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Life The Source of That Mysterious Maple Syrup Smell: Israel
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like odor, which wafted over the island of Manhattan on several occasions since 2005, appears to be the 76-year-old, Haifa-based company Frutaron, according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The New York Times reports: “The city revealed on Thursday that the culprit was the seeds of fenugreek, a cloverlike…
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Life ‘Joe the Plumber’ Puts Down the Plunger, Heads to Israel
“Joe the Plumber” won’t be unclogging any toilets, at least not while war is raging in Gaza. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher — the Ohio plumber and would-be country music star who became a fixture of John McCain’s presidential campaign — is heading to Israel for 10 days as a war reporter for the conservative Web site…
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News Israel a Non-Issue That Might Haunt U.S. Election
Israel has”ceased to exist as a campaign issue” at the moment in this year’s presidential contest, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. In fact, writing in Haaretz, Bradley Burston notes Israel’s influence on the election could be one military strike, one peace deal or one terrorist strike away. He outlines a half dozen ways, most…
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News Ed Koch: U.S. ‘Safer’ With Obama
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who bucked the Democratic Party and endorsed President Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, has no regrets about that decision. Kerry did not fully understood the need to support Israel at the time, he says. “That is not an issue in this election,” Koch writes in a statement…
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Life Israel’s ‘Non-Jewish Jews’
The JTA has a great story on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel under its Law of Return, and yet are not officially regarded as Jews by the state because their mothers are not Jewish. They live in Jewish society, many have Jewish ancestry and identify…
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Life Loving Israel’s ‘Bazaar of the Bizarre’
Jacob Savage has penned a colorful love letter to Israel’s most maligned building: Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. He writes: Subcultures have embraced various corners of the building. Some storefronts are exclusively in Thai, some in Russian, some in English. Of course there is Hebrew, which in much of the station seems almost like an…
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Life The Yankees Look East to Zion
The Yankees may not have yet picked a successor for departing manager Joe Torre, but they have made some minor announcements in the past few days, signing two stars from this season’s Israel Baseball league to minor-league contracts. The Yankees organization picked up Jason Rees, an outfielder with the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox who hit…
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Life We the Israelis
Ha’aretz’s Shahar Ilan offers a fascinating and thorough look at efforts to draft a constitution for Israel.
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