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The ancient Romans were an ambitious lot. At the zenith of their empire, they controlled a good swath of the world’s prime real estate, from London and Iberia all the way to Cairo and Jerusalem. All around the Mediterranean rim, the heart of Roman territory, you stumble across ruins of this once-mighty civilization. The Roman […]

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The New Israel Fund has a well-publicized “global BDS” policy, which condones Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israelis living over the Green Line. This naive policy creates a dangerous slippery slope, since such BDS could be used against the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, Jews praying at the Western Wall, Hadassah Hospital, the Mount […]

Memorial plaques placed on the walls of synagogues serve as touchstones for the bereaved. But a new website takes those plaques to the next level by not only allowing people to create them in cyberspace but also to write tributes to their loved ones, as well as post pictures and eventually videos. Michael Schimmel, founder […]

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