Joshua Mitnick
By Joshua Mitnick
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News Fatah Fights To Keep Hamas Out of Mosques
Nablus, West Bank – He has been charged with no less a mission than ridding the local branch of the Palestinian religious authority of Hamas’s influence. But when a reporter arrives in his office, Hassan Hilali goes stiff. “I am only a simple man,” he apologizes, while dialing a superior to get authorization to talk….
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News Debate Over Sabbatical Year Drives Up Prices, Spurs Challenges to Chief Rabbinate
Kibbutz Be’erot Yitzhak, Israel – Debate over how to implement the biblical injunction to let the Land of Israel lie fallow every seventh year is sowing the seeds for a potential rebellion against the state’s chief rabbinate. Since Rosh Hashanah, when the most recent sabbatical — or shmita — year began, Israel’s Modern and ultra…
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