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This Week on VOMENA

By on October 1st, 2009

Khalil Bendib speaks with Tel Aviv University historian Dr. Shlomo Sand about his brand-new book,
“The Invention of the Jewish People,” which has become a best seller both in Israel and in France: Did
the world’s Jewry truly originate in Palestine, and if not, why does that myth persist to this day?
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa also presents “In Honor of a Hero,” Bay Area-based Algerian
Berber singer/songwriter Moh Alileche’s newest CD, which came out two months ago.

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This Week on VOMENA

By on July 2nd, 2009

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we have continued coverage of the ongoing protests in Iran regarding the recent forced television co. Plus an interview with co-owner of Berkeley Daily Planet, Becky O’Mally, talks about a campaign from right-wing Zionists who are trying to shut down the paper. Plus an interview with Rachel Lea Jones, director of the documentary film “Ashkenaz,” looking at the issue of racism among Jewish in Israel.

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“Erase My Granfather’s Name at Yad Vashem”

By on February 20th, 2009

Jean-Moïse Braitberg Discusses Israel in Le Monde Mr. President of the State of Israel, I am writing to you to intervene with the proper authorities to withdraw from the Yad Vashem Memorial dedicated to the memory of Jewish victims of Nazism, the name of my grandfather, Moshe Brajtberg, who was gassed at Treblinka in 1943, [...]

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