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Making a Difference in Nepal
In Tevel B’Tzedek, Israeli Micha Odenheimer has created a Jewish Peace Corps that brings Jewish aid and ideals to Nepal, one of the world’s most impoverished nations.

Volunteers from Tevel B’Tzedek enhance Nepalis’ skills as farmers, educators and community leaders.
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Keeping the Faith in Vilnius
Before World War II, the streets of Lithuania’s capital were thronged with Jews. Today, the country is home to 4,000 Jews committed to preserving their heritage.

Before World War II, the streets of Lithuania’s capital were thronged with Jews. Today, the country is home to 4,000 Jews committed to preserving their heritage.
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Passage to the Pyrenees
Jews and others trekked over the treacherous mountain range to flee from the Nazis. These days, people are following in their footsteps.

Jews and others trekked over the treacherous mountain range to flee from the Nazis. These days, people are following in their footsteps.

Exile, exodus and redemption. this cyclical pattern repeats itself in Jewish history. One unique aspect of the story of the redemption and homecoming of the

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Operation Let’s Be Friends Ever wondered what soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces truly think of their service—of tours of duty in Gaza and the

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Cuba Through a Half-Open Door

by Andrée Aelion Brooks

The plain concrete building with a faded pink-and-blue exterior along a commercial street in Mantanzas, a small city on the northern coast of Cuba, looked

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In the Same Boat

by David W. Weiss

My son Jeremy and I have been hiking in the Judean Hills since the early hours and are taking a break on a shelf of

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Honoring Our Ancestors

by Andrée Aelion Brooks

Dan Ben-Canaan slowly lifts the rumpled, yellowed sheet of paper and shows it to his audience. A professor of research and writing methodology at Heilongjiang

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Celebrating the Diaspora Although much of Jewish history mourns the diaspora and the Jewish people’s disbursement to the four corners of the earth, one literary

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An Israeli on the Road

by Melanie Lidman

The people he has met across the world have called him Don Quixote on Wheels, Buns of Steel and Crazy With Dream. “Sometimes they call

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Letter from Saskatchewan: Little Houses on the Prairie

by Isa Milman

Sometimes a gift appears in disguise and our challenge is to recognize the little miracle that has just fallen into our lap. This is the