(AP) — A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece.
Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold after a…
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Klimt painting that saved its subject from Nazis sold for record price in auction
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Morning Mail: Trump defends Saudi prince over Khashoggi killing, the tragic death of Gail Karran, new Roblox restrictions | Australia news
Morning everyone. As the long-awaited debate on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files began in the US Congress, Donald Trump hosted Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office and defended his guest when questioned over the…
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David Ran Toward Goliath with Tehillim on His Lips: A Call to Bnei Torah
The same Torah fire that keeps you in the beit midrash can become the courage that guards it. Every yeshiva bachur knows the story by heart. A shepherd boy, still smelling of sheep, spends his nights composing Tehillim and his days guarding the…
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When Jewish teens commit violence, Israel must enforce the law- even if it hurts
Hilltop Youth attacks aren’t pranks or politics. They are criminal acts that undermine Israel’s morality, legal system, and credibility — and the state’s hesitation to confront them endangers us all. There’s nothing easy about writing…
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Against All Lions
TOLDOS generations. Yitzchak comes across pits in the desert that were filled up since Avraham dug them out. He embarked on an endeavor to dig new pits for water. However upon the first pit, shepherds who let their animals graze in that area…
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The Dangers Of False Peace Deals
For decades, Israel has lived under the illusion-pressure of international promises, diplomatic “breakthroughs,” and grand ceremonies that claim to usher in peace. Again and again, these deals are wrapped in gold-trimmed rhetoric but collapse…
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Say Something
Say Something! In these days of violence unleashed, tenuously subdued, and barely restrained – what is a human being to do? In these days of flagrant public antisemitism intertwined with virulent anti-Zionism – what is a friend of Israel…
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Silence of the Moderates: Breeding Antisemitism
Why decent people look away while the oldest hatred returns The puzzle is not why antisemites speak. Fanatics, conspiracists, and revolutionaries of one kind or another have never lacked for words. The puzzle is why so many of the educated, the…
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UN calls to lift restrictions immediately to deliver more aid to Gaza
United Nations officials reported that the rain, floods, and severe …
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part IX
One People’s Hope Becomes Another’s Fear Few ideas in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are as politically consequential or emotionally fraught as Palestinian nationalism. At its core, it expresses a basic human aspiration: the desire to…
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