In recent years, too many in the African-American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare.

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I am very hesitant to write what I am about to say. There is no doubt that some will feel that “sweeping the dirt under

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Dr. Shoshana Klein Poupko is joining the Ma’ayanot faculty this September in the newly created role of dean of students. Dr. Poupko is a dynamic,

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I’m going to be honest with you here, because we’ve known each other a long time. Well, actually, I don’t know you. You know me,