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On the Zikim beach attacked by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, Israeli survivors are learning to surf their way back ...
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A Hot Pink Billboard. A Global Stage. A Defining Moment.
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Next Year in Jerusalem…
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The Quiet Power of Joy
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San Diegans Bear Witness to October 7 Survivors
By Donna Pinto & Tamar Siegel At a time when historical truth is too often challenged or blurred, bearing witness to lived experience ...
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- America’s oldest synagogue closed. Then an unlikely group tended its cemetery.In 1833, Herald of the Times, a Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper, reported that the remains of Mrs. Rebecca Lopez had been brought from New York by steamboat and placed inside Touro Synagogue. Dedicated in 1763, the building is now recognized as the nation’s oldest surviving synagogue. Newport had once been home to a thriving colonial... […]
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