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• 05.14.08
  Rocket Slams into the Top of a Crowded Mall in the Coastal City of Ashkelon, Israel   Steves' blogs (0)

  People look on after a Grad rocket hit a mall in Ashkelon, wounding several, Wednesday afternoon.
  Photo: Channel 10

  While writing this entry a rocket slammed into a shopping mall in the coastal town of Ashkelon fromNorthern Gaza seriously wounding 3, including a mother and child. Latest report has at least 14 wounded.
  In April [...]

• 05.07.08
  Today we remember our fallen soldiers and tonight we celebrate our 60 years as a modern Jewish nation.   Steves' blogs (1)

  Much has been said in the international press about our 60th anniversary, most of it quite negative and mean-spirited if not down right anti-Semitic. The doom and gloom anti-Israel, anti-Zionists of every persuasion seem to grab all the headlines. But in reality, we are living in one of the most vibrant places in the world.
  Our [...]

• 02.18.08
  Introducing Deborah Friedes: Dancer and Dance Scholar   Deborah Friedes: Dancer and Dance Scholar (0)

  Deborah Friedes
  When I told acquaintances in the United States that I was moving to
  Israel to research contemporary dance on a Fulbright grant, most of
  them had the same reaction: why Israel?
  When I told acquaintances in Israel that I had moved to Tel Aviv to
  research contemporary dance, I received a slightly larger set of
  responses:
  1)      Have [...]

• 02.09.08
  Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan: An Inspiration and Challenge of a Woman Rabbi in Israel.   Jewish Idea Series (0)

  Jewish Renewal in Israel, the only rabbi from the Jewish Renewal
  movement leading a congregation in Israel is Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan.
  Brought up in a national religious Jewish family in Jerusalem, years of
  standard orthodox traditional observance and behavior brought her and
  her British born husband to seek a different, more creative and
  spiritual way to be Jewish.
  She received [...]

   

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• 01.19.08
  Normal Like All The Nations ?   Steves' blogs (0)

  I was very interested in learning how Prof. Yigal Schwartz sees the
  current Israeli phase of our people’s perpetual encounter with the
  concept of normalcy (Haaretz Magazine Jan 1 08). I also appreciate his
  documentation of one literary form that publicly expresses and manifests
  our abnormal behavior!**
  This obsession we have with being normal is I believe, one of our [...]

• 01.03.08
  A Response to The Haaretz Israeli newspaper op-ed commenting on the controversy of prisoner release by Israel.   Yorams' blogs (0)

  for the sake of all Creation
  Last Friday (Dec 28th) Haaretz Israeli newspaper published an op-ed commenting on the controversy of prisoner release by Israel

  I appreciate the subject of the release of prisoners being brought to the awareness of your readers. (Reconciliation begins in prison Akivar Eldar Weeks End Dec28)
  From the perspective [...]

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