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March 15, 2011
Israel seizes ship carrying weapons for Gaza strip [VIDEO]
Israel\’s Navy intercepted a ship bound for Egypt that the Israeli military said was smuggling weapons for use by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.Israel\’s Navy intercepted a ship bound for Egypt that the Israeli military said was smuggling weapons for use by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.
View Park ends Valley Torah’s state championship run
Nathaniel Liberman played through muscle cramps in both legs on Thursday night, but he couldn\’t overcome them. And neither could Valley Torah overcome a fourth-quarter comeback by View Park, falling 69-68, as the Knights slayed the Wolfpack\’s hopes of a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division 5 state championship in the quarterfinal round on March 10.
Retelling Purim: Q & A with Mordechai, Esther, Vashtie and Hayman
With Purim just a grogger’s turn away on March 19, it\’s time to reroll the scroll of Esther and take another look at the whole megillah. It\’s a story with characters so lifelike, I should quote them. That would be news. But lacking a time machine, I was still able to go to the source to hear what Mordecai, Esther, Haman and Vashti have to say: I interviewed prominent people — Jews and a non-Jew — whose names either come from the Megillah or sound like they are straight from the scroll:
The Fogel family funeral [SLIDESHOW]
Photos from the funeral of the Fogel family, who were victims of last weekend\’s murder in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
Israelis observe five minutes for Shalit
Israelis observed five minutes of silence in honor of captive soldier Gilad Shalit. The country came to a halt Tuesday morning as Israelis observed one minute for every year that Shalit has been held captive by Hamas in Gaza.
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