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Yipes It's Yom Kippur

 by Judy Lash Balint
Posted: October 6, 2008
The Days of Awe are drawing to their climactic conclusion, and signs of the impending Day of Judgment may be seen all over the... Full story »
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Preparing For The New Year In Israel

 by Judy Lash Balint
Posted: September 18, 2008
Without getting into an arcane description of the shmittah (sabbatical) laws that would be way beyond the scope of this... Full story »
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Big Hopes Gazans Had In The Ceasefire

 by Heba Z
Posted: July 31, 2008
Friday is the first day of the weekend in which my routine generally includes drinking a cup of coffee with my husband and catching... Full story »
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An Israeli's Take On The Hamas-Israel "Ceasefire"

 by Shira Cohen
Posted: June 17, 2008
I can't forget the eight-year-old, the one who lives in Sderot, who lost both his legs in a recent rocket attack. Or my friend's... Full story »
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Jerusalem Day 2008: They Would Have Been There

 by Judy Lash Balint
Posted: June 3, 2008
Every synagogue in the city has its own prayer service on Yom Yerushalayim, but this year, the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva was designated... Full story »
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A Traveling Soul Celebrates Israel's 60th Anniversary

 by Melody Amsel-Arieli
Posted: May 9, 2008
It's almost a rite of passage. Israeli kids, after the army, typically toss a couple of things into their knapsacks and set off... Full story »
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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?

 by Rob Campbell
Posted: May 3, 2008
Documentary provocateur Morgan Spurlock travels to a myriad of Middle Eastern countries including, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Israel,... Full story »
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Snapshots From Gaza

 by Heba Z
Posted: April 21, 2008
Snapshot No. I I wake up instantly realizing that the car has no fuel today. By fuel, I mean natural gas because since a week no diesel... Full story »
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In Gaza, You Do What You Have To Do

 by Heba Z
Posted: March 24, 2008
You know after parking the car for 21 days, we finally followed the flock in converting its system to natural gas! Yes, natural... Full story »
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Gaza Under Siege: A Morning On Abed Rabbo Street

 by Jaber Wishah
Posted: March 18, 2008
East Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip bore the brunt of Israel’s latest military incursion into Gaza. The incursion, which... Full story »
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Build A Movement For Lasting Middle East Peace

 by Darrell Goodliffe
Posted: March 9, 2008
Man-made and completely avoidable. The report opens with frank language saying that the situation in Gaza is “man-made, completely... Full story »
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Gaza And The Road Less Traveled

 by Heba Z
Posted: March 6, 2008
I had a nice engaging conversation with a work colleague about Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken and about... Full story »
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Gaza Conditions 'Worst In 40 Years'

 by Darrell Goodliffe
Posted: March 6, 2008
While recognising Israel's right to defend its citizens, a report entitled Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion argues that the... Full story »
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Raul Don't Rumba

 by Amir Mizroch
Posted: February 21, 2008
In 1961, about 500 Jewish Cubans secretly left their island and flew to Israel on three planes to start new lives in the Jewish... Full story »
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China: The Cause Of Darfur's Genocide

 by Russell Wyllie
Posted: February 14, 2008
China: The Brutal, Beautiful Blood-Stained Valleys Of Green, The Land Of Business Opportunity, And The Fascist, Communist, Imperialistic And Capitalist... Full story »
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The Degradation Of A Strip Search

 by Michelle Kenneth
Posted: February 6, 2008
Yes, you read correctly, I said "victim of a strip search." Watch this video provided by Alison Weir of If... Full story »
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Negotiating The Middle East's Bizarre Bazaar: A Parable

 by Jascha Kessler
Posted: October 15, 2007
Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, they burble and coo, apparently the only word those professional soothsayers know, even in the face of dictators whose... Full story »
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Memories Of An "Intifada" Insider

 by Saed Bannoura
Posted: August 15, 2006
On April 22, 1991, I was only 18 years old. I was out with some of my comrades planning to conduct a march and rally in the streets... Full story »
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Sleepless In Sderot

 by Judy Lash Balint
Posted: June 20, 2006
In the early 1990s I spent quite a bit of time in Sderot, one of Israel’s southern development towns that sits at the northeastern... Full story »
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