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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Israel, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Government, Hamas
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Pioneer rabbi to retire
Rabbi Sheldon J. Harr, who with a handful of families founded Temple Kol Ami in Plantation 37 years ago, is retiring. A relaxed Harr celebrated with members of the Reform synagogue at a Friday night service attended by his former assistant rabbis, who...Tags: Long Island, Fort Lauderdale, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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Israel pursues "war-within-war" in Syria air strikes
Reuters* Israeli attacks have strategic bearing for Iran conflict * Hezbollah rockets key Israeli concern * For Israel, advanced arms for Hezbollah crossed red line By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, May 5 (Reuters) - Iran was squarely in Israel's sights when it...Tags: Israel, Weaponry, Government, Bashar Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Stones, What Stones? Elton Owns Beverly Hills Crowd
ReutersMay 05 (TheWrap.com) - At the same time that the Rolling Stones had the Lakers Pau Gasol and 18,000 others enjoying Staples Center in May for a reason other than the NBA playoffs on Friday night, Sir Elton John was making his own statement in Century...Tags: Matt Lanter, Jay Leno, Television Industry, Authors, NBA Playoffs
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Michigan bill allows perfect attendance if student misses class for religious observance
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan legislative committee has approved a bill ensuring students could still qualify for perfect attendance awards if they miss school to observe a religious holiday. Legislation unanimously approved Wednesday by the...Tags: Holidays, Religious Festivals, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Rosh Hashanah
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Talking heads add power to dark 'No Place on Earth' ★★ 1/2
The story told by Janet Tobias' documentary "No Place on Earth" is enough to transcend the film's limitations. With human drama like this, it sounds almost absurd to get hung up on artistic choices and filmmaking technique. Almost. In 1993, a New Yorker...
Tags: No Place on Earth (movie), Germany, Landforms, Judaism, Religion and Belief
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Another Watergate gap
The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum opened a new exhibit in Yorba Linda and online Feb. 15, "Patriot, President, Peacemaker." It covers Richard Nixon's entire life, like the permanent installation there, and claims to present "a fuller picture" than...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, FBI, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard Nixon
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The Never-Ending School Year
Because I don’t have a seat on our town’s Board of Education and I’ve never spent hours trying to decipher school budgets I feel kind of funny asking this, but … Why is our school calendar such a mess? This summer will be the...Tags: Holidays, Martin Luther King Jr., Judaism, Religious Festivals, Travel
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Israel should keep the Golan Heights until Syria makes peace
Regarding Ramzi and Noura Hemady's recent commentary on Syria's Golan Heights, the authors ignore three critical facts when it comes to the ultimate possession of that disputed territory ("Let people of the Golan decide their fate," Feb. 8). First,...
Tags: Israel, Judaism, Religion and Belief, France, United Kingdom
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Can you say 'I'm sorry'?
Maybe love means never having to say you're sorry, but what about when love isn't involved? Say, when you've described the president using a derogatory slur for someone with a mental disability, as Ann Coulter did in October. Or when you're the...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Elections, The Boston Globe
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Israeli army fires warning shots into Syria
World NowJERUSALEM -- Israel fired warning shots into Syria on Sunday after an apparently errant mortar shell struck an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights, the latest example of regional spillover from Syria’s civil unrest. The Syrian mortar caused... -
1 of 6 ordained cantors celebrates new year, new career in Chicago area
Self-conscious and embarrassed at times about her Jewish identity as a child in the Soviet republic of Ukraine, Vicky Glikin didn't embrace the beauty of Judaism until she became a teenager. Ukraine had discovered religion. She had discovered her...
Tags: Israel, Judaism, Sacred Music (genre), Yamim Noraim, Religion and Belief
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