What ISIS Really Wants

The Atlantic By Graeme Wood  What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders…

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The Last Trial: A Great-Grandmother, Auschwitz, and the Arc of Justice

The New Yorker  Elizabeth Kolbert  Oskar Gröning, who has become known as “the bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” was born on June 10, 1921, in Nienburg, a town about thirty miles south of…

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70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

On January 27, 2015 we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi German concentraction and extermination camp Auschwitz. On this day the whole world was listening to…

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It’s Disrespectful for the Shoah’s Victims If All We Teach is Death

 Jewish News Online By Scott Saunders, Founder and Chair of March of the Living UK How do you understand the un-understandable, explain the inexplicable? Seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz,…

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Parent of MOTL Alumni Talks About Being the Mom of an IDF Soldier

(Names have been deleted at the request of the family) Following are the remarks delivered at a community rally in support of Israel. I’m the mother of a Lone Soldier. The…

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March of the Living Budapest

March of the Living Budapest 30,000+ marching to train station where 600 participants will board train (of the…

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President Obama quotes Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust survivor who participated in the March of the Living, at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner

Remarks by the President at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, California – May 7, 2014 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you…

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March of the Living teens experience Shabbat in Poland

This past weekend has been one of the most inspirational weekends I have ever experienced. On Friday…

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Making Amends

Mosaic By Robert Eli Rubinstein A mysterious request leads the Canadian-born son of a Holocaust survivor back to the old country. “There’s someone here to see you.” “Who is it?” “Her name is Magda…

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The IDF Remembers the Fallen and Protects the Living

“And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to…

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