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July 28, 2014
Struck by Venice lightning: A first person account of a chaotic day at the beach
On Sunday afternoon, I was knee-deep in the ocean, right next to the Venice Fishing Pier, when the deadly lightning bolt hit the water.
Cruz lifts hold on State nominees prompted by FAA ban
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) lifted his hold on State Department nominees after the Federal Aviation Agency explained to him its reasons for a 36-hour ban on flights to Tel Aviv.
Dermer: Attacks on Kerry ‘unwarranted’
Israeli criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry is “unwarranted,” the Israeli ambassador to Washington said, as U.S. officials made public their unhappiness with the attacks.
Holocaust victim, artist Charlotte Salomon’s life premieres as opera
The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called \”Life? or Theatre?\” before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age 26, carrying her unborn child.
The Personal Is Not The Political: Haftarat Shabbat Hazon, Isaiah 1:1-27
Obama tells Netanyahu he wants immediate humanitarian cease-fire
President Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he wants an “immediate, unconditional humanitarian” cease-fire in the war with Gaza, based on a process Israel has made clear it opposes.