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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.

The Monastery of Poblet, not far from Barcelona, provides refuge, preservation and access to a rare illuminated Haggadah.

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Guatemala Opens First Holocaust Museum in Central America

by Ilan Ben Zion

Museo del Holocausto opened with the temporary exhibit that explores the mass shootings of Russian Jews and Roma by Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1944.

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The History and Heartbreak of Paris’s Camondo Museum

by David Laskin

A Paris townhouse showcases the wealth and the demise of a Sephardic family.

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Honoring Alfred Dreyfus in His Hometown

by Rachel Schwartzberg

An 885-foot-tall granite statue was unveiled in Jardin Steinbach, a public garden near the Dreyfus family's former home in the Alsace region of France.

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Keeping the Faith in Vilnius

by Ellen Cassedy

Today, Lithuania is home to only 4,000 Jews, yet several women in the small Jewish community are working hard not only to preserve their heritage but to share

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Vilna’s Yiddish Kitchen Reborn

by Ellen Cassedy

During World War II, Fania Lewando’s restaurant and cooking school in Vilna were destroyed, along with her community’s synagogues, libraries, theaters and schools.