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December 16, 2011
Obama to meet with Ehud Barak
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet with President Obama on Friday morning, according to sources.
Roseanne Sings Israeli National Anthem—And It’s Good!
In her television studio in El Segundo, Roseanne Barr is singing the Israeli national anthem — and it’s good.
The week that was in Israel
Two Israelis made world headlines this week. In freezing Stockholm, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Haifa Technion (Israel’s Institute of Technology) won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. In sunny Perth, Australia, Lee Korzits won the gold medal at the women’s Sailing World Championships, bringing her closer to the 2012 London Olympics.
Christopher Hitchens: A rabbi remembers a friend and fellow debater
In his brilliant history of early modern England, “The Ends of Life,” historian Keith Thomas quotes a translator named George Petrie who wrote in 1581, “The only way to win immortality is either to do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading.” Christopher Hitchens is, by this reckoning, twice immortal.
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