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Jan.26.2011
I was sent an email from red room tells me to blog about my fav. cause it didn't need a lot of thinking, actually it didn't need thinking at allMy fav. cause that jumped to my head instantly is " the Palestinian cause"Or as western world call it "the middle-east conflict"the...
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Jan.20.2011
The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson
I once read an essay, in The Atlantic, I believe, in which the author posited that no one-on-one relationship is complete without the presence of a third, one which adds a different perspective to the dual relationship. While I don’t think the author of ...
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Jan.08.2011
It is hard to imagine the challenge facing a school that serves over 800 children from forty-eight countries, children who’ve known wars and strife, who saw their parents killed in front of their eyes, or children who had walked the desert, or who come to school hungry and whose parents...
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Jan.07.2011
How do you make Jaffa, the ancient Mediterranean port city and present-day gritty suburb of Tel Aviv, look like Vienna in the winter of 1791? Answer: make a book video of a historical novel set in Mozart’s time, and let the lighting do the rest.Last week I headed down to Jaffa for a second day of...
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Jan.01.2011
When the residents of Kiryat Malakhi, a Negev town whose name means “City of Angels,” picked Moshe Katsav as the youngest-ever mayor in Israel’s history in 1970, he was 24. For decades he was the town’s symbol, an immigrant born in Iran who made it to the top of the establishment and was elected...
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Dec.23.2010
The current situation in Seattle is fraught with the difficulty of dealing with political correctness rather than the harmony needed to govern its constituents based on the controversy of placing inflammatory anti-semitic advertisements in the guise of anti-Israel on the sides of municipal buses...
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Dec.20.2010
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah ended last week, bringing to a close an apparently great opportunity for sexual conquest.The Center for the Art of Seduction, a Tel Aviv business which runs courses to help men succeed with women (“Do you want to get every girl that you want?”), posted a video earlier...
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Dec.13.2010
ST. GEORGE’S MONASTERY, West Bank — Gathered in the chapel of this outpost in the Judean Desert last week, the Orthodox priests chanted “Lord, have mercy” in Greek, in a service of blessing for a new road that makes the venerable building accessible to the growing number of tourists willing to dare...
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Nov.23.2010
Superfragilistic Amniotic Intercourse
Title hardly makes any sense, right? Wrong!
Attempting to decipher the rhyme or reason for things of potential global impact goes against the pall of rational thought that is of value to the human race. Kind of like calling an otter a threat to walruses.
Let's...
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Nov.11.2010
A few days before my first of seven journeys to Israel Palestine, a Palestinian American friend warned me, “Don’t visit Mordechai Vanunu, if you see him; don’t speak to him. He’s not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble.”
I responded, “OK, I won’t track him down, but...
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