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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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Nurturing Mumbai Dreams
by Rahel Musleah
Young volunteers from around the world are coming to Mumbai to work with their Indian Jewish peers toward a quintessentially Jewish goal: feeding the hungry—literally, emotionally and educationally.
Wider World
Diarna, Our Homes
by Rahel Musleah
Diarna explores Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa with satellite imagery, archival and contemporary photography, scholarship and oral history.
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In Vienna, Missing No More
by Netana Markovitz
Artist Ruth Beckerman conceived of a way to complete the humiliating scene of a Jew lying face down scrubbing the floor, brush in hand, by including looped video
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A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
by Esther Hecht
The 1,300-foot bridge in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Hunan Province is at a dizzying height of more than 1,000 feet.
Wider World
Yom Kippur in Tehran
by Amy Guttman
It is just after dawn on October 2, 2014—two days before the start of Yom Kippur—and Tehran’s notoriously bad traffic is already clogging the roads,
Wider World
Europe Through the Lens of Anti-Semitism
by Abraham H. Foxman
Today, many historic threats have diminished or disappeared. There is no Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini to threaten European Jewry. There is no government or society seeking to annihilate
Wider World
England: Worries in a Golden Age
by Miriam Shaviv
Natalie, a mother of three, was chatting to a worker at a children’s play center in the heart of Jewish London when a party of
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France: Kippot Under Baseball Caps
by Natasha Lehrer
France has the largest Jewish and Muslim populations living side by side outside Israel. Over the past six decades, tensions between the two have increased.

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