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Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

Dr. Ervin Birnbaum is founder and director of Shearim Netanya, the first outreach program to Russian immigrants in Israel. He has taught at City University of New York, Haifa University, and the University of Moscow; served as national superintendent of education of Youth Aliyah and as the first national superintendent of education for the Institute of Jewish Studies; and, at the request of David Ben-Gurion, founded and directed the English Language College Preparatory School at Midreshet Sde Boker.

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SodaStream Saga Underscores Israel’s Lack Of PR Savvy

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

The inexplicable decision by Israel's gov't to deny passage permits to 74 SodaStream Palestinian workers is bad business and worse public relations

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Sounding The Shofar To Action

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

Possibly the farcical motion would've failed but its consideration proves a deep anti-Israel bias

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Destined To Endure Forever

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

Our sages recognized that the 10 Commandments was meant not only for Israel but for all mankind.

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Of Jews And Boycotts

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

"Israel=Apartheid state" is an outright lie exploiting the naiveté and ignorance of good people

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70 Years Ago This Month: The Holocaust Comes To Hungary

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

In the course of the ages there wasn’t a Jewish community more convinced of its capacity for survival than the Jewish community of Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The Lessons Of Lidice

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

By bus Lidice is a 35-minute ride from Prague. It is a ten-minute walk from the Lidice bus stop through the well-kept gardens to the main building and entrance of the Lidice Memorial Museum. In the season of bloom the gardens display thousands of roses. There is little that suggests the vast human tragedy that transpired there in the course of one night seventy years ago.

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Please – Take Our Jews

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

What made the deportation of more than 80,000 Jews from Slovakia during World War II unique? It was this striking fact: In contrast with other countries, the Slovak government actually appealed to the Germans to enact deportation.

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70 Years Ago This Week: Turning Point Of The Holocaust

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

Barely five weeks after the Wehrmacht’s onslaught against Russia, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering issued the following directive on July 31, 1941 to Chief of Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich:

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