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Voices of conflict arise in ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’
“It’s complicated,” Aaron Davidman says as he paces a bare stage at the beginning of “Wrestling Jerusalem.”
FAA extends Ben Gurion Airport ban another 24 hours
The Federal Aviation Administration extended for another day its ban on flights to Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
Military airfield lands as alternative to banned Ben Gurion
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.
Delta grounds flights to Israel, diverts plane to Paris
Delta Airlines suspended flights into Tel Aviv until further notice and diverted a flight on its way there due to rocket fire from Gaza.\n
Guarding Ben-Gurion
A dapper man, wearing his signature safari-style hat, 90-year-old Aaron Friedman becomes exuberant when he shares his tales of being David Ben-Gurion’s bodyguard, a confidant of Yitzhak Shamir and of the fame he enjoyed while being a lifeguard on the beaches of Tel Aviv.
Begin biography moving, not convincing
In his new biography, “Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul” (New York: Next Book, Schocken), Daniel Gordis writes passionately…
New emigres joining the military land in Israel
A charter aliyah flight carrying 127 young men and women who will be joining the Israel Defense Forces landed in Israel.
Israel in the eyes of Harvey Pekar
Ever since Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” won a Pulitzer Prize, no apologies need to be made for the aspirations of comic book artists to enter the realm of literature. R. Crumb, for example, recently rendered nothing less exalted than the Book of Genesis as a graphic novel. And Marjane Satrapi applied the same techniques to a best-selling work of memoir in “Persepolis.”
Opinion: Agreements with Israeli schools a turning point for UC Irvine
Few universities have garnered as much international attention and Jewish communal concern over student-led, anti-Israel and sometimes anti-Semitic activities on campus than the University of California, Irvine (UCI).