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Clowning for a Higher Purpose
http://www.israel21c.org/social-action/clowning-for-a-higher-purpose
Virtual Bridge Allows Strangers in Mideast to Seem Less http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/world/middleeast/10mideast.html
In Defense of Wishful Thinking
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=in-defense-of-wishful-thinking-2011-07-05
From a New Generation of Artists, Vivid Canvases of Iraq’s Pain
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/asia/19iraq.html
Mietek Pemper, 91, Camp Inmate Who Compiled Schindler’s List
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html
Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/19/hiroshima-ground-zero-1945/#1
The Birth of Religion
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text/1
Demjanjuk in Munich
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/opinion/17Lipstadt.html
The Geography of Hate in the US
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/the-geography-of-hate/238708/
The Problem With 'Evil'http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576284740581257066.html
The Thinking Person’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://forward.com/articles/137306/
Dangerous Arts by Salmon Rushdie
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/opinion/20Rushdie.html
Bloodlust: Why we should fear our neighbors more than strangers
http://chronicle.com/article/Bloodlust/126865/
Why Disasters Make the Vast Majority of Us Better People
http://www.alternet.org/story/150294/
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/arts/design/holocaust-museum-in-los-angeles-makes-hard-choices-review.html
Legendary photojournalist Ruth Gruber recalls documenting the Holocaust
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/03/6180399-legendary-photojournalist-ruth-gruber-recalls-documenting-the-holocaust
Qaddafi YouTube Spoof by Israeli Gets Arab Fans
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/world/middleeast/28youtube.html
Illustrious: Simms Taback, prolific children’s book author and illustrator and designer of the original McDonald’s Happy Meal, creates art that is kooky, zany, poignant, and seriously Jewish
http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/58270/illustrious/
The reason why Jews became intellectuals
http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/44936/the-reason-why-jews-became-intellectuals
Tullia Zevi's 'fruitful dialogue'
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/01/31/
tullia_zevis_fruitful_dialogue/
Maine Voices: Long Creek youth have opportunities to give back to community
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/long-creek-youth-have-opportunities-to-give-back-to-community_2011-01-25.html
Start-up continent
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=201842
Merry Christmas From Jerusalem
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/merry-christmas-from-jerusalem/68536/
100 Greatest Jewish Songs
http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/music/53984/songs-of-songs/
Eastern Europe between Hitler & Stalin
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/worst-madness/?page=1
Israeli Medical Device stars on TV's Glee
http://israel21c.org/201012098607/health/a-moment-of-glee-for-argo-medical
In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/politics/11nixon.html
Maker of ‘Shoah’ Stresses Its Lasting Value
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/movies/07shoah.html
Illuminating the possibilities
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-oren-israel-fires-20101207,0,5941958.story
One lesson of the Carmel fire in Israel is that enlightened cooperation is possible in the tense Middle East. By Michael B. Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States.
Navigating Past Nihilism
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/navigating-past-nihilism/
Facebook, Twitter and the Search for Peace in the Middle East
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/facebook-twitter-and-the-_b_788378.html
How Should We Teach Children About the Holocaust?
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/79217/teaching-childrens-books-holocaust
This Is Your Brain on Metaphors
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-on-metaphors/
Hitler Exhibit Explores a Wider Circle of Guilt
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/europe/16hitler.html
A show in Berlin focuses on the German society that nurtured and empowered the Nazi leader.
Jerusalem Post article and photos about Israeli Jets over Auschwitz
http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/history/f15-jets-over-auschwitz.htm
Partnership also sends Israeli artists to US
http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=180086
How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101
http://ashoka.org/story/mary-gordon-time-magazine
The Art of Transhumanism
http://singularityhub.com/2010/06/07/the-art-of-transhumanism/
A peacemaking lesson from the people of Derry
Learning forgiveness from Bloody Sunday
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=178914
Every Teacher a Peace Teacher
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/every-teacher-a-peace-teacher
Indonesia's Artists vs. Muslim Extremists
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2001698,00.html?artId=2001698
Bassists Without Borders: Avant-garde jazz takes on the Middle East
http://www.forward.com/articles/129425/
Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/can-you-teach-emotional-intelligence
Portraits of Courage: Americans Who Tell the Truth
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/portraits-of-courage-americans-who-tell-the-truth
Do you know real hip-hop?
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=182511
How Matisyahu's Hasidic Reggae Music Made Me Cry
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/how-matisyahus-hasidic-reggae-music-made-me-cry/60143/
More Than A Mantra: “We’re All in This Together”
http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/margaret-wheatley/more-than-a-mantra-were-all-in-this-together
Chosen: The toxin of anti-Semitism isn’t a threat only to Jews.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/chosen/8173/
INSIDE / OUTSIDE: Art By Prison Inmates and Ex-offenders
http://weeklypress.com/inside-outside-art-by-prison-inmates-and-exoffenders-p2105-1.htm
Jaron Lanier’s Symphonic, Spiritual Genealogy
http://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/jaron-lanier-symphonic-spiritual-genealogy/27616
Buddha 2010: Contemporary Tibetan Art in New York
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-eternity/buddha-2010-contemporary-_b_738707.html
The show, which features nine Tibetan artists exploring socio-political, spiritual and cultural issues, brings to the fore a transformative artistic approach of integrating centuries-old traditions and techniques of constructing imagery of Tibetan Buddhist art, with living anthropologies, influences and media.
William Blake's America, 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/William-Blakes-America-2010/125024/