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After discovering his own patriarch's role in the Holocaust, scholar Johannes Spohr offers workshops that confront ...

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I love the thesis of the Blue Zone study because it aligns perfectly with my personal belief and advocacy about having a ...

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The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of ...