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Moe Berg spoke 12 languages and could hit in none of them, but was sent to murder the Nazi in charge of Hitler’s atomic bomb project. Courtesy of Irwin Berg
June 5, 2019, 11:06 am
The very mysterious Moe Berg
New documentary on the major leaguer turned spy opens in NJ
By Jonathan Mark
With mass deportations shredding the Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes underground prepared thousands of documents for burial, items illuminating the Ghetto experience to an unknown future. Anna Wloch
January 16, 2019, 11:40 am
Film spotlights storytellers of Warsaw Ghetto
If end was near, they wanted to tell their own tale
By Jonathan Mark
Advice given to legendary singer Johhny Cash early in his career also serves as a poignant lesson to us during Days of Awe. Photo Courtesy Getty Images
September 5, 2018, 2:45 pm
Arousing God’s mercy
Needing soul surgery in Days of Awe
By Jonathan Mark
The Woodbourne Shul on Route 52 was empty and creaking until Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis arrived in 2010 and put up a sign outside, “Everyone Is Welcome.” Wikimedia Commons
August 22, 2018, 11:15 am
King Harvest has surely come
Summer’s fading ‘in the country’
By Jonathan Mark
President Trump at a rally last weekend in Ohio. Although there is some ambivalence about him, the president’s support is strong in the Orthodox community. Getty Images
August 8, 2018, 11:27 am
Standing by their man, only more so these days
Trump’s Orthodox voters still on board
By Jonathan Mark
Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s warnings of the threat Eastern European Jews faced galloped like Paul Revere through every shtetl and town. KNESSET.GOV.IL
July 27, 2018, 1:01 pm
Present at the creation: Zionists before Zionism
An older generation knew the 70 years before ’48
By Jonathan Mark
A street in Kishinev in the 1880s. Courtesy of Liveright Publishing
July 18, 2018, 12:14 pm
Kishinev’s nightmare keeps reverberating
New book examines most notorious pogrom of all
By Jonathan Mark
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