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Tigers summon the tribe, swap Prince Fielder for Ian Kinsler
Detroit is bringing in the Jews. A couple of weeks after hiring Brad Ausmus as manager, the Tigers on Wednesday traded for Ian Kinsler, previously of the Texas Rangers, to play second base.
Yeshiva boy to barbecue sauce master
On a Saturday evening in downtown Los Angeles, as the somewhat surreal hush started to descend on Broadway following the weekend daytime hustle, diners gathered around an open kitchen at Umamicatessen, the flagship outpost of the reigning champ of nouveau burger chains.
U.S. says ‘very hard’ to clinch deal as Iran nuclear talks resume
Major powers resumed talks on Wednesday on a preliminary agreement to curb Iran\’s nuclear program with the United States warning it would be \”very hard\” to clinch a breakthrough deal this week and Tehran flagging \”red lines.\”
Singer Adam Levine named People’s sexiest man alive
Singer Adam Levine, the frontman of the Grammy Award-winning rock group Maroon 5 and a judge on the hit NBC singing show \”The Voice,\” was named People magazine\’s sexiest man alive, the magazine announced on Tuesday.
Survivors to mark 75th anniversary of Kindertransport
On the evening of Dec. 2, a small group of elderly men and women, some with their children and grandchildren, will gather at a Burbank mall to mark the 75th anniversary of a heartbreaking, yet uplifting, episode of the Nazi era, known as the Kindertransport (in English, Children’s Transport).
Barack or Bibi? Trust, loyalty and Iran
On Rosh Hashanah 2012, just a few weeks before the presidential election, Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe offered his congregants a sermon titled “The Most Important Question in the World Today.”
World powers, Iran in new attempt to clinch nuclear deal
Big powers resumed talks on Wednesday on a preliminary deal to curb Iran\’s nuclear program with Russia and Britain confident a breakthrough could be clinched and Iran spelling out \”red lines\” but saying it wanted friendly ties with all nations.
Israeli couples say ‘I don’t’ to Orthodox Jewish weddings
For most Israelis in the Jewish state, there is one legal way to get married – God\’s way. Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on the most precious moments of their lives.
Israel, U.S. successfully test David’s Sling anti-missile system
A team of Israeli and American defense officials completed a successful test of the jointly produced David’s Sling anti-missile system in Israel.