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Getting Ready for the Winter Freeze

E B. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 10:38 pm
On Wednesday Bibi, expecting that he will get cabinet approval, will announce a 10-month settlement construction freeze for the West Bank. A statement this week from the Prime Minister’s office ...
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From Russia With Love

E B. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 10:36 am
Gee-Wiz – what’s happening in Russia these days? Corruption, lies, murder, and it all seems to get suspiciously brushed under the carpet away from the public eye – it is really beginning to ...
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Embarrassing Family Feud or the Loud Voice of a Lion Heart

E B. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 7:41 am
As Noam, Aviva and Yoel Schalit are coming to Jerusalem to address the Knesset, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi has publicly recommended that the Prime Mini...
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Caine Mutiny in the West Bank

E B. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 10:05 pm
It has long been controversial for modern Orthodox Jews (or ‘dati leumi’) to serve in the IDF, because it sometimes means that they have to do things that they are not only politically opp...
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MIZZE Designer Jewelry Made for Luck

E B. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 1:42 pm
When the Jews of the Diaspora began moving around the world in an attempt to assimilate into new societies while sustaining their own culture, they found success in two main fields; the first was as m...
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Let's Go Out to Dinner and See a Movie

E B. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 10:41 am
Last week we sent a Mazal Tov to Israeli film director Haim Tabakman, whose flick “Eyes Wide Open“ has won awards in the MedFilm Festival in Rome, as well as the Ghent Film Festival in Bel...
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More Clashing of Worlds in Jerusalem

E B. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 5:50 am
Despite some violence and 1,500 ultra-Orthodox protesters, shouting”Shabes! Shabes!” Intel Corp. says that it has no plans of closing down their chip making factory in the industrial zone ...
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Tnuva Cottage Cheese Hits New Jersey

E B. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 2:23 am
I got this from my people in NJ – they walked into Kings and saw this. Mazal Tov Tnuva! It’s about time the good people of NJ found out what real Cottage Cheese tastes like! Related pos...
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A Dangerous Game of Illusions

E B. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 5:07 pm
Leaders of the Palestinian Authority are planning to launch a diplomatic campaign to gain world support for a Palestinian state. The state would include the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusal...
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Mazal Tov to Haim Tabakman

E B. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 9:43 am
Mazal Tov to Haim Tabakman, an Israeli film director whose first feature-length picture, “Eyes Wide Open” won first prize for the “Eros and Psyche” award at the 15th annual Med...
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Arnold Does Jerusalem

E B. posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 9:53 am
It ain’t Clinton, Mr. or Mrs. It ain’t Tony Blair, Mother Teresa or Kofi Annan. So who could it be coming to our Holiest City, searching for bits and pieces of peace…that is if the Mes...
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These Flames Are Eternal

E B. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 7:16 am
Last Wednesday a collection of coins burned and charred from the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70, were displayed for the very first time. Altogether 70 coins were found...
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Bring Shalit Home Finally, Urges Bereaved IDF Moms

E B. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 5:18 pm
A group of bereaved mothers, including Miki Goldwasser, Rona Ramon and Esther Wachsman, sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu this week, requesting to meet with him urgently to advance th...
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What Would Jesus Do, Really?

E B. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 8:13 am
As it stands, it is very taboo for Jews to visit the Temple Mount. When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon went up there in 2000, it caused the second Intifada. Jews visiting the ruin, which houses t...
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Hezbollah Countdown 2010: Hezbollah Brings Terrorism to the Class Room and Farther

E B. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 5:05 am
In an action this week Hezbollah proved that indeed they are not only anti-Zionist but altogether anti-Jewish – of course given this powerful terror organization’s track record of Holocaust de...
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Is Washington Become Anti-Israel?

E B. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 9:45 am
Eric Cantor of the US House of Representatives told JPost: The possibility is there…There have been incidences of late that do not indicate that we have challenges on that front, and I’m very...
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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor

E B. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 9:39 am
Searching for the truth about Jewish History became a game of deceit and backstabbing last week in America. There are two schools of thought regarding the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Many histori...
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Navy Seals Commandeer Antiguan Ship Carrying Iranian Weapons to Hezbollah

E B. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 12:53 pm
During an overnight raid on Tuesday last week, the Israeli Navy, about 100 nautical miles off the coast west of Israel and near Cyprus, seized hundreds of tons of weaponry on a ship sailing with an An...
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Spy vs Spy

E B. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 9:40 am
Earlier last week, Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union who had served prison time for spying for the KGB was shot to death while driving in a Mercedes in downtown M...
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Is Abbas Still The Boss?

E B. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 7:36 am
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to not run for re-election in January. The threat, says...
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Hillary Leaves Settlers Freezing

E B. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 11:06 am
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has offered Israel half praise and half criticism on their plans for a semi-freeze of settlement expansion. On Monday she said that the proposed plan “falls...
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Mazal Tov to Hebrew University

E B. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 10:52 am
Mazal Tov to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It has been ranked among the world’s top 100 institutes of higher education, out of a complete list of 500. The annual ranking by the Centre for ...
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More Trouble in Paradise: The Unruly Neighbors

E B. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 10:04 am
The Adhan is the Muslim call to prayer. Five times a day it gets broadcast from the loudspeaker of mosques. In Jewish areas of East Jerusalem, residents have complained that the volume of the Adhan ha...
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Shooting At American Synagogue

E B. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 8:47 am
This last Thursday morning at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue, in North Hollywood, a gunman opened fire and shot two people in the legs. The shooting happened at about 6:20 am, around the...
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The Future of Jewish Web-Surfing

E B. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 4:26 am
Last August saw the release of 4Wall LLC’s Jewish Internet Metric Study. It is a project aimed towards helping the Jewish community understand the “hurdles and opportunities” present...
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Tough To Kill: Israel's Economy and the Global Economic Collapse

E B. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 6:11 pm
“When it comes to U.S. military résumés, Silicon Valley is illiterate. It’s a shame. What a waste of the kick-ass leadership talent coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan.” JON MEDVED Altho...
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Remembering Yitzhak Rabin

E B. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 12:00 pm
Thursday marked the 14 year anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Today in the Jerusalem Post was a story about a group of famous Israeli politicians who were strongly opposed to Rabin...
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Trouble in Paradise: The Latest From Al-Haram al-Sharif

E B. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 11:06 am
Sunday was a day of chaos in Jerusalem’s old-city – which houses the holiest sites for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Organized Palestinian protestors stormed the area which houses the a...
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And The Show Down Continues…

E B. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 9:05 am
A new week, soon a new month and a new year, and the world still anxiously speculates on whether or not Israel will attack Iran; and firstly whether Iran will finally begin to come around to the West&...
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Hezbollah Operatives Working Against Israel in New York

E B. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 4:20 pm
Israeli security and intelligence got a bit of a wake-up call today, October 27, when an Indian man, living in New York, and his accomplice were charged with providing guns and other weapons to Hezbol...
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World Wide Suicide

E B. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 7:31 am
Former Maccabi Tel Aviv manager Moni Fanan is not unique in his tragic suicide. The last year, characterized by the current recession, has been responsible for countless other suicides and tragic inc...
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A Sad Farewell to an Israeli Sports Icon

E B. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 7:07 am
The ex-manager and vice chairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, Moni Fanan was found hanging in his North Tel Aviv apartment Tuesday, in an obvious suicide. Those who knew Fanan were aware ...
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Mosh Ben Ari – One Perfect Memory

E B. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 11:15 am
Mosh Ben Ari is an amazing singer. This is from his latest album, its called One Perfect Memory (Zikaron Ehad Mushlam). Shabbat Shalom Related posts Yalla Boy by Michael Greilsammer (0) A Pra...
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Who's Going to Break Up Haredi Marriage Monopoly?

E B. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 11:10 am
My wedding has finally made it to the news. No, I don’t think the state of Israel particularly cares whether I, personally, got married or not, but here’s what I mean. When I started askin...
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Internet Justice Rewarded To Israeli Tech Master Mind

E B. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 6:37 am
You know when you surf the Web using your trusty Web 2.0 browser, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, or whatever it is that you use; and you navigate your way around, by typing in the HTML address ...
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Is Richard Goldstone An Anti-Semite?

E B. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 11:35 am
Head of the UN fact finding Mission on Operation Cast Lead, Richard Goldstone, released in the Jerusalem Post an op-ed article, in defense of his, mainly Israeli and American criticizers. The article ...
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UK Commander Testimony in UN Challanges Goldstone Report

E B. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 3:49 am
This is something you don’t see everyday. This is the testimony of Col. Richard Kemp. He disagrees with Goldstone Report that claims that IDF committed war crimes in Operation Cast Lead. His ...
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Iran To Find The Truth

E B. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 5:56 am
On Sunday a suicide bombing targeted the Iranian National Guard and killed 26 people. The deputy commander of the Guards’ ground force, General Noor Ali Shooshtari, and the Guards’ chief p...
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Another Blood Libel, This Time from Turkey

E B. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 5:19 am
It’s now gone farther than Turkey banning Israel from a joint military exercise with the US and other EU countries, or Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan ripping Shimon Peres in public at Davos, or ...
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Defense Ministry Spends a Million Shekels on French Tour

E B. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 4:44 am
What’s a million shekels off the public’s back when you’re talking about swanky French hotels that cost 2,500 Euro a night for six rooms…two of which nobody actually stayed in…fo...
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Is Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei In a Coma?

E B. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 10:27 am
Rumor’s a ‘brewin! Now this sounds all cloak-and-dagger and such. Begin playing Mission Impossible Theme now. It indeed looks and seems so, and if so, then talk about really good timing on...
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Trouble in Kadima

E B. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 6:59 am
I attended a political event a few months ago where the speaker stated emphatically, and what may be construed as presumptuously, that if anybody wants to make a difference in Israel politically, ther...
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Gilad Shalit II? Close Call…

E B. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 12:30 pm
Here’s the quick scoop. Cab driver Dudu Badri picked up a guy in Beit Shemesh, who then forced him at knife point to drive to a Palestinian village. He was then beaten by three men who stole his...
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Civil Unions under the Microscope in Israel

E B. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 8:26 am
The place of Civil Unions in Israel is being analyzed in Knesset, as preliminary versions of final legislation bills are being looked over. Knesset Law Committee chairman David Rotem, presented a bil...
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Elyashiv Aside, Here's the Good News

E B. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 11:28 am
Nishmat is a center for women’s learning and halachic instruction. Not that Torah learning institutions for women are all that rare, but this one sponsors a program that issues certification for...
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Haredi Rabbi Elyashiv: Please Don't Anger the Gentiles!

E B. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 10:42 am
Here are some of the edicts that Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who will turn 100 this coming April, has made lately. The internet is forbidden, Shabbat elevators are forbidden, women must acquiesce to ...
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Avigdor Lieberman's Back in the News

E B. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 10:34 am
About to be indicted for money laundering and bribery, Avigdor Lieberman has finally made a headline once again. Believed to be keeping a low profile, spending time in Africa while Barak and Bibi talk...
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US Plans to Attack Iran?

E B. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 8:16 am
Something fishy’s going on in the Department of Defense. An ABC news report yesterday seemed to suggest that America is accelerating the production of the MOP. This is not just any MOP. This i...
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Israel Gets another Nobel Prize

E B. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 8:14 am
We’re still on the ball, guys! Israeli scientist Ada Yonath has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She works at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, named after Israel’s first president Chaim...
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Another Likud Rally Against the Freeze

E B. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 8:03 am
Last month, September 9th, saw a much hyped, but much deflated Likud rally with a very confused message about whether Netanyahu was being strengthened or rebelled against by attendees of the rally. No...
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