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Jihad and the Jews: A Guide to the Peace Talks
September 1, 2010[Story ID: 12533] For those without a press pass or the time and patience to filter through every tidbit of information available to the public concerning the Middle East tango ‘
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Rabbi Ovadia Sends a New Years Wish to Abbas
August 31, 2010[Story ID: 12450] Spiritual leader of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef made a public wish during his Rosh Hashana sermon that ‘
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Summer of Lebanon Cedars and Iranian Brow-Beaters
August 30, 2010[Story ID: 12333] Last Saturday, the Iranian Intelligence Minister, Heydar Moslehi accused the Swedish cosmetics firm, Oriflame of trying to harm Iran’s security after the Tehran office was closed and five of its employees were taken into police custody amid allegations that they were running a pyramid scheme for a spy agency. Moslehi was quoted [...]
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Israel Lays Down Some New Tracks
August 26, 2010[Story ID: 12194] According to United Press International, an Israeli railway line in Samaria will lead on to the Gaza Strip. Israel’s Transport Minister Yisrael Katz made the plans known at a meeting early in the week with supporters of Netanyahu’s Likud Party. The track begins in Rosh Ha’ayin, near Petach Tikvah in Israel via [...]
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Gaza 2010
August 24, 2010[Story ID: 12070] There are those in the world that are obsessed with pointing out the oppression and the struggle, and are quick to add fuel to the fire. There is little chance they would want to show these pictures. In general people tend to always look for the dark side and the “ongoing struggle” [...]
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ROSH HASHANAH: SHOFARING IN THE NEW YEAR
August 24, 2010[Story ID: 12071] According to the Mishnah, or the Oral Torah: There are four New Years: on the first of Nisan the New Year for kings and for festivals; on the first of Elul the New Year for the tithe of animals. Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Shimon say, on the first of Tishrei: on the [...]
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Russia Refuses to Comply with Chabad
August 19, 2010[Story ID: 11798] Despite a lawsuit by the Chassidic movement, Russia will not turn over a library of Chabad-Lubavitch documents to the group’
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I RAN TO HELP LEBANONS DUBIOUS FUTURE
August 17, 2010[Story ID: 11679] According to a recent article in Reuters, Washington lawmakers are delaying funds of aid to the Lebanese army for fear of their working with Iran.The article made no specific mention of the Hezbollah. Could they be more idiotic? ‘
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Kutcher Visits the Jewish Homeland
August 10, 2010[Story ID: 11273] OneJerusalem is in no position to judge another’
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The Indian Giver
August 9, 2010[Story ID: 11214] The United States of America has officially decided on cutting funding for Israel’
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This Dysfunctional Desert
August 8, 2010[Story ID: 11152] While Bibi says that peace talks could begin as early as the middle of August, only a few days after the Arab League said that it would back direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, five rockets hit the southern town of Eilat and Aqaba, purportedly fired from the Sinai Peninsula. This [...]
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AREOPAGITICA
August 2, 2010[Story ID: 10877] The separation of the Gaza Strip’s Hamas government and the West Bank’s Fatah led Palestinian Authority has caused more than a few fundamental symptoms of a serious schism. One such symptom is the Freedom of Press. 42-year-old Hamato Samir was the editor of the newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, based in Gaza. He had [...]
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Everybody Must Get Stoned
July 28, 2010[Story ID: 10600] “In feature films about John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon and George W. Bush, Oliver Stone, gave free rein to his imagination and was often criticized for doing so” Writes Larry Rohter of the New York Times. During the recent New York Times interview, Rohter wrote that Stone stated, ‘
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Unpublished Kafka to see Light of Day
July 28, 2010[Story ID: 10601] For more than 40 years, the treasure trove of unseen and unpublished possibly important Franz Kafka works lay stacked in piles in a humid apartment in a Tel Aviv suburb. The cache consisted of thousands of decomposing postcards, letters, manuscripts and drawings by the Czech-born Jewish writer. Well, after a legal battle [...]
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Two Sides of Gaza
July 25, 2010[Story ID: 10416] Hard Times… For those familiar with social policies in Saudi Arabia the following should not come as such a surprise: According to a new Hamas law, women in Gaza are forbidden to smoke tobacco water pipes; the latest in a year long campaign to enforce gradually a strict life code on the [...]
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Saving For a Rainy Day: Bibi’s Big Budget Blunder
July 19, 2010[Story ID: 10081] “In the last decade, the Israeli economy was faced with two crises: a local one and an international one.” Began Bibi, “We came out of both because we had an economic policy with vision. The budget we compiled today is a responsible and balanced budget that grants stability to the Israeli economy [...]
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Flames
July 14, 2010[Story ID: 9884] Rafal Betlejewski, a Polish performance artist burned down a barn in the central region of the country in a commemoration of the July, 1941 Jedwabne incident. In this deadly pogrom, in the presence of Nazi German Ordnungspolizei, approximately 340 Jewish people were locked inside a barn and burned alive by gentile Polish [...]
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Israel’s Green Business Tycoon
July 12, 2010[Story ID: 9758] Mazal Tov to Shari Arison! Forbes recently unveiled a list of the “Top 10 Greenest Billionaires.” The Israeli heiress to the Carnival Cruise Line was included. For Arison, profits and environmental sustainability are not opposing forces at all. Being environmentally friendly actually has increased her companies’ success. In an interview with BusinessWeek [...]
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Mad Lebs
July 5, 2010[Story ID: 9398] There Goes the Neighborhood What happens when you become too weak to kill innocent Israeli citizens? Kill innocent American citizens ‘