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December 10, 2014
Jews and Liberalism: Is the civil religion going to last?
In what may be an urban legend, a rabbi with a luxurious beard is said to have sat on the left side in the Frankfurt Assembly during the Revolution of 1848. Asked why, he replied: “Because Jews have no right.”
In support of Israel’s national identity bill
The collapse of the Netanyahu government is very much the tragedy of a death foretold.
UC grad students endorse Israel divestment by 30 point margin
Another domino has fallen in California for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the passage of a divestment resolution sponsored by UAW 2865, a union that represents more than 13,000 University of California graduate students.
Clean-up of Israeli desert oil spill could take years
Ecologists said on Wednesday it could take years to clean up a massive oil spill that flooded an Israeli nature reserve with up to five million litres of crude and threatened to spread to the Red Sea shore and neighboring Jordan.
Cutting out the drool: How Hollywood sanitizes disease and disability
When I was growing up and going to the movies almost every weekend, I rarely saw a character with any type of disability or life-threatening disease featured in a film, unless it was a three-hankie movie like “Love Story,” in which the female lead, Ali MacGraw, seemed to get more beautiful as she (spoiler alert!) lost her valiant fight with a terminal illness.
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