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…frontlines WERTH WIL=PANOSCUS 6 Holocaust Hero Local high school teacher connects with family legend on trip to Israel. Marlene Temkin Special to the Jewish News A t Yad Vashem in Israel, there is a memorial wall in the Garden of the Righteous engraved with the names of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust. One name is of utmost importance to Marc de Zwaan, a history teacher at the International Academy in B...…
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…arts & entertainment A Couple Of Greenhorns, Magical Realism Style First-time novelist Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni is making the rounds as one of the must-read books of the summer. Diane Cole Special to the Jewish News R eading Helene Wecker's debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni (Harper), is akin to embarking on a magic-carpet journey in time to a place that resembles the roiling ethnic neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan circa...…
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