Harry Potter to play gay Jewish poet
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Ginsberg was recently played by another Jewish actor, James Franco, last year in “Howl.”
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December 12, 2011
Rocket attack on Israel fails
A group linked to al-Qaida botched an attempt to fire a rocket into Israel from Lebanon.
A Katyusha launched from southern Lebanon fell short Monday, wounding a woman in the village of Hula, just over the border from Israel, according to Israel’s Army Radio, which cited Lebanese security officials.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, a terrorist group named after a Palestinian who helped found al-Qaida, took responsibility.
A rocket salvo from Lebanon struck northern Israel late last month, causing no casualties but shaking confidence in the frontier’s quiet holding. Last week, a bomb wounded French troops in a U.N. peacekeeper force in southern Lebanon, where Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas fought a war in 2006.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a Jerusalem briefing that the spate of violence “serves Syrian interests”—a suggestion that Damascus, which has been beset by months of civil war and citizen revolts, sought to distract world attention.
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Ragen loses plagiarism suit
Israeli author Naomi Ragen lost a plagiarism suit regarding her best-selling book “Sotah.”
The Jerusalem District Court ruled Sunday that Ragen, a Jerusalem-based writer, was in breach of copyright with “Sotah” because parts closely resembled the 1990 book “Growing Up with My Children: A Jewish Mother’s Diary.”
The court awarded the complainant, U.S.-born author Sarah Shapiro, approximately $250,000 in damages.
Ragen deplored the ruling, and was quoted in the Israeli media as saying that while she may have been inspired by Shapiro’s book, it was not tantamount to plagiarism.
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Barak predicts fall of ayatollahs
Iran’s clerical regime is waning but would be boosted by gaining nuclear weapons, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
Addressing a Vienna conference Sunday, Barak repeated calls for world powers to crack down on Iran’s nuclear program with “paralyzing” sanctions.
“This regime in Iran, the ayatollahs, they will not be there, I believe, in 10 or 15 years. It is against the nature of the Iranian people and what happens all around the world,” he said.
“But if they turn nuclear they might assure another layer of immunity, political immunity for the regime in the same way that Kim Jong-il assured his,” Barak added, referring to the leader of North Korea.
Student-led protests erupted in Iran following the disputed 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but since then have been mostly suppressed. Barak voiced hope that the anti-regime demonstrations of the Arab Spring would “jump” over the Persian Gulf into Iran.
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Netanyahu says Eichmann capture shaped Jewish history
On the 50th anniversary of Adolf Eichmann’s capture for trial in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the event shaped Jewish history.
“Eichmann’s capture and bringing to trial were a turning point at which the State of Israel and the Jewish people began to exact justice on their persecutors,” Netanyahu said Monday at the official unveiling of a Knesset display of memorabilia from the 1961 secret mission in Argentina.
At the time, Israeli agents tracked Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, in Buenos Aires and spirited him to Israel. The German fugitive was put on trial in Jerusalem and executed for his crimes.
The Knesset exhibit includes the syringe with which Eichmann was drugged by his captors, never-before-seen photographs from the mission and forged papers used by the agents.
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Streisand fights for women’s hearts
” title=”Huffington Post” target=”_blank”>Huffington Post. The part that Streisand has an issue with is that despite these statistics, “only 24 percent of participants in all heart-related studies are women.”
“Throughout my life, gender inequality has always concerned me,” Streisand said. “Whether it’s making a movie about it or becoming involved in women’s issues. And in this case, gender really DOES matter when it comes to medical science. How can you treat a woman for a life-threatening ailment based on research done on men? Especially when women’s hearts are physiologically different than men’s hearts.”
So how can you treat women with heart disease based on research done on men? Right. You can’t.
For past Barbara Streisand coverage:
” title=”Don’t mess with this Jewish mother” target=”_blank”>Don’t mess with this Jewish mother
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