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13/03/2013 - 13:12

The reasons for this disregard ultimately lie in the vicissitudes of Josephus' own life and fate. The son of a Jerusalem priestly family,... →

07/03/2013 - 14:26

Stalin is a hidden hero, and this status is part of the inherently vague nature of Russia's post-communist statehood and national identity... →

02/03/2013 - 16:22

Israel gives clear preference to the Orthodox when it comes to determining Jewish identity, as in the "Who is a Jew?" debate. Only Orthodox... →

24/02/2013 - 15:34

The WHO stops short of saying the chemicals actually caused the illnesses but did say that in some cases, the evidence was very strong. The... →

18/02/2013 - 13:35

Although these stories are set in New York, the quintessential modern metropolis, it is not the new city’s radiance and abundance that are... →

12/02/2013 - 12:15

"Herzl's works are a must in every Hebrew household," Tel Aviv's M. Newman Publishing announced when it advertised its new edition of the... →

06/02/2013 - 14:58

Viewers have become familiar with Holocaust imagery since early depictions of it on television and film. One landmark example was the 1978... →

31/01/2013 - 16:47

That Jews and words are inextricably intertwined is well known. Jews talk a lot and they are disputatious. From the time of Abraham they... →

23/01/2013 - 16:34

Hounded by debts and creditors, letters and threats, and exhausted by the cramped struggle to maintain his “miserable, limping survival,”... →

16/01/2013 - 14:28

The tendency of Birthright participants to rely on cliched adjectives like “amazing” and “awesome” to describe their first Israel... →

10/01/2013 - 16:10

Led by Professor Alex Mintz, an Israeli expert in political decision-making and currently dean of the Lauder School of Government at IDC,... →

04/01/2013 - 15:00

But then the masses arrived, and the new immigrants felt that their sheer number enabled them to ignore the Israeli response. Slowly but... →

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