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Does Arab Money Fund Left-Wing Israeli NGOs?
In the context of Israeli politics, it is the most incendiary charge made thus far against human rights groups and other left-wing nongovernmental organizations: that some of the money that funds their work comes from Arabs — or even from terrorists. As the Knesset steams ahead with plans to probe the country’s human rights groups,…
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Two Countries, Two Approaches To Regulating Embryonic Stem-Cell Use
Between 1998 and 2007, Israeli academics researching human embryonic stem cells published 55 papers in scientific publications on the topic, according to an article in the scientific journal Cell Stem Cell. During this same time period, researchers in the United States published 150 stem-cell research papers. This means that Israel, with a population of 7.4…
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Embattled Muslim Center Appoints Little-Known Imam to Spiritual Leadership
The developer of the Islamic center planned for near Ground Zero has demoted the imam who has been the controversial project’s main public face, while naming a comparatively little-known Muslim cleric to its leadership team. In a January 14 press release, those behind the center announced that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy…
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In Abandoning the Labor Party, Barak Solidifies Coalition With Netanyahu
Overnight, he went from leader of Israel’s most illustrious left-wing party to an appendage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. What next for Ehud Barak? Since his January 17 break with Israel’s Labor Party — taking that once mighty, now shriveled faction down yet one more peg by his departure — the retired general…
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Labor Unrest in Israel’s Foreign Service Is Felt in Capitals Around the Globe
If Israelis are feeling increasingly internationally isolated, it is not only the result of pro-Palestinian sentiment overseas. Lately, it is also due to the work slowdown declared by Israel’s foreign service, a new phase in the diplomats’ ongoing struggle for higher wages and more funding. The results of this labor dispute are becoming increasingly visible:…
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Sen. Lieberman Bows Out, Still Vexing Liberals and Conservatives
When trying to explain his decision not to seek another term in Senate, Senator Joseph Lieberman went to the Bible. “The reason I have decided not to run for re-election in 2012 is best expressed in the wise words from Ecclesiastes: ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven,’”…
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Hillary Was Right: It Does Take a Village
Several weeks ago, my 2-year-old daughter, Orli, woke up screaming. It wasn’t the same kind of cry we normally hear in the mornings — sometimes she’ll just call out “Done!” which, even at 6:30 a.m., is still amusing. And it was early, as in pitch-black-nearly-middle-of-the-night early. When my partner, Ian, went to get her, she…
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PLO Office Raises Flag in Washington
The PLO office in Washington raised a flag for the first time. “It’s about time that this flag that symbolizes the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and statehood is raised in the United States,” said Palestine Liberation Organization envoy Maen Areikat in a brief ceremony Tuesday outside its Dupont Circle offices. “We hope…
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Family Roots
Last April, Joseph Pickrell sent a tube of his saliva to the California genetic testing company 23andMe. After spending years studying other people’s DNA, the 27-year-old doctoral student at the University of Chicago decided he wanted to learn more about his own genetic ancestry. When the results came back, they showed that Pickrell was largely…
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Bias Feared in Public School Proposal To Absorb Yiddish Special Ed Program
A New York suburb is divided over plans to absorb a private special education program for Yiddish and Hebrew speakers into the public school district — a plan that opponents say could be racially discriminatory. The proposal for the East Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County, N.Y., to take over the financially troubled Rockland…
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