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The Jewish History Behind Cabo Verde's Cinderella Run

New to the World Cup this year, the Cabo Verde team astounded soccer fans world over with their performance. Though they lost to the Argentinian team after three ties, the players received a hero's welcome on their return home. They have put their small country on the map. Unexpectedly, they have also brought to light […]

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Her Parents Lost Everything. They Never Lost Their Ability to Love

Dr. Naomi Vilko has spent nearly half a century helping people heal from trauma. Since beginning her career in psychiatry in 1978, she has treated patients struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, depression, and the invisible wounds left by tragedy. Yet long before she understood trauma as a physician, she lived with it as the […]

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The Anthropologist Deconstructing Antizionism
A Yale-trained anthropologist, Adam Louis-Klein emerged from the Amazon to find his academic world celebrating a hate movement. He is using his background in anthropology to fight antizionism.

Adam Louis-Klein was a left-wing Yale philosophy grad, conducting fieldwork among indigenous Amazonians for his PhD in anthropology. Completely cut off from the world, he finally got online, and the horrors of October 7th hit him like a freight train -- and what he saw in his own academic circles shook him even more. Today […]

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From Vietnamese Refugee to Israeli Soldier to Florida Restaurateur
Ai Lien fled Vietnam as a baby, grew up in Israel, served on the Lebanese border, and now owns four kosher restaurants in Florida.

She was five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, watching for Hezbollah. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her unusual story. […]

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Venezuela: When Your Enemy Is Buried Under the Rubble

Venezuela called Israel a genocidal, Nazi-like state. Is Israel right in sending a search and rescue team to help them?

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