Hirsch Wolofsky never lost faith in the power of dreams - Montreal Gazette

Hirsch Wolofsky never lost faith in the power of dreams
Montreal Gazette
Many Jewish immigrants had fled the instability of Eastern Europe, where intellectuals were rapidly becoming revolutionaries, standing up to the old regimes, fighting for basic human rights. Many Jews were among those intellectuals.

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Against the future: inside the Jewish anti-internet rally - The Verge

Against the future: inside the Jewish anti-internet rally
The Verge
But me and my fellow passengers on the 7 train weren't attending a baseball game: we were there, along with 40000-ish ultra-Orthodox Jews, to learn about the internet. Since I'm currently (for non-religious reasons) not using the internet for a year, ...

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This Day, May 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)

This Day, May 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
Until the English knew this they would not when or where to make their first move. Dr. Hector Nunes, a secret Jew living in England provided the information about the Spanish departure. The Jews may have played a small part in one of the great turning ...

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Plain Truths That Islamophobes Hate - American Muslim

Plain Truths That Islamophobes Hate
American Muslim
This concept developed at America's inception when George Washington made the solemn pledge in 1790 to the fledgling Jewish community, 'To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance'. Undoubtedly the sustained efforts of many visionaries over ...

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Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction? - Moment Magazine

Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?
Moment Magazine
Her forceful surmise that all language is a plastic medium, to be shaped by the writer in the same way that a sculptor shapes materials, in the same way that a painter shapes light and form, deeply influenced Hemingway, for one, whose own influence on ...

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The Tale of the Dragoman - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal
The Tale of the Dragoman
Wall Street Journal
Like the late man of letters John Gross, whose lovely 2002 memoir, "The Double Thread," describes growing up Jewish and English in London, Mr. Lewis evokes his Jewish-English childhood with great tenderness. An early passion for book collecting and a ...

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Op-Ed: A.K. Chesterton and the New World Order - DigitalJournal.com


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Op-Ed: A.K. Chesterton and the New World Order
DigitalJournal.com
The Parkes Institute is named after James Parkes (1896-1981), a clergyman who was a devotee of what has been called the enthymeme of Jewish history, namely that in all conflicts between Jew and Gentile, the Gentile is always in the wrong - that's the ...

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The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus: An ... - San Diego Jewish World

The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus: An ...
San Diego Jewish World
This process denies the victim the rights and prerogatives enjoyed by other members in good standing of the international community, particularly the right to make one's voice heard. The side that initiates a campaign of delegitimization endeavors to ...

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Montreal: One Square Mile of Canada - BBC News


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Montreal: One Square Mile of Canada
BBC News
Today, it celebrates a cosmopolitan city with its array of little villages, from the Quartier Chinois, or Chinese quarter, to Little Italy and Portugal, along with strong remnants of an historic Jewish quarter. But French-only street signs draw the ...

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Ed Miliband 'social mobility' speech in full - Politics.co.uk

Ed Miliband 'social mobility' speech in full
Politics.co.uk
I am only standing here today because the British education system helped my dad break through barriers. A sixteen year-old Jewish boy who had left his mother and sister in hiding and fled here from the Nazis with his dad. When he got off the boat from ...

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