Prime minister embarks on day of meetings with heads of parties in his coalition, with all factions set to meet together as they explore whether current government has a future.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Moment of truth for fractured Netanyahu coalition
Prime minister embarks on day of meetings with heads of parties in his coalition, with all factions set to meet together as they explore whether current government has a future.
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מועמד השמאל ניצח: חוק המריחואנה ניצל
טאבארה ואסקס, אונקולוג בן 74 שכיהן בעבר כנשיא אורוגוואי, זכה שוב בתפקיד ויחזור ללשכת הנשיאות לאחר שניצח בסיבוב השני בבחירות. ואסקס, צפוי להמשיך את מורשתו של קודמו, חוסה מוחיקה: קידום תוכנית המריחואנה
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Bush Admin. Spent Billions on an Iraqi Army with 50,000 “ghost” Soldiers
By Juan Cole | – Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi announced to his parliament on Sunday that inspectors had uncovered 50,000 non-existent soldiers in four divisions of the Iraqi Army. Their pay…
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עולה על מדים: אבנר נתניהו מתגייס לקרבי
בנו הצעיר של ראש הממשלה, שישרת במודיעין שדה, הגיע עם הוריו ואחיו ללשכת הגיוס בגבעת התחמושת. אבא בנימין: "מלאים בגאווה וגם בדאגה טבעית". אמא שרה: "שכל החיילים יחזרו בשלום הביתה"
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Jewish Students Have the Right to Feel Safe on Campus - Algemeiner
Jewish Students Have the Right to Feel Safe on Campus Algemeiner Fast forward to today and, in less than two years, the situation has become more grim for Jewish students. There has recently been a dramatic spike in anti-Semitic incidents on campuses nationwide. In fact, more than 40 percent of Jewish American ... |
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Why it makes Economic Sense for Universities to Divest from Fossil Fuels
By John Quiggin, The University of Queensland The controversy ignited by the Australian National University in October, when it decided to sell its shares in seven resources companies, has raised two important…
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In Hebron, Palestinian women face down daily settler home invasions
By Alex Shams and Salam Muharam (Ma’an News Agency) The alleyways of the Old City of Hebron leading away from the famed Ibrahimi mosque — where the biblical patriarch Abraham and his…
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From Informed Comment
Americans’ Personal Freedom falls to 21 in World
The Young Turks | — “”Americans’ assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the United States…
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From Informed Comment
Female Israeli fighter said abducted by Islamic State
Gill Rosenberg, in a photo which is presumed to have been taken in Iraq and which was uploaded to Facebook on November 9, 2014 An Israeli-Canadian woman who traveled to Iraq to fight alongside the Kurds there earlier this month has been abducted by Islamic State fighters, Hebrew media reported Sunday, citing Syrian jihadist-linked media. Gill Rosenberg, 31, was captured by jihadists near the flashpoint city of Kobani in the past few days, reports said.
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2014 Annual Informed Comment Fundraiser
By Juan Cole | — What an incredible year this has been! Informed Comment has gone from strength to strength. We expect 2015 to be as dramatic, and will continue to expand…
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Ukrainian Right Sector Parliamentarian Borislav Bereza Is Proud To Be Jewish
My meeting with Right Sector’s Borislav Bereza, newly elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, took place on a sunny Friday morning. We met at a table with a magnificent view of the Dnieper River on the third-floor food court of the Sky Mall in Kiev. Despite the prognostications of Russian television, the right wing and ultra-nationalist party that is widely considered to be emblematic of the new iteration of “Ukrainian Fascism” failed to breach the 5 percent threshold required for parliamentary representation. Only two of its deputies were elected from the party to represent specific constituencies, party leader Dmitry Yarosh and party speaker Bereza, who ran a slightly frenzied campaign that focused on his busting up illegal unlicensed bars and underground casinos. That Bereza is a proudly outspoken and synagogue-going Jew is often pointed out by those who do not agree with the mounting equivalence of Right Sector with neo-fascism.
We were put in touch by a mutual friend whom we both highly respect, a Kiev-based Orthodox Jewish film producer. Bereza is very tall and has a muscular build. He has the broad shoulders and wide gait of a boxer along with a receding hairline and piercing gray eyes. He wears a diamond earring in his left ear and sports smart blue blazers over polka dot blue shirts with the Ukrainian emblem pinned to his lapel. Loquacious, and bluntly plain spoken, he speaks in a quick flow of short and declarative sentences and often cannot wait for you to finish your sentence before launching into the breathless reply. The day before we met he had told a Ukrainian newspaper that “Putin understands very well that his modern Russia could very well follow in the footsteps of the USSR with a complete collapse.”
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My Daughters’ Dad Is Dead, but a Long Car Ride, Like Much Else, Makes Me Think of Him
It was Passover and, like our ancestors before us, we were traveling. We would arrive at my mother’s apartment late on Friday night, in time to help with Saturday’s set up. My mother has her big family Seder on whichever Saturday night falls within the eight days of Passover. She started this not when she had school-age children and we had to wake up early for school the next day, but when she had school-age grandchildren who—with the new tradition—do not have to wake up early for school the next day. I got out of work later than I had hoped, so it was dark. Headlights were glaring into my middle-aged eyes. As soon as we got in the car, I was ready to be at my mother’s—to have her care for us in all the ways she does—including, undoubtedly, with leftovers from the meal we missed.
To pass the time, 13-year-old Maya suggested we listen to a RadioLab podcast called “Blood.” She and I have a symbiotic relationship around podcasts in the car. She, the digital native, can set up my phone so podcasts are played through the car’s speakers, and I, the digital immigrant, pay the phone bill and keep the car trudging. She read the description of “Blood,” and she and her 10-year-old sister agreed to listen to it. My eyes focused on the road, I agreed as well.
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Remembering the Red Apple, an Iconic Roadside Restaurant in the Catskills
The Red Apple Rest opened in 1931, in Southfields, N.Y., and quickly became a place where people stopped to fill up their cars and their stomachs on the way to the hotels and bungalow colonies in the Catskills. It survived economic downturns, competing businesses, and the new highways that lured drivers away. By the time the restaurant closed its doors in 1984, it had become a legend for generations of diners. In her new memoir, Elaine Freed Lindenblatt, daughter of Big Apple’s founder Reuben Freed, shares her memories of the restaurant’s rise and fall.
By 1955, after nearly a quarter-century of operation, the restaurant had developed into an over a million-customer-a-year motorists’ mecca. It served perhaps twenty thousand people on a Sunday in peak season. During the weeks that the bungalows opened and New York City schools dismissed for the summer, one could barely get inside the door, let alone reach the counter to order or find a seat.
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יום האיי דו: אלפים נישאו בחתונה המונית בריו
מדי שנה נערך טקס מיוחד בברזיל עבור זוגות בעלי הכנסה נמוכה המתקשים לשלם על הוצאות חתונתם. 12 אלף איש התכנסו באולם מרקנזיניו לאירוע. צפו
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Two Weeks Following the Massacre, Policeman Details Events for Rav Kanievsky
Two weeks following the massacre in Kehillas Bnei Torah in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim, policeman Yitzchak Weizman on Sunday afternoon 8 Kislev arrived at the Bnei Brak home of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita to share the play-by-play details with the gadol hador. He explained how he tried to neutralize the terrorists and […]
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Israel Edges Closer To Early Election - Huffington Post
 Haaretz | Israel Edges Closer To Early Election Huffington Post JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's fractious coalition government seems headed for a breakup that could spark new elections against a backdrop of security turmoil inside the country, disputes over nationalist legislation and a deep freeze in peace efforts with ... Hundreds protest Israel's 'nation state' bill Welcome, Diaspora Jews, to the Israel you've been avoiding Netanyahu ally says Israel may need early elections |
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Israel calls for reparations for Middle Eastern Jews - The Times of Israel
 The Times of Israel | Israel calls for reparations for Middle Eastern Jews The Times of Israel Israel on Sunday marked the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries in the years after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin calling for financial reparations. Israel observes exodus from Middle East countries |
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Cabinet Approves Increasing the Participation of Disabled Persons in the Civil Service
The Cabinet, at its weekly meeting on Sunday 8 Kislev, approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s and Civil Service Commissioner Moshe Dayan’s proposal to increase the employment of people with disabilities in the civil service. According to the proposal disabled persons will receive representation of not lower than 3% of civil service employees by 2017. At […]
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From Yeshiva World News
Channel 10: PA Leader Will Never Recognize Israel
According to a Channel 10 News report, PA (Palestinian Authority) leader Abu Mazen announced once again on Shabbos that he will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The PA leader was addressing a foreign of Arab League foreign ministers, telling them that he is demanding US Secretary of State John Kerry work alongside him […]
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From Yeshiva World News
Could Qatar, Turkey be in jeopardy if PA brings Israelis before the ICC?
The basis for such a case is that Qatar and Turkey have each supported Hamas in some way.
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מוחים ומלחכים: עדר כבשים כובש את פריז
חקלאים בצרפת זועמים על אוזלת ידה של הממשלה בנושא תקיפות זאבים נגד מקור פרנסתם. בתגובה הם שלחו כבשים לבירה: "שומרים על הנוף"
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Middle East funds set to return to Gulf bourses once oil shock fades - The National
Middle East funds set to return to Gulf bourses once oil shock fades The National Middle East fund managers expect to put money back into Arabian Gulf stock markets in coming months once the shock of the plunge in oil prices fades, the latest Reuters survey of regional asset managers shows. The slide of Brent crude to $70 a barrel ... |
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
הצתה בביה"ס: "הילדות כבר מבינות מהו פשע שנאה"
יום הלימודים בבית הספר הדו-לשוני בשכונת פת בבירה נפתח בשיחות מורים, הורים ותלמידים, לצד פעילות משטרה וזיהוי פלילי. "יש אנשים שלא רוצים לראות חיים משותפים בעיר הזאת", אמרה אם לשתי בנות
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אמריקה דמעה: כששוטר לבן חיבק ילד שחור
הרוחות בארה"ב עדיין סוערות בעקבות ההחלטה שלא להעמיד לדין את השוטר הלבן שהרג את הנער השחור מייקל בראון במיזורי. בעצרת בפורטלנד נשא ילד בן 12 שלט שעליו נכתב "חיבוקים בחינם". שוטר לבן שהיה לידו לא פספס את ההזדמנות להפגין אחווה, חיבק אותו ותמונתם ריגשה מדינה שלמה
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ליצמן על חוקי הגיוס והגיור: "אם רוצים אותנו בקואליציה יצטרכו להחזיר את השעון אחורה"
יו"ר יהדות התורה נשאל אם נתניהו הבטיח שינוי בחוקים שקידמה הקואליציה בתמורה לתמיכה בבחירות. "השבוע נחליט", אמר. "אם הרצוג יבוא עם הצעה נשב ונדון איתו". על התיאום מול ש"ס: "מניח שדרעי ייתן את התשובה איתנו"
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At least 40 fighters killed in Syrian city of Kobani
At least 30 fighters on both sides were killed as Syrian Kurdish fighters and ISIS militants clashed in the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Saturday.
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From CNN.com - Middle East
Seven things you should know about Barry Shrage - Boston Globe
Seven things you should know about Barry Shrage Boston Globe Barry Shrage is the president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, one of the state's largest nonprofit organizations. A Bronx native, he ran a Jewish community center in New York and worked for the Jewish Federation in Cleveland before moving to Boston ... |
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Erdogan: Turkey's king of controversy
Turkish President has raised eyebrows around the world with his outlandish comments abroad but strikes a chord with conservative Turks at home.
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IDF chief praises IDF top brass after successor tapped
IDF Chief of Staff Gantz praises IDF generals for what was an impressively uneventful race to find his successor; comments come on backdrop of previous race for IDF top spot which was rife with scandal.
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Cairo Erupts as Mubarak, Adly Declared Innocent in Deaths of Protesters
By Juan Cole | — An Egyptian court on Saturday found found deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister Habib Adly not guilty in the killing of nearly 900 young…
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From Informed Comment
Goodyear Announces New General Manager for Middle East and Africa - PR Newswire (press release)
Goodyear Announces New General Manager for Middle East and Africa PR Newswire (press release) Jean-Denis Perche joins the Middle East and Africa region as General Manager, bringing with him a wealth of sales and marketing knowledge with ten years of experience at the Goodyear-Dunlop Group. |
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גנץ על מינוי הרמטכ"ל: "הקצונה בצה"ל התנהלה ללא ריב ומדון"
רב-אלוף בני גנץ התייחס להחלטת שר הביטחון וראש הממשלה למנות את סגנו האלוף גדי איזנקוט לרמטכ"ל הבא של צה"ל: "שמח שההחלטה נלקחה"
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Assault on Israel Shifts From Warfare to Lawfare
Last summer Hamas launched against Israel another round of warfare. The Jewish state responded with Operation Protective Edge.
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מינוי חדש למועמד לראשות המוסד
המשנה וסגן ראש המוסד לשעבר, רם בן ברק שמועמד להחליף את תמיר פרגו בסוף 2015, ימונה למנכ"ל המשרד לענייני מודיעין והמשרד לנושאים אסטרטגיים שיאוחדו למשרד אחד
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20% Efficiency gain through Printing Blu-Ray Disc Patterns on Solar Panels
Northwestern University News | — Megan Fellman writes: “An interdisciplinary research team [from Northwestern University] has discovered that the pattern of information written on a Blu-ray disc — and it doesn’t matter…
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From Informed Comment
Egypt’s Female Genital Mutilation Shame and the Failure of Prosecution
Human Rights Watch ul> (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities need to take clear action to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) following the country’s first trial on the crime ending in…
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From Informed Comment
The Workers Movement and Class Struggle in the Egyptian Revolution
Middle East Eye “The 2011 Egyptian revolution is usually thought of as an uprising against dictatorship and corruption, with the aim of establishing a European or American style democratic system. But underlying…
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From Informed Comment
Pope Francis in Turkey calls for interreligious dialogue to stop terrorism
Reuters | — “On the first day of his visit to Turkey, Pope Francis has called for interreligious dialogue “so that there will be an end of all forms of fundamentalism and…
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From Informed Comment
"לא רוצה לסכן אחרים". השוטר ממיזורי פורש
ימים אחדים לאחר שהוחלט כי לא יישפט, החליט דארן וילסון, שהרג את הנער השחור מייקל בראון והצית גל מחאה, להתפטר. "אני רוצה לאפשר לכולם לרפא את הפצעים", כתב במכתב ההתפטרות. "אני עלול לסכן אזרחים ושוטרים"
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Opposition leader Herzog: I will form Israel's next government - Jerusalem Post
 The Times of Israel | Opposition leader Herzog: I will form Israel's next government Jerusalem Post Netanyahu has vowed that the bill that would define Israel as the Jewish national state will preserve the rights of all Israeli citizens, while critics argue that it will discriminate against the country's minorities, including its Arab citizens who ... Lapid: 'I'm not scared of early elections' Herzog: I'll be Israel's Next Prime Minister |
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Defiant Hungarian doctor hid Jewish boy as Nazis scoured Budapest during ... - Washington Post
Defiant Hungarian doctor hid Jewish boy as Nazis scoured Budapest during ... Washington Post About the suffering of Jews. And about the two people she hid in her apartment, at times behind a large mirror when visitors came to call. By war's end, Madi, who was not Jewish, had filled 16 notebooks in handwritten English that serve as a grim ... |
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Coalition Runs Away from Elections and Delays Vote on Jewish State Bill - The Jewish Press
 The Jewish Press | Coalition Runs Away from Elections and Delays Vote on Jewish State Bill The Jewish Press Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to postpone a scheduled vote this week on the “Jewish State Bill,” during which time he will try to come up with a version that is acceptable to coalition partners, who does not want to see the government ... |
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Creating new portals to Jewish life - San Diego Jewish World
Creating new portals to Jewish life San Diego Jewish World SAN DIEGO — Faced with Jewish flight from institutional affiliation and a modern interfaith marriage rate nearing 60 percent, we need new cultural entry-points to the Jewish community to inspire Jews to engage in Jewish life and educate the next ... |
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הקאמבק: סרקוזי ינהיג את מפלגת האופוזיציה
נשיא צרפת לשעבר חזר בסערה לפוליטיקה, ניצח בבחירות לראשות מפלגתו ועשה צעד נוסף לעבר המרוץ לנשיאות ב-2017. אך מפלגתו כלואה במאבקיה הפנימיים ופרשנים מעריכים כי אחוזי התמיכה בו לא היו גבוהים מספיק
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Israel's foreign minister drafts regional peace plan
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has drawn a plan for achieving peace between Israel and its neighbours which includes ceding land for a future Palestinian state and the transfer of Israeli Arabs to live in it. It came amidst a series of crises that have threatened to dismantle the coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent weeks, Xinhua reported.
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Black Friday Spreads to Africa and the Middle East - Forbes
Black Friday Spreads to Africa and the Middle East Forbes There is no Thanksgiving in Africa and the Middle East, but there is a Black Friday. While 140 million Americans were shopping over this Black Friday holiday here, millions more were shopping online on two huge retailers whose names you've probably ... |
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Chinese olim have Golani Brigade in their sights
Three members of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng who made aliya five years ago are about to enlist in the IDF, and all three want to join the fabled combat unit.
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Desecrated Jewish Cemetery in Poland Slated for Destruction - Arutz Sheva
 Arutz Sheva | Desecrated Jewish Cemetery in Poland Slated for Destruction Arutz Sheva The Jewish community of Poland is working urgently to try and save the Jewish cemetery in Grodzisk, after the city's council began work on a construction project in the northern part of the city where the graveyard is located, putting it in direct danger. |
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