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  • Making a Difference in Nepal
    Israeli Scene Wider World
    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
    Wider World
    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
    Wider World
    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.

Wider World
A Bar Mitzvah Ceremony in Uganda
by Hilary Danailova
The Miller and Morrison family of New Jersey celebrated son Logan's milestone in an Abayudaya synagogue in Uganda.
Wider World
Chiune Sugihara: Heroism in the Face of Evil
by Lisa Hostein
Japanese officials have launched a new campaign to bring attention to Sugihara's courageous actions to save Jews during the Holocaust.
Wider World
Israelis Embrace Their Moroccan Cultural Roots
by Yardena Schwartz
Israelis of Moroccan descent are traveling to the country their parents left behind, exploring their heritage and helping to sustain the remnants of Morocco's once-thriving Jewish community.
Wider World
Warsaw Teachers Defy New ‘Holocaust’ Law in Open Letter
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Decrying that "Polish complicity in the Shoah needs to be taught," the educators and Holocaust archivists pledge to challenge the law by speaking out.
Wider World
Text of Letter from Piotr Laskowski and Sebastian Matuszewski
This letter challenges the new Polish law seeking to criminalize speech linking the Polish nation to Holocaust-era crimes.
Wider World
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.
Wider World
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.
Wider World
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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