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  • Making a Difference in Nepal
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    Making a Difference in Nepal
    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. 

  • Keeping the Faith in Vilnius
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    Keeping the Faith in Vilnius
    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.

  • Passage to the Pyrenees
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    Passage to the Pyrenees
    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.

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Encountering Fate at Babi Yar
by Marvin Kalb
On the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution a writer ponders what would have happened if his mother had not left Kiev in 1914, fleeing the omnipresent anti-Semitism.
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Tevel b’Tzedek Offers a Helping Hand in Nepal
by Rahel Musleah
Villages in Nepal are remote, but Tevel's volunteers persevere: They hike mountains, share unheated cabins and outdoor squat toilets and use water from village taps.
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A Medieval Haggadah’s Long Journey Home
by Margarita Gokun Silver
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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Wider World
The History and Heartbreak of Paris’s Camondo Museum
by David Laskin
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.
Wider World
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
Wider World
Wider World
Vilna’s Yiddish Kitchen Reborn
by Ellen Cassedy
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.

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