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I enter the coffee shop and scan the room looking for Ari. I finally spot him comfortable on a couch, heavily engaged in conversation with an older man who seems to be important to him. I cannot he...
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Barry Rubin has some advice for political junkies trying to understand the Middle East: It defies logic.
“If you who think you can understand politics in the Middle East using the same logic used ...
Nov 16, 2009 | 0 | 13 |
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A Jewish boxer who is studying to become a rabbi captured the world super welterweight championship.
Yuri Foreman of Brooklyn defeated champion Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico by decision in Las Vegas...
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In Sunday school, I often pondered synagogue paraphernalia: Who made the slender tallits, yellowed with age, or the nylon yarmulkes that stuck like cones on men’s heads?
For all the details of Jewi...
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 | 14 |
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Hezbollah pressured a private school in Beirut to drop from its curriculum a textbook containing excerpts of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
The English-language school, which asked not to be identified...
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 | 15 |
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WASHINGTON — Rahm Emanuel urged Palestinians and Israelis to launch negotiations without preconditions, echoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call.
“All issues should be resolved thro...
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 | 14 |
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Dear EarthTalk: Why is the plankton in the oceans dying? And what does this mean for the health of the oceans and marine life?
— Marilynn Block, Portland, Ore.
As the lowest link on the marine fo...
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 | 15 |
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NEW YORK — Pamela Saeks thought her daughter Karly, who has Asperger’s syndrome, would never be able to go on Birthright Israel, the program that offers Diaspora Jews free trips to Israel.
“For yea...
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CARNEGIE, Pa. — The lone window in Rick D’Loss’ office at Congregation Ahavath Achim looks onto Main Street and the abandoned, peeling front of the Main Hotel.
“This is such an ideal location,” D’L...
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Want to figure out how old someone is without asking outright?
Find out how they learned about the Holocaust in high school.
Just “The Diary of Anne Frank?” Maybe 40s or 50s. “Number the Stars?” L...
