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Opinion My tax dollars — and yours — are helping hold my sister hostage
The US is both fighting and funding a terror organization in Iraq
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Opinion Egypt Isn’t Syria. One Is Fixable. One, Not So Much
Israel’s Walla News site offers a fascinating and, I think, crucial insight (in Hebrew) into the turmoil in Egypt and Syria. It’s by Dror Ze’evi, a professor of Turkish and Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. He writes that the two conflicts, however similar or related they might appear on the surface,…
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News Rabbi Lauds Bahrain King Despite Abuses
Prominent New York Rabbi Marc Schneier has returned from the Bahrain claiming a major advance in Jewish dialogue with Islam: a promise by the Gulf state’s ruler to convene a first ever meeting of religious leaders from both faiths in the kingdom. Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, returned from his trip on…
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