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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Obama's Anti-Genocide Fighter Seeks U.N. Office Space?

By:

Rafael Medoff

Eight months after President Barack Obama appointed Samantha Power to direct the new Atrocities Prevention Board, it still has no website, phone number or email. Despite the fanfare and high-sounding pronouncements accompanying its creation — and despite all the fresh atrocities in Syria, Sudan and elsewhere — the board still does not exist.

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What Would Students Protest Today?

By:

Cheryl Halpern

Twenty-five years ago, I joined hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans on the National Mall to draw attention to the plight of Soviet Jews. But this movement did not come to the Jewish community speedily.

Kvetch 'N Kvell

I have now lived in freedom for almost half of my life but who I am as a person, as a parent and a Jew will always be defined by the word “refusenik.”