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18/06/2023 - 11:29

Václav R. was one of hundreds of thousands of people persecuted as ‘Gypsies’ between 1933 and 1945 as a direct result of racial policies... →

12/06/2023 - 13:30

Winston Churchill was always fascinated by commando forces, ever since his time in the South African wars (Boer War) when he was captured.... →

02/06/2023 - 14:54

The German effort to find and murder every Jew was a vast undertaking encompassing three continents. The Germans and their collaborators... →

14/05/2023 - 14:02

For the past quarter century, leaders of the Palestinian Authority have been insistent that their people were innocent victims of a... →

06/05/2023 - 15:09

This schizophrenia finds expression in two recent books that read like they were written on different planets. Omri Boehm’s Haifa... →

30/04/2023 - 12:25

At a time when coffee remains one of the few things that the anxious sleeper can look forward to in the morning (What is life without it... →

23/04/2023 - 14:10

At the same time, about 900,000 Jews and their family members still live in post-Soviet countries, despite certain negative demographic... →

17/04/2023 - 13:31

The jury is still arguing over whether abandoning hunting-gathering and settling down constituted a breakthrough by a one-of-a-kind species... →

04/04/2023 - 19:27

The way in which Jewish comedians and satirists train their lenses on the Jewish community has significantly evolved over successive... →

29/03/2023 - 13:20

Charles eventually joined Microsoft, Windows became the backbone of Microsoft, and the thinking we did after that demo helped set the... →

24/03/2023 - 12:54

Eventually, someone would remember that they knew the winning answer: "infinity!" But the smugness was short-lived. Another kid – with a... →

19/03/2023 - 14:35

As Simone de Beauvoir writes in her magisterial study of the topic, La vieillesse (1970) – translated in the UK as Old Age,... →

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