By Sending Aid to Nepal, Israel Is Not Trying to Win a Popularity Contest
It's not trying to "polish its tarnished image."
May 1, 2015
A New Exhibit on the Heyday of Jewish Boxing and Wrestling
From the 1930s to the '50s, Jewish boxers were common.
From the 1930s through the 1950s, professional Jewish boxers and wrestlers were quite common, and these sports drew a large Jewish audience. An exhibition at the YIVO Institute explores this episode in American-Jewish history and such colorful figures as Rafael Halperin (1924-2011), as Joseph Berger writes:
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The Obama Administration Is Promoting an Iranian Disinformation Campaign
The program isn't actually so popular with the Iranian people.
From Baghdad with Love . . . for the IDF
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Ḥasidic Tales through a Labor-Zionist Lens
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A New Exhibit on the Heyday of Jewish Boxing and Wrestling
From the 1930s to the '50s, Jewish boxers were common.