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The Rwandan Community Guided by Jewish Values

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The Man Who Coined "Genocide" Would Be Horrified by This

The Lemkin Family and European Jewish Association are calling for an investigation of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Inc. In 1944, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer and survivor, coined the term “genocide” to describe the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Lemkin, who lost 49 members of his family, including his […]

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The Jewish History Behind Cabo Verde's Cinderella Run

New to the World Cup this year, the Cabo Verde team astounded soccer fans world over with their performance. Though they lost to the Argentinian team after three ties, the players received a hero's welcome on their return home. They have put their small country on the map. Unexpectedly, they have also brought to light […]

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The Woman Who Hid 100 Jews in Her Attic
Tina Strobos built a secret attic hideout the Nazis never found, stole identity cards, and survived eight Gestapo raids. She lived ten minutes from Anne Frank and never knew.

Tina Strobos was born in Amsterdam in 1920 to a socialist, atheist family that treated resistance as second nature. They were freethinking activists with generations of women who had sheltered refugees long before the Nazis darkened Europe. By 16 she was studying medicine in a comfortable Amsterdam home, intent on becoming a psychiatrist. But at […]

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“I Don’t Want to Work for a Jew”
A Cornell student’s antisemitic rejection to a job interview triggered a firestorm, and a wave of Jewish pride.

"Not interested in working for a Jew." That's what a Cornell student wrote back to Gabe Einhorn's company, two weeks after applying for a summer internship. Gabe, 24, wears a kippah proudly in every video he posts online. He never expected hatred like this to find him. Gabe and his brother Aiden started a company […]

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