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Culture One Nation Under God
Israel: A History By Anita Shapira Brandeis University Press, 528 pages, $35 Everyone wants to write a “history of Israel” — and many good, and some not so good, historians have done so. Martin Gilbert’s “Israel: A History” (not to be confused with the book we are reviewing here) is excellent for the beginner in…
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Israel News Dissenters on Panel Blast Study Claiming Palestinian Textbooks Don’t Vilify Jews
Controversy quickly engulfed a new study that said Palestinian textbooks do not incite hatred for Jews with Israel blasting the report — with some members of the report’s advisory panel claiming they were blindsided by its release. Bar Ilan University Talmud professor Daniel Sperber, a member of the panel, slammed the decision to release the…
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Fast Forward Leaders of Jewish Reform Movement Plan Israel Advocacy Amid Tension
Dozens of Reform Jewish representatives attended an Israel advocacy seminar in Paris. The meeting organized by the European Union for Progressive Judaism came amid tension in the Reform community’s relationship with Israel. Some 40 delegates from 15 European countries heard lectures by AIPAC director Stephen Schneider; Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic…
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Fast Forward Super Bowl Fever Hits Israel After Midnight
“Let’s go ‘Niners!” The call pierced the quiet dark on the Tel Aviv beach promenade just after midnight on Monday, as American football fans warmed up their vocal chords for the big Super Bowl game at Mike’s Place. The venue was full – mostly with men, but with a few women scattered among the crowd….
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Fast Forward Ed Koch Gets Own Subway Stop on Day of Funeral
As New York prepares to say good-bye to Ed Koch, he’s even getting his own Manhattan subway station. On the day of the ex-mayor’s star studded funeral, Rep. Carolyn Maloney announced the renaming of the subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue will be called “Mayor Ed Koch subway station,” according to the…
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Opinion Egypt on the Edge
Amid the blaze of graffiti in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square — from hastily scribbled political slogans to elaborate portraits of the many martyrs of Egypt’s unfinished revolution — is an arresting image that encapsulates some of the rage engulfing the country right now. It shows the easily recognizable face of Mohamed Morsi, the embattled…
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Israel News Palestinian Textbooks Don’t Vilify Jews, New Study Reveals
A landmark State Department-funded study has cleared the Palestinians of demonizing Jews in school textbooks but contends that both Israeli and Palestinian teachers use classroom materials that distort the history of the Middle East conflict. The study, described by its authors as the first scientific analysis of incitement in Israeli and Palestinian textbooks, contradicts a…
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Fast Forward Fitting Epitaph? Ed Koch Movie Opens as Ex-Mayor’s Death Steals Spotlight
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch once joked that days on which his name did not appear in the newspaper were days without news. And so it seemed fitting that Koch’s death on Friday at age 88 came on the very day that “Koch,” a documentary that traces his three terms as mayor from 1978…
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