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Food Holy Molé: Things Get Spicy in the Holy Land
Contrary to popular wisdom, spiciness is not one of the basic tastes. It’s actually a form of pain. It is the feeling caused by the presence of capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. It is usually found in pepper seeds and in the white fiber that goes through it. Peppers are usually hotter in…
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Fast Forward Wary of Orthodox, Bus Ads Omit All People
In order to avoid any possibility of featuring women in ads and angering the ultra-Orthodox, the Egged bus company and the Canaan Media advertising company have decided to stop using any photos of people in Jerusalem bus ads. The decision appears to have been confirmed according to correspondence between Canaan Media and the lawyer representing…
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Fast Forward Bibi’s ‘Arrogance’ Pushed Ban Ki-Moon to Tehran
The pressure exercised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to cancel his trip to the Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Tehran apparently boomeranged. According to blogger Colum Lynch, who provides reports and analysis on the United Nations for the Foreign Policy website, the Prime Minister’s Office campaign only convinced Ban that it…
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Fast Forward Illegal Settlers Get Sweet Housing Deal
The state will subsidize rental costs for the mobile homes it will be providing to residents of the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Migron in their new temporary camp nearby. The renters will pay just US $2.80 per square meter per month, or about 30 cents per square foot, less than half of other rental…
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Fast Forward Israeli Salt Removes Woman From Package
A package of Salit table salt typically features the familiar blue silhouette of a woman holding a pinch of salt but on this particular package, the woman was nowhere to be found. Jerusalem has already seen the disappearance of women from billboards and the ads on the sides of buses. Some of the incidents are…
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News Gold Medal and Bat Mitzvah for Kiwis
For one Jewish family in New Zealand, August began with one daughter competing in the summer Olympic Games and winning a gold medal. It draws to a close with a second daughter celebrating the bat mitzvah many feared she would not live to attend. To say the least, it has been an emotional time for…
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Fast Forward Bibi Insists Migron Will Be Evacuated
Three days before the ultimatum to evacuate 30 out of 46 families in the West Bank outpost of Migron expires, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the evacuation would be carried out in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision. “We will respect the court’s decision while continuing to strengthen the settlements,” Netanyahu said…
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Fast Forward Lieberman: Israel Should Undermine Abbas
Israel should present Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with an ultimatum, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said this weekend: If he doesn’t resume negotiations and abandon his unilateral campaign for UN recognition as a state, Israel will cease to see him as a legitimate negotiating partner. In an interview with Haaretz, Lieberman said the resumption of…
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