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Opinion The Beijing Olympics looks a lot like Nazi Germany’s
For Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Olympics represent an opportunity to turn the world’s attention away from the Uyghur genocide.
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Opinion We can’t fail the Uyghurs as the world failed us
As the Olympics begin, what is at stake is not medals, but the world’s commitment to Never Again. It is hard to fathom that 77 years after the end of the Holocaust, a potentially genocidal state is hosting the Olympic Games. As the athletes parade into the Beijing stadium for the opening ceremonies, the Chinese…
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News The downhill duo: Skiing siblings to represent Israel at Winter Olympics
There’s a rivalry brewing between the two skiers competing for Israel in the Winter Olympics — a sibling rivalry. Barnabás Szőllős and his sister Noa Szőllős, born in Hungary, raised in Austria and trained by their Hungarian-Israeli father, will hit the slopes next week wearing blue and white. Both will compete in all five individual…
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News The Bat Mitzvah Tutor of Beijing
Most people don’t know what to picture when I tell them that I was very active in the Beijing Jewish community when I lived in China from 2006 to 2010. They can’t seem to envision what Jewish-in-China looks like. Is it a minyan of all Chinese Jews? A Chabad rabbi wrangling businessmen and college kids…
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Life Tiananmen Square: Testifying to a Miracle of Liberation
It may be a light unto a whole different set of nations but in the capital of China the Hanukkah lights are shining bright. At the Zhengyang archery tower at the south end of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, a (very large) Hanukkiah is being lit to commemorate another people at another time who threw off the…
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