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News Nude Photos Leaked From Dead Sea Shoot
Close-up pictures from a massive nude photo shoot orchestrated by celebrated artist Spencer Tunick have reportedly leaked online in recent days, in what shoot organizers claim was done against their wishes. In September, 1,200 male and female volunteers participated in the mass nude photograph at the Dead Sea, including men and women ranging from 20…
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Israel News Egypt Confronts Its Unfinished Revolution
Shortly before the recent outbreak of violence in Tahrir Square, a friend fantasized about what he would do if he had a time machine with two buttons, one labeled “Back to Mubarak,” the other labeled “Stay the course.” This decent, eminent professional — a tear-gassed veteran of the original Tahrir Square protests that ousted autocrat…
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Opinion A Piece of Hasbara Aimed at Alienating Me
Usually when another blogger sufficiently channels my own anger about something that has me piqued, I tend to just try and let it go and give them the last word. And that was my first reaction this morning when I read, with increasing agitation, Jeffrey Goldberg’s post about a new Israeli ad campaign targeted at…
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Opinion Why Did Netanyahu Free My Daughter’s Killer?
Malki, in October you would have turned 25, if only… if only you hadn’t stopped in at the Sbarro restaurant in the center of Jerusalem with your best friend, Michal, that hot summer afternoon of August 9, 2001. You were on your way to a camp counselors’ meeting but had some time to spare. At…
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Food Have Your Treyf and Eat It, Too
A recent development in kosher meat is stirring up controversy among Jews both observant and secular. It’s Spanish goose. Spanish farmers discovered that the flesh of their organically-raised geese tastes exactly like pork. Two entrepreneurs caught wind of this culinary phenomenon and immediately foresaw a market for the swinish treat: treyf-curious Jews. Now, all it…
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Opinion Pinkwashing Is Not Black and White
Last March, this newspaper published a classic example of pinkwashing, which is the concerted effort by supporters of Israel to tout Israel’s excellent LGBT rights record to win support for Israel in general. In their straightforwardly titled piece, “LGBT Activists Should Know Friends From Foes,” Stuart Applebaum and Benjamin Weinthal stated plainly that activists “should…
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Life Back-Room Rabbinical Court Deal Bars Women
For the first time in 12 years there is no woman on the committee responsible for appointing judges to Israel’s rabbinical courts, after the Israel Bar Association failed to elect a woman as its members’ representative. This is being viewed as a tremendous blow to promoting the rights of women who must face these courts…
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Fast Forward GOP Candidates Split on Iran Strike
The two-hour-long foreign policy debate between eight Republican presidential hopefuls at Constitution Hall in Washington – packed to capacity with local dignitaries and reporters, former officials and scholars – will probably be criticized by foreign policy experts on the things it didn?t focus enough on: the Arab spring, China, and seemingly deteriorating relations with Russia….
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