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Life Forgetting A Child In A Car Can Have Deadly Consequences. A New Israeli Device Promises to Prevent It.
Every nine days a child in the United States dies from vehicular heat stroke. Most parents think it can’t happen to them, and yet statistics reveal that 55% of the time tragedy strikes, it is the child’s parent that unknowingly left them inside the vehicle, according to KidsandCars.org. Adam Tannenbaum, a technology strategist and father…
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Opinion Peter Beinart: I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs
Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids. Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded. The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island on which my maternal grandmother’s family spent more than four centuries following their 15th century expulsion from Spain. We travelled there for…
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Opinion How A ‘Misunderstanding’ Led To Death And Destruction In Gaza
There is only one reason why Gaza and Israel’s South were dragged into yet another devastating confrontation between the IDF and Hamas: toxic masculinity. We now know that another redundant escalation was sparked by a mistake. IDF soldiers were patrolling Gaza’s perimeter fence when they heard something and thought they were being shot at. So…
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Fast Forward Israel And Hamas Agree To Gaza Truce
Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed on a truce on Thursday, two Palestinian officials said, an understanding that would end an escalation in fighting that has drawn mutual threats of war. There was no formal comment from Israel, but an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity denied…
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The Schmooze Sacha Baron Cohen’s Obsession with Israel Revealed on ‘Who is America’
Four episodes of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who is America” Showtime series now live and breathe in the homes and stone cold hearts (depending on your feelings about Cohen’s brand of satire) of our fellow Americans. So far, we’ve seen a group of duped congresspeople endorsing Cohen’s fake Israeli “Kinderguardian” program that aims to arm “gifted”…
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Community The Nation-State Law’s Authors Are Fanatics — As Are Many Of Its Opponents
There has always been a separation between national pride and national fanaticism. National pride is the natural expression of a clear and determined identity. National fanaticism, on the other hand, is the expression of a lack of security, of safety in one’s identity. The authors of the Nation-State Law and those who have set out…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rockets Hit Near Israeli City Of Beersheba As Fighting Flares
A long-range rocket fired from Gaza struck an uninhabited area outside the largest city in southern Israel on Thursday, Israeli Army Radio reported, hours after a Palestinian official said an end to a surge in cross-border fighting could be near. Army Radio said the rocket was a long-range Grad capable of reaching Israel’s heartland and…
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Fast Forward 9 Israelis Wounded In Hamas Rocket Salvo — Palestinian Mom And Baby Killed In Retaliatory Strikes
At least 9 Israelis were wounded when Gaza militants fired scores of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with air strikes on Wednesday despite talk from both sides of progress towards a possible truce to avert a fourth war in a decade. A senior member of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls…
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