Poem: Jewish Dream #18
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
The dream is not so simple — learn what is between your mouth & God’s ear…
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July 23, 2014
‘The Lion’s Gate’: Firsthand accounts of the Six Day War
Jonathan Kirsch
July 23, 2014
From a distance of a half-century, the Six Day War looks very different indeed from what is happening today on the Gaza border, but “The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War” by Steven Pressfield (Sentinel) is a kind of companion reader for those of us who are following the news hour by hour.
Military airfield lands as alternative to banned Ben Gurion
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Foreign airlines banned from using Ben Gurion Airport will be able to use a military airfield in southern Israel as an alternative, Israel’s transportation minister said.
JVS scholarships encourage college students to give back
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Max Goldstein was 15 years old when he hopped on a plane to Caracas, Venezuela, to spend his sophomore year of high school as an exchange student.
Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza, Thai worker dies in Ashkelon attack
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza fighting and a foreign worker died from injuries suffered in a mortar attack from Gaza on a hothouse in Ashkelon.\n
In Gaza, IDF ground operation takes a toll
Simone Wilson
July 23, 2014
Up until last weekend, Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza strip seemed to be just another hard round of fire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Gaza’s ruling party, Hamas — the latest in a cyclical pattern of violence that repeats itself every two or three years.
FAA extends Ben Gurion Airport ban another 24 hours
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
The Federal Aviation Administration extended for another day its ban on flights to Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
An Israeli summer
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
My children do not understand the complexities nor the myriad issues surrounding Operation “Protective edge,” Israel’s defensive ground response to over 1,500 rockets launched from Hamas during the past two weeks.
Villaraigosa to FAA: Reverse ban on Ben Gurion flights
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is urging the Federal Aviation Administration to rescind its ban on U.S. airline carriers flying to and from Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
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