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      <title>After the massacre, two heroes at Bondi look back … and forward</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We’ve heard about antisemitism around the world but thought there was nothing to worry about here,” says Australian Ronny Krite, who was on the scene on Dec. 14 in the midst of mayhem.]]></description>
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      <title>Center stage at Yad Vashem: A parental love story</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Drawing from testimonies, artifacts and histories, it has opened “Touching Memory Theater,” a new project that brings Holocaust remembrance to the stage.]]></description>
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      <title>Why is it easier to defeat a big power like Iran than the Palestinians?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MK Ohad Tal speaks to JNS about Oct. 7, the miracles Israel experienced during the Swords of Iron war, and the Jewish state's place in the world.]]></description>
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      <title>Bringing us all home: A repatriation saga</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I can’t help but perceive the actions of these past few weeks as somewhat biblical in nature.]]></description>
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      <title>Revelations great and small: Bringing Shavuot home</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Compelling evidence that, like at Sinai, a single moment of Godly revelation begets another and another and another.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 11:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Make it matzah ball (though wait till after Passover)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Nobody was doing this for Jewish food, and I felt it really needed to be done. So, I thought, why not me?” says Sarah Nathan.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Eight reasons why this Passover is different from all others ...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Down through the ages, Jews have gathered with family and friends on the seder night to relive their people’s most dramatic and defining moment in history. This year, it’s especially so.]]></description>
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      <title>Eighty years after liberation, both the anguish and the resilience live on</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“What’s amazing is how, despite these horrendous losses, they just got up and started all over again; there’s so much we can learn from that,” says Yael Richler-Friedman, who directs education for Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.]]></description>
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      <title>Around the world for the eight nights of the ‘Festival of Lights’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From Tunis, Ethiopia and Holon to Los Angeles and New York, the makings of an oil-rich, taste-tingling Chanukah that touches on many Jewish traditions.]]></description>
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      <title>Helping Israel’s children through this war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“After so many rounds of rockets and having to run into the shelter, you learn to see the underlying symptoms in each child.”]]></description>
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