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TIME Lists Yair Lapid as One of Top 100 Influential Leaders
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
News → IsraelYair Lapid is handsome, charismatic and ego-centric, all that takes to become a political leader and for TIME Magazine to rate him as one of the world’s top 100 influential people in the world.
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Parents Fight Textbook Trivializing Murder of Israeli Civilians
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
News → AntisemitismCardoza-Moore questions why anyone would debate whether it's right to attack innocent people for political reasons.
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Explosions Near Waco, Tx, Many Fatalities,100s Hurt (video)
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
NewsDozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured following massive explosions at a fertilizer factory north of Waco,Texas.
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UPDATE: Authorities Identify Suspect in Boston Marathon Bombings
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → News BriefsSuspect identified through surveillance cameras in Boston Marathon Bombings. Arrest Imminent.
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Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → IsraelThe Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya launched the Daniel Pearl International Journalism Institute on Wednesday, named for The Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan 11 years ago. His murderers posted a video of Pearl, before they beheaded him, in which he stated, “I am Jewish.” Pearl’s father, Prof. Judea [...]

Peres: Torah Does Not Ban Women Wearing Tallis at Western Wall
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → IsraelPresident Peres showed off his lack of knowledge of Jewish law and told the NY UJA, “The Torah does not ban women from wearing a tallis.”
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Rabbi Broyde Admits To Using Fake Internet Persona, Takes Leave From RCA
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → NYRabbi Michael Broyde, a leading Modern Orthodox rabbi and dayan, admitted to using a fake persona to join a rival rabbinic organization and herald his own work in scholarly journals.
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Shock, Sympathy And Caution In Wake Of Marathon Bombing
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → TerrorismIsraeli Independence Day celebrations in Boston were muted and security was increased in the wake of the bombing attack that left three dead and dozens injured at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.
New Jersey Bible Quiz Co-Champion
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → IsraelFifteen-year-old Yishai Eisenberg of Passaic, N.J., and a Beit Shemesh high school student were the first-ever co-champions in the International Bible Quiz held in Israel on Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day. Eisenberg and Elior Babian of Beit Shemesh, located west of, stunned the judges by their perfect knowledge of the Bible. When it became clear that [...]
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Gaza Arabs Celebrate Boston Marathon Attack with Dance, Candies
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → Eye on Palestine"Boston explosions: 'Please don't be Arabs or Muslims.'"
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UPDATE: Ricin-Laced Letter Received by Miss. Sen. Wicker
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
NewsA Homeland Security briefing for senators today revealed that a letter laced with the deadly poison Ricin had been received by Republican Senator Roger Wicker.
1Sixteen Israelis Ran in Bombed-Boston Marathon
Posted on: April 16th, 2013
News → IsraelSixteen Israelis ran in Monday’s terror-ridden Boston marathon, but none of them were wounded in the twin bombings. Tzviki Bronstein, 57, flew to Boston to run in the marathon and was able to finish the race before the explosions. He was walking back to his hotel room when he heard the explosions, he told the [...]
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Museum Seeks Jews’ Memories of Baseball
Posted on: April 16th, 2013
News → JewishDo you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.
9Cleveland Jewish Runner Crossed Finish Line One Hour before Blast
Posted on: April 16th, 2013
News → JewishA Cleveland Jewish man’s ability to finish the Boston Marathon in less than four hours helped save him from injuries, or worse, in the terrorist attack Monday “I was in the hotel when the explosions went off, Kevin Goodman, 50, told the Cleveland Jewish News. “The explosions happened about an hour after I finished. I [...]

Saudi Questioned in Boston Terrorist Attack
Posted on: April 16th, 2013
News → IslamistsIt took the White House an hour or more until it could bring itself to say that the attacks in Boston were “terror.” A Saudi student is under questioning. But it is just an “isolated” incident.
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On the Scene, Boston Rabbi Offering ‘Some Sense of Serenity’
Posted on: April 16th, 2013
News → Jewish“You can imagine the pandemonium. Everyone was running, and glass was flying around."
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UPDATE #5 Fatal Explosions Rock End of Boston Marathon (video)
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
NewsA nurse staffing the medical tent told a New York radio station that after the explosions the tent 'began to look like a makeshift morgue.'
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Satmar Sets up ‘Draft Refugee’ Panel to Send Yeshiva Youth to US
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → HaredimThis really is Independence Day! Satmar sets up an emergency panel to hustle IDF Draft Refugees’ out of Israel lest they be contaminated by serving the country. Let them be America’s problem.
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F-35, Due for Israel in 2016, in First Vertical Landing (Video)
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → Israel → IDFIsraeli Air Force pilots won’t be flying the controversial and costly F35 Stealth Lightning fighter plane before 2016, but everyone now has a glimpse of how the advanced jet makes a vertical landing.
4Pearl’s Father: Execution Caused ‘Revolution’ against Barbarism
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → AntisemitismProf. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel “caused a revolution in our society’s struggle against barbarism.” He added, “The notion of absolute good and bad was almost erased, but was reborn with the murder of Daniel in Pakistan.” [...]
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