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By Wikipedia Hillel Kook, also known as Peter Bergson, was a Revisionist Zionist activist, politician, and prominent member of the Irgun. Articles about Hillel Kook
Dec 9, 2010
Two rabbis remove names from no-rent edict
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Two of the 47 rabbis who signed a religious edict forbidding Israeli Jews to rent to non-Jews, withdrew their names from the statement on…
Jul 16, 2010
A Bird’s-eye view of the Middle East
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Kai Bird grew up in interesting times. He lived in lands where castigating others as “Jew-lovers” was normal, where Western blue bloods dined with…
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Feb 5, 2010
Who is a hero?
By YOCHEVED MIRIAM RUSSO
A Voice CalledBy Yossi KatzGefen | 272 pages | $15Philadelphia-born Yossi Katz made aliya in 1978. After spending 30 years as a Jewish educator, he…
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Dec 10, 2009
Cinema Judaica
By Hannah Brown
If it's Hanukka, then it's time for the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. The 11th festival will run this year at the Jerusalem Cinematheque from…
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Dec 6, 2009
Bostoner Rebbe Levi Yitzhak Horowitz dies at 88
By Matthew Wagner
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Horowitz, better known as the Bostoner Rebbe, passed away Saturday after struggling to recover from the cardiac arrest he suffered…
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Dec 6, 2009
See no evil
By Hannah Brown
"American Jews and the American Jewish community live with big taboos when it comes to what was happening during the years that the Jews were…
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Dec 3, 2009
Grapevine: Communication central
By Greer Fay Cashman
n IS NUMBER 8 Rehov Harav Kook becoming the new communications center in Jerusalem? It would seem so, judging by the number of…
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Jul 16, 2009
Cooking from the heart
By Sybil Kaplan
Ticho House was one of the first houses in Jerusalem built outside the Old City walls, in the second half of the 19th century. Anna Ticho, an artist,…
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Jul 14, 2009
7 Kook St. - Luxury apartments in the heart of JerusalemThe luxurious residential project "7 Kook St." is located in the city center, at the heart of Jerusalem's leisure and cultural areas. "7 Kook St."…
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Jun 29, 2009
A tale of 2 Norwegian Nobel Prize winners for Literature
By RAFAEL MEDOFF
Norway recently assumed the chairmanship of an international task force on Holocaust education. Yet the Norwegian government also recently launched a…
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Jun 17, 2009
Wyman Institute head slams Yad Vashem for omitting info on Bergson Group
By tory cheifetz
Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, has a bone to pick with Yad Vashem over its portrayal of…
May 7, 2009
The First Word: A day in Jerusalem
By Yehudah Mirsky
The sword without and terror within (Deuteronomy 32:25)Nobody who has lived in Jerusalem in recent years needs any educating about the sword from…
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Apr 22, 2009
Hearst and the Holocaust
By RAFAEL MEDOFF
Three rare paintings once owned by media magnate William Randolph Hearst were last week returned to the family of the German Jews who were forced by…
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Apr 19, 2009
FDR, Bergson and the Holocaust - on stage
By rafael medoff
In the 1940s, your father and grandfather were involved in protests against the Roosevelt administration's abandonment of European Jewry. Rabbi…
Apr 16, 2009
The Jewish hush-hush policy
By ALEXANDER ZVIELLI
Why We WatchedBy Theodore S. Hamerow. W.W. Norton576 pages; $35. No one doubts that during the Holocaust, American Jews wanted to help their…
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Apr 16, 2009
Local Theater: Never again... perhaps
By ASI GAL
My childhood friends and I had a tradition of always attending the national memorial services at our old elementary school. For Holocaust Memorial…
Apr 7, 2009
British mandate Pessah in Acre Prison
By Dr. RAFAEL MEDOFF
On Pessah morning in 1946, Mrs. Margaret Ashton Stimson Lindsley crossed the moat surrounding the Acre Prison in British Mandatory Palestine. She…
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Mar 19, 2009
Associate with the ideals
By RAFAEL LEVI
Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, criticized movie censors for allowing the word vagina to appear in movies. "It is a dirty, insulting word," he…
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Mar 5, 2009
Essay: Purim, America 1944
By Rafael Medoff
Sixty-five years ago this week, American Jews gathered in their synagogues to celebrate Purim, the holiday recalling how a Jewish woman used her…
Feb 26, 2009
Jerusalem Affairs: Complex dispute
By Etgar Lefkovits
The Jerusalem Municipality is on the verge of canceling a controversial decade-old agreement with the YMCA over city taxes, city officials said this… | Selected Articles |
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