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23 March 2023

1 Nisan 5783

Failed Unions

Arab Americans were the test cases for mass surveillance and we let it happen

byJustine el-Khazen

Cape Town’s Old Synagogue, the first synagogue built in South Africa in 1863, which since 2000 has housed the South African Jewish Museum

The Future of Jewish South Africa

Three neighborhoods offer different visions of the community’s place in the ‘Rainbow Nation,’ three decades after the end of apartheid

byJohn Besche

Destroyed buildings in Mariupol in March 2022

Escape From Mariupol

A Holocaust survivor and her family in hiding and on the run

byEdward Serotta

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Nazir 58

In today’s Talmud page, on the removal of hair

March 22, 2023

Edward Serotta last wrote for us about the late Ukrainian photographer Maks Levin, who fell while documenting the early days of the Russian invasion.

The Future of Jewish South Africa

Three neighborhoods offer different visions of the community’s place in the ‘Rainbow Nation,’ three decades after the end of apartheid

byJohn Besche

Escape From Mariupol

A Holocaust survivor and her family in hiding and on the run

byEdward Serotta

Israel’s Genius, and Its Bad Shepherds

The Jewish state is an idea, which is why it will survive its present crisis

byBernard-Henri Lévy

Indonesia’s Jews Come Out

In the world’s most populous Muslim country, a new generation of Jews strives for visibility

byJohannes Nugroho

$54B

Amount of money the manufacturers of electric vehicle batteries have earmarked for the building of plants in America

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Liselotte Karoline Rosenstiel, in one of the two passport photos contained in her file

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