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Rafael Medoff

African-American pilots over Auschwitz

Published on January 17, 2008

Last week, President Bush remarked that the United States should have bombed the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Next week, Americans will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggle for Civil Rights. What do these two occasions have in common? More than one might think.

Sympathy for the suffering goes to the dogs

Published on May 17, 2007

Kristof knows that one way to change government policy is through an outraged public, but getting the American public to care about millions of nameless genocide victims in faraway Africa is no easy task. "What we need," he proposes, "is more troubled consciences -- pricked, perhaps, by a Darfur puppy with big eyes and floppy ears."

Pelosi’s father bucked FDR and Truman to aid Jews and Israel

Published on April 19, 2007

When Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, stepped to the podium at a Knesset dinner during her visit to Israel earlier this month, she made history in more ways than one.

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December 19-26, 2008

Cover of December 19-26, 2008 Jewish JournalIt's beginning to look a lot like you know what, and that's OK, says comedy star Elon Gold. Also: complete coverage of the Madoff scandal, tales of family menorahs, latke recipes, Orit Arfa gets her t-shirt circumcised, and Rob Eshman wishes Jews believed in hell, so Bernie Madoff would go there.

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