Our columnists, contributors and readers often share with us articles they have read on other websites which they think will be of particular interest to our readers. We love to pass them on, with credit to the referrer:

Larry Gorfine of San Diego saw this video depicting traffic stopping for Yom Hashoah and flashing back to Holocaust documentation. From Maoz Israel, it juxtaposes these photographs with images of Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here's the link.

Jay Jacobson of Minneapolis passes on this promotional piece of the Stephen Spielberg Film Archive at Hebrew University. It contains wonderful archival footage of Israeli history, well worth seeing. Here's the link.

Cantor Sheldon Merel of San Diego was fascinated by this "Interesting Jewish Facts" column in the Chicago Jewish

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News Online. They're fun to ponder, but we'd urge anyone writing a book or an academic paper to carefully corroborate these "facts" before citing any of them. Here's the link.

J.J. Surbeck of Encinitas found exceptional an article in the June 25, 2009 issue of the Economist analyzing Arab economies and comparing them unfavorably to Israel's. If you can't find a back issue of the magazine in a library, you can order PDFs of the articles on line for a fee. Here's the link to access the paid material.

Gert Thaler of La Jolla, perusing our last edition, saw the "Double Talk" column by sisters Janet and Susan Solof from the 1953 edition of Southwestern Jewish Press, and was kind enough to add a postscript: "I smile a lot when I read the Solof girls 'column' and the teenage parties with people who were dating each other and know what roads they traveled and who they ended up with.  Tonight I noticed that a somebody’s teenage party there were two couples who actually made it to the altar from those teen parties, Iris and Matt Strauss and Deann and Lenny Bloom."