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Hebrew books to help Israeli-Americans preserve their heritage

Naomi Western, who works with the Jewish Agency for Israel, worries that her two young children may lose the connection to their Israeli heritage once they start attending local public schools. Joining more than 2,000 other families nationwide, Western has enrolled her family in Sifriyat Pijama B\’America to keep her children connected to the Hebrew-speaking culture she grew up with.

Scottish municipality bans Israeli books

A Scottish municipality has banned from its libraries books by Israeli authors and that were printed or published in Israel. The West Dunbartonshire Council, consisting of towns and villages west of Glasgow, ordered new books by Israeli authors to be banned from the council\’s libraries, according to reports.

Get ready to sing . . . Hatikvah!

In 1886, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia, wrote the words to Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah.\” Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, wrote the melody

The Other Sides

There are weeks when history is written, and there are weeks, like this past one, when it is rewritten.

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