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June 12, 2009: American Jews and Israel
"Criticism of Israel indicates engagement with Israel. American Jews should be worried when their children stop criticizing Israel," says Professor Steven Cohen, a sociologist of American Jewry on the faculty at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.
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June 12, 2009: Extended Interviews: American Jews and Israel
Read more of the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly interviews with American Jews about Israel.
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May 29, 2009: Painting a Jewish Memory Book
Jewish memory is stored and transmitted in the paintings of Mayer Kirshenblatt, who with the help of his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has preserved his own memories and the collective memories of a Polish Jewish community before World War II.
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May 15, 2009: Pope’s Mideast Trip Wrap-Up
It was a week of prayers and pleas for peace and gestures of reconciliation to all sides in the Holy Land.
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May 8, 2009: Religion and Peace in the Middle East
"I don't think any of us are under any illusions that we're going to solve the peace problem, but we also realize that you can't have peace without religious leaders," says former US ambassador Tony Hall.
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April 24, 2009: Holocaust by Bullets
Father Patrick Desbois has documented the murder of 1.5 million Jews who were shot dead and buried throughout Ukraine by the Nazis. Finding the mass graves has been "a sacred mission."
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Memory and remembrance are central to Judaism, says artist Mark Podwal, whose documentary HOUSE OF LIFE, a loving appreciation of the old Jewish cemetery in Prague, includes the Pinkas Synagogue's memorial to Czech Holocaust victims.
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April 3, 2009: Walzer on Passover’s Exodus Story
It is the task of every generation to retell the Exodus story of deliverance and freedom and to try to make the world better, says Michael Walzer, author of EXODUS AND REVOLUTION.
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March 20, 2009: Jewish Reaction to Madoff Scandal
"The Talmud tells us when we go up to heaven and give an accounting of ourselves the very first question the Almighty asks us is whether we conducted our business affairs with integrity and honesty."
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March 6, 2009: Purim in Jerusalem
Photographer Yankl Conzen was not Jewish, but he embraced Jewish culture and history. His poignant photographs of Purim depict children from one of Jerusalem's Orthodox neighborhoods.
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