Posts By Steve
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Blogs
In Defense of the Nation-State
By Diana Muir Appelbaum. Daniel Gordis wants you to know that if you want tolerance, diversity and freedom, you should work for...
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Israeli-American Soldier Dances His Way Through the IDF
Most IDF soldiers march their way through basic training. Ron Bronstein shuffles. The 24-year-old St. Louis native enlisted in the IDF...
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Steve
A Tribute to the Golden City and Shuly Nathan – Jerusalem
Dedicated to the Golden City of Jerusalem, and to the wonderful Shuly Nathan. httpv://youtu.be/5NyqXB6b4c8 I have many versions of Yerushalayim...
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Peace and Quiet with Israeli Technology
Faber’s Sil-k Act hood, incorporating Silentium’s noise reduction technology (Photo credit: Faber) By DAVID SHAMAH, Times of Israel. Silentium’s noise cancellation...
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Worlds First Cardboard Bike – Meet the Israeli
Izhar Gafni goes for a spin on his cardboard bike. Nobody believed it would work, but an Israeli cycling enthusiast thought...
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The Ghost Of Yom Kippur, Israel’s Pearl Harbor
by Asaf Romirowsky When one looks at Israeli history, the two wars that changed and defined the country the most...
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Steve
Can Israel’s ultra-conservative communities join modern society?
An ultra-Orthodox family enjoys a rare Jerusalem snowfall. General education in Orthodox schools is “below Third World” by Gershom Gorenberg. “The...
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What 18th century, American founding fathers knew about Islam
By Yoram Ettinger. Since the 18th century, American founding fathers and scholars have been aware of deeply-rooted Islamic violence, terrorism, intolerance...
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From buttered croissants to military rations
Captain Michael Levi gave up a good physician’s life in France and followed his Jewish roots to the Holy Land.Photo credit:...
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Steve
Livin’ in a Booth – The Fountainheads
A musical parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads from the Ein Prat Academy, Israel http://foheads.com. httpv://youtu.be/oXx5Wp3GcSE A parody of Bruno Mars...
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Solar Sukkah in Kfar Sava Israel
Photo by elibrody. Succa, chosen by Kfar Saba Mayor Ben- Hamo, is the 1st of its kind in Israel to...
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Weekly Torah Reading
There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah
Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...
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Steve's Blog:It's Personal
How is it possible – Here I am
By Steve Ornstein. I have thought numerous times about what to say about the New Year. Truth be told it has been...
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The Peace Process – Redesigned
Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Shutterstock and Wikimedia Commons) Ignoring cultural difference and overestimating politics has left us without a resolution....
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One day of doubt – One Day of Forgiveness
On Yom Kippur God reminds us that most atrocities are committed in the name of ‘justice’ By Yair Lapid. Yair Lapid...
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Steve
Innocence of Muslims Film was Made by Terrorists
The information provided comes from Walid Shoebat. When it comes to the film Innocence of Muslims, our government and the media uses...
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Steve
Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre and Who by Fire
Enjoy these two videos. May your New Year be filled with Health, Peace and Love. httpv://youtu.be/T2RrErhVxks http://rebshlomocarlebach.blogspot.com/ Reb Shlomo Carlebach -Yom Kippur...
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UN looks to Israeli disabilities group for advice
Beit Issie Shapiro opened Israel’s first hydrotherapy program and hydrotherapists’ training program. A Ra’anana organization that blazes new trails for people...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Undoing the knots we tie ourselves into
Kol nidrei. Was there ever a stranger prayer to capture the imagination of serious minds. It isn’t poetry but prose. It isn’t...
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A View from the West Bank – Peace Process
by Hisham Jarallah. Abbas’s media, spokesmen and mosque imams have radicalized Palestinians to the point where many of them are no longer...
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