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Israeli university promotes inclusion, diversity with unusual approach

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Sponsored By Elana Sztokman Tal Levine is the first person in her family to go to college. Her mother, a child...

Traumatized Israelis living near Gaza turn to unusual source for help

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Sponsored By Elana Sztokman SDEROT, Israel — Whenever Efraim Rozenfeld hears a plane flying overhead, his body tenses up. The 52-year-old father of seven and grandfather...

Germany agrees to record $1.4 billion in annual Holocaust reparations

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Asaf Elia-Shalev Conditions didn’t seem favorable in early May as Stuart Eizenstat entered annual negotiations with the German government over reparations for the estimated...

A new destination for troubled Jewish youth trying to kick drug dependency: Cyprus

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Sponsored content By Larry Luxner Young people with substance-abuse dependencies often face a stark challenge when trying to overcome their problem: Any kind of lapse is...

Looming Jewish teacher shortage prompts new accelerated training in well-known Jerusalem program

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Sponsored content By Elana Sztokman When Rabbi David Wallach was looking for an institution to help him become a better Jewish day school...

At this unique yearlong Torah study program in Jerusalem, students are encouraged to ask...

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Sponsored By Judith Sudilovsky Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive...

Event in Berlin marks one of Germany’s largest-ever gatherings for its ex-Soviet Jewish community

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Sponsored By Larry Luxner BERLIN — It was hard to overlook the symbolism: the city that once was the epicenter of Nazi Germany hosting a massive...

How one special Pink Day helps save and support cancer patients

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Sponsored By Eric Berger  When Rachel Wojnilower was an undergraduate at American University in Washington, D.C., she did all kinds of activities with her...

For one group of friends separated by geography, a single Israel experience builds lifelong...

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Sponsored By Larry Luxner When Ashley Inbar of Portland, Maine, got married in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the Jamaican beach resort of Ocho Rios in...

This unusual Israeli podcast covers everything from sentient AI to extending the human lifespan

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Sponsored By Renee Ghert-Zand If an alien spacecraft landed in Prof. Avi Loeb’s backyard tomorrow, he would readily step on, leave his family...