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The Schmooze Gender-Bending Baby Names Take Off in Israel
It’s hard work keeping up with my four-year-old’s social life — not only because it’s far more lively than mine, with invitations freely exchanged over the sandpit, but also because it’s so difficult to identify his friends. “Can you see Rotem?” he asks during morning drop-off at kindergarten. I look at each of the girls,…
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News Touro Under Scrutiny Over Israel Class
Touro College, a New York-based Jewish university, came under pointed questioning by curriculum experts after the Forward revealed that it granted academic credits for an online course put together by a pro-Israel advocacy group. Touro offered students credit for taking Israel Inside/Out, an online class cobbled together with materials like interviews with pro-Israel activists and…
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Food Touring Israel’s Food Landscape
Living in Tel Aviv means that I take a lot of things related to food for granted. I know that when I go to the market, veggies will be much, much cheaper than packaged foods and fresher than most places in America. I know that nearly any time of day or night I can order…
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Opinion Gaza’s ‘Tunnel Economy’ Is Booming
In early November, Muhammad Al Qotati, a worker at the smuggling tunnels in Rafah, Gaza, welcomed my friend, journalist Nick Pelham, and me to a walk-around. The area he showed us is less than half a mile from the town of Rafah and about the distance of a football field from Egypt; it looks a…
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Food Eden Teva: Israel’s Answer to Whole Foods
I suppose I am one of those weird people who enjoy grocery shopping. I like wandering through them, relishing the produce, ogling the olives. I find it relaxing to plan meals as I stroll the store. So before my husband I moved to Israel from Brownstone Brooklyn nearly two years ago, one of the big…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Opposes Attack on Iran
The international community should engage in a ?moral? attack on Iran, not a military one, President Shimon Peres said in an interview on Monday, adding that Tehran?s support of terror was as much a global concern as the economic crisis. Peres? comments came after the United Nation?s nuclear watchdog released a report last week, which…
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Israel News Democrats Slam GOP Over ‘Zero’ Israel Aid
Democratic heavyweights hit back at Republicans over their debate discussion about ?zero-ing? U.S. aid to foreign countries, including Israel, during the weekend CBS News Republican debate. Smelling a chance to win back disaffected Jewish voters, former Congressman Mel Levine penned an article in Israel?s Haaretz daily blasting the idea, and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie…
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Fast Forward Israel May Be Behind Iran Blast: Report
Israel is behind the recent explosion at an Iran missile base, a Western intelligence source told Time Magazine. ?Don?t believe the Iranians that it was an accident,? the Western official told Time, insisting that widespread assumptions that Israel?s Mossad was responsible for Saturday?s blast, which killed 17 and wounded 15, were correct. The official also…
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