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A genealogist in her 20s sounds like an oxymoron. After all, doesn’t the word evoke a white-bearded bespectacled professor surrounded by dusty books and a quill?
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For months, grateful people have been sending letters to one man, thanking him for helping bring them out of the isolation and lockdown of...
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In the midst of the firestorm of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli propaganda that has spread throughout the media, official spokespeople for the Israeli government have...
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Benny Gantz, the former general who is heading the new Chosen L’Yisrael–Israeli Resilience Party, hasn’t made all of his positions known quite yet, but...
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