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June 18, 2013
“Curb” star Jeff Garlin spends two days in jail following parking lot confrontation
A message to the world – an interview with Michael Dickson, Israel Director of StandWithUs
Time to enter the Iranian bazaar on the nuclear issue
The election of the cleric Shia Mujtahid Hassan Rouhani is the perfect Iranian move in a nuclear chess match where Iran seems to be consistently outmaneuvering the United States.
As protests rock Turkey, Israel watches with ambivalence
As the budding protest movement in Turkey against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to gain a foothold, Israel is watching the developments with some measure of ambivalence.
Israel’s austerity budget advances in Knesset
Israel’s Knesset approved the first reading of the 2013-14 state budget, which has been touted as closing socio-economic gaps in the country.
Engraver etches wrong birth year on Ed Koch tombstone
A tombstone engraver made Ed Koch nearly two decades younger after carving the wrong birth year into the New York City mayor’s granite slab.
N.Y. yeshiva: Decision to boot students from plane ill conceived, not anti-Semitic
The decision to eject the senior class of the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn from a flight was not anti-Semitic, an internal school report found.
Iran’s president-elect Rohani: More of the same or a bridge to the West?
Former national security adviser, former nuclear negotiator, a decades-old friendship with the supreme leader — Hassan Rohani is as Iranian establishment as it gets.
In Israel, Sharon Stone meets her biggest fan, visits Hadassah Hospital
It’s unclear whether this guy is a fan of Sharon Stone or a fan of campy t-shirts. Either way, he had what was surely a surreal moment yesterday when, dressed in a “Basic Instinct” shirt, he bumped into Stone on the streets of Tel Aviv.
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