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B’shallah: Hands Up!

By David Hazony. The stories in this week’s reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit.  A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, “Ancient Israel’s Bipolar Moment.” Or, even more flippantly, “Hands Up!”

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Love as the Meaning of Life – Beshalach

by . One of the fundamental principles that the Torah teaches, and the book of Exodus in particular, is the fact that all emanates from Creator and is sustained by Him. Understanding this in a deeper level means that we are His invention and not all the way around.

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A Portrait of Israeli Jews

The Israeli Democracy Institute today formally presents the findings of the third Guttman-AVI CHAI report, A Portrait of Israeli Jews: Beliefs, Observance, and Values of Israeli Jews. Based on a survey conducted by IDI’s Guttman Center for Surveys for the AVI CHAI Foundation in 2009, the report is a sequel to two earlier studies conducted in 1991 and 1999. Taken together, the three surveys present a unique continuum of Jewish religiosity in Israel.

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U.S. funds used for Palestinian textbooks that preach hate

On the cover of a UNRWA-funded textbook, the image of a Palestinian stamp has a blank space on the bottom left where a Hebrew inscription belongs. It was one of numerous examples speaker Arnon Groiss used in a congressional briefing to show the anti-Israel rhetoric young Palestinians are being taught. Photo by Suzanne Pollak. By Suzanne Pollak

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TAU Microbiologists Engineer ‘Superbug’ Cleaner for Hospitals

Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria Israel news photo: courtesy of USCDC. Tel Aviv University scientists create a liquid solution to help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and keep patients safe in hospitals. By Chana Ya’ar

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Defending American lives, redefining the future – Israel

Kibbutz Sasa saves the lives of countless American troops with its advanced armor technologies. Ambassador Shapiro saw this first hand on January 30 when he visited the Plasan factory in northern Galilee.

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