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Kerry announces new anti-Semitism envoy
Ira Forman, who led President Obama's reelection campaign in the Jewish community, was appointed as the State Department's envoy to combat anti-Semitism. US Secretary of State Kerry made the announcement as he released the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report.The State Department announced the appointment on Monday -- the same day it released its 2012 report on religious freedom ...
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Activists Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria
AMMAN/BEIRUT - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Sunday's reported death toll was the highest for Hezbollah in a single day's conflict in Syria, highlighting the increasing intervention by ...
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Storming the Bastille of Israel’s religious bureaucracy
This past Sunday, a press conference was held in Jerusalem which may yet come to signify the start of a revolutionary change in the provision of religious services in the Jewish state.Speaking to reporters, Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan announced a series of long-overdue reforms that will, for the first time, introduce elements such as ...
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An aliya reunion 40 years and going strong
I am not a person who frequents weekend seminars and group events, so it was with some trepidation that last week I attended a reunion of ex-British olim, mostly, but not exclusively, who had come to Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and had been friends and acquaintances in the Bnei Akiva movement in the UK during that period.A small group, some 20-plus couples, assembled for a Shabbat at a ...
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Social protests A redux
Last Saturday night, thousands of Tel Avivians took to the streets in a repeat of the 2011 social protests that captivated both the nation and international media, but which garnered few tangible results.At that time, makeshift tent "cities" were erected throughout Tel Aviv, most prominently on the posh Rothschild Boulevard, to protest social and economic inequality, particularly ...
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No holds barred Was the Holocaust punishment for sin
Do those who argue that European Jewry were nearly wiped out by God as a consequence of sin really believe they are doing God a favor with this ...
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Jordan’s king trying to play on Israel’s fears
Jordan's King Abdullah II is in trouble.Protests against him have been continuous for over two years now, and the theme of toppling the king has become well-established, as confirmed by Al Jazeera, The Independent and other media sources.To add to the king's woes, both his Palestinian majority and the formerly loyal East Bankers have joined forces against him. This has sent shock ...
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X marks the spot Could a new find be about to rewrite Australian history
Australia was first discovered by Dutch explorers in the early 17th century. So how did 1,000-year-old copper coins from a former African sultanate end up on a remote Australian ...
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Mistrial claims in Arias case
The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial wrapped up for the day today after a series of legal arguments in which her defence lawyers asked for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case. The trial is scheduled to continue tomorrow with Arias speaking to the jury. The judge denied the defense's request for a mistrial based on a key witness receiving death threats. In protest of the judge's ...
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Alexander Lebedev says charges are fabricated
The businessman Alexander Lebedev told a Russian court that he did not understand the accusations against him of "hooliganism motivated by political hatred" that could see him jailed for up to five ...
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The Pour New Sangrias That Refresh and Revive
It was the stuff of cheap excitement and of headaches, of travel posters of beaches and bullfights, and of simpler times when Greenwich Village was a folk paradise and when Spanish food meant garlic and shrimp rather than laboratory gastronomy. For wine lovers who have reached middle age, sangria, like Mateus or ...
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Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family ...
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Mass. priest suspended for plagiarizing online sermons
SANDWICH, Mass. A priest on Cape Cod has been suspended for plagiarizing sermons. The Rev. John McGinn, 65, of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sandwich was placed on administrative leave earlier this month after the diocese learned he had allegedly been using other preachers' sermons since 2006, reports CBS ...
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Twister on demolition tour
Tornadoes ravaged parts of Oklahoma yesterday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in America's midsection. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive storm system that stretched from Texas to ...
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Tranquilised bear rescued from tree
It was a bigger-than-average tree rescue for firefighters in Colorado Springs. They had to use a ladder truck to reach a black bear after it fell asleep in a tall pine tree after being tranquilised yesterday. The bear weighed between 68 and 90 kg. State wildlife division spokesman Michael Seraphin says a wildlife officer and firefighters put a harness around ...
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Twister on demolition tour
Tornadoes ravaged parts of Oklahoma yesterday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in America's midsection. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. "You can see ...
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Two dead after hot-air balloons collide in Turkey
Three Brazilian tourists have died and 22 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in central Turkey, officials say. The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon's basket ripped another's envelope in mid-air, governor of Nevsehir province Abdurrahman Savas told Anatolia news agency. "The lower balloon was torn and fell ...
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Carney Top Advisers Knew About IRS Scandal But No One Told Obama
White House spokesman Jay Carney says that the president's counsel and chief of staff knew about the investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative group. But, Carney says, they didn't see it fit to tell President Obama about the ...
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State Dept. Spokeswoman Refuses to Criticize Iran for Excluding Women Candidates from Election
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to criticize Iran for excluding women candidates from the upcoming "election" there. The remarkable exchange, ...
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The Perfect Summer Beer May Be the Saison
For years, the American beer world has been in love with saisons: dry, fruity ales traditionally made by Belgian farmers in winter, then set aside for quenching thirst during hot summer days in the fields. But while most craft breweries have a saison beer in their rotation, and some even specialize in the style, it has yet to catch on with the general, I. P. A.-swilling ...
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Pakistani Prime Minister-Designate Calls For Taliban Talks
Pakistan's prime minister-designate has called for a dialogue with hard-line Taliban militants waging a war against the government. In a speech on May 20, Nawaz Sharif said that the Taliban's past offer of talks should be considered seriously. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party secured a majority in the May 11 parliamentary elections and is expected to form a new ...
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Putins Game And Kudrin’s Choice
lashed out at the authorities, saying the country needed to modernize economically and politically or risk stagnation and decay. "Stagnation is not a one-day story," he said. "Even if we roll our sleeves up now, we'll have to toil three or five years to attain new elements of effectiveness...The political system is lagging behind the challenges of the time, and does not ...
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U.S. Report Says Religious Freedom On The Decline Worldwide
WASHINGTON -- Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend "worrying." The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report ...
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Mass murder shocks Beersheba neighborhood
Remo Vaknin says he's lucky to be alive. Grabbing a cigarette outside of Beersheba's Soroka Hospital on Monday afternoon, Vaknin described how he was standing in the Neve Zeev neighborhood Bank Hapoalim branch when ...
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Palestinian tragic film takes Cannes by storm
CANNES - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry."Omar" by director Hany Abu-Assad, known for the 2005 award-winning film "Paradise Now", is a political thriller interwoven with a story of ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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