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Swastika-branding perpetrators sentenced

Hate Crime involves culture, symbolismNavajo TimesPage A7, 2/8/12 By Diane J. SchmidtFollow-up to Branded and ScarredHate-crime victim's...
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Historic win for Native Americans in NM redistricting, Jewish legal precedent

While this week the NM Supreme Court hearsDemocrats and Republicanswrangle in appeals over a judge's ruling on New Mexico House redistricting,...
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Chanukah and my mother's own invention

Chanukah is inextricably bound up with memories of my mother. Fifty years later, I draw from a deep and refreshing well remembering the nights when...
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At Girls Basketball Tip-Off Classic at the Pit, oy vey is Yiddish for yáadilá

A slightly different print version of this story first appeared in the Navajo Times 11/23/11, C-1,Sports Commentary:A rookie covers the Tip-Off...
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Rosh Hashanah listen to the rain, the dew, the winds

listen. This week at the new moon marks Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year, 5772, in the Jewish calendar. Over the course of the year,...
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Interview with Alyson Richman, author of The Lost Wife.

The resilience of the human heart – an Interview with Alyson Richman, author of The Lost Wife, a love story about an artist who survives WWII...
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Precious Objects, A Story of Diamonds by Alicia Oltuski

Alicia Oltuski’s Precious Objects, A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life is an entertaining and illuminating story of the diamond...
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey by Stephen Fried Opens the 2011 JCC Book Fest

Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West, by Stephen FriedAuthor Stephen Fried will speak at the JCC Book...
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Creating a Zone for Peace: Another Look at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

As the youngest child in my own family, who wants everyone to make peace, I couldn’t stand the arguing. It was one of the reasons I tuned out...
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Israel Cinderella at the Ball

So it’s been an especially vexing summer for everyone listening to all the debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At some point you...
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