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A grave in Mt. Herzl military belonging to an anonymous IDF soldier. (photo: Segal)
Memorial Day: An open letter to Israel’s defense minister from a bereaved brother
Every year, the defense minister sends a letter to bereaved families, reminding them that the death of their loved ones did not happen in vain. Today, as Israel marks Memorial Day, the brother of Tamar Ben Eliahu, who was killed in a Jerusalem bus bombing during the Second Intifada, has decided to speak out against a…
By Haokets May 4, 2014
My great-grandmother: Orthodox and anti-Zionist
The Jewish diaspora didn’t always march lockstep behind Israel. My great-grandmother–who escaped pogroms and lost family in the Holocaust–was an anti-Zionist. Rampant anti-Semitism drove my great-grandmother from Eastern Europe. There’d been pogroms; there were restrictions on the type of work Jews could do. My family made their way to New York City with little more…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat April 18, 2012
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