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London 2012: 5 Under the Radar Swimmers Who Will Shine in the Olympics

| July 26, 2012

He doesn't look the part of an Olympic gold medalist 50-meter freestyle champion, with tattoos covering both arms from shoulder to finger tips, wiry hair, in need of glasses to see the scoreboard, pecs that are solid, but certainly not Men's Health-cover status. At 31, Anthony Ervin, who tied for Gold with the famed USA sprinter, Gary Hall Jr. at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, went off the grid for nine years, playing in a band, serving as swim instructor, couch surfing, reading and trying to define himself outside of the media spot-light he was thrust into at just 19

Celebrations mark end of Talmud cycle

| July 25, 2012

Los Angeles July 25, 2012 by Zev Hurwitz Serious study of the Talmud requires a high level of devotion and consistency. Finishing all 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse in ones lifetime is an admirable feat. Completing the whole series in a little more than seven years is almost unfathomable.

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsInternational audition: Romney faces high stakes

| July 25, 2012

By KASIE HUNT Associated Press LONDON (AP) - Mitt Romney - a one-term governor untested on the world's political stage - faces high stakes in the coming week during visits to England, Israel and Poland. It's a trip that amounts to an international audition.

Asian Americans show wide diversity of faith: Study

| July 25, 2012

The Pew center report on Asian American religions finds Hindu Americans are majority of Indian Americans; they vote predominantly Democratic; majority celebrate Christmas; only 19 per cent say they attend worship services at least once a week; are way ahead of Jewish Americans in both education and family income. Aziz Haniffa reports. Close on the heels of its seminal report on the Rise of Asian Americans last month, the highly-respected Pew Research Center last week brought out yet another comprehensive report -- this time a survey of the religions of Asian Americans -- titled Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, which found that Hindu Americans constitute 51 per cent of the Indian American population, but only 19 per cent said they attend worship services at least once a week

“Slave genes” myth must die

| July 25, 2012

In 1988, Jimmy The Greek Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery, saying the black is a better athlete to begin with because hes been bred to be that way [They] jump higher and run faster. The reaction to such obviously racist remarks was fast and furious: Amid the uproar, CBS Sports fired him. So when Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson predicted this month that African-American and West Indian track athletes would dominate the London Olympics because of the genes of their slave ancestors, I paid little attention, thinking there was no way this could become a viable conversation yet again.

International Capsules: Tarmoh moves on from 100 debacle at U.S. trials

| July 24, 2012

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) The scrapes on the right arm of Jeneba Tarmoh are still raw from a recent fall in a race. The sprinter's emotions over the 100-meter debacle at the U.S.

The Huqoq Synagogue Mosaics

| July 22, 2012

Since my last column, you may have seen that Huqoq, the ancient Galilean village I have been discussing recently, has been in the international news.

Learn to shoot in Israel: American tourists take aim in Jewish settlement – Video

| July 21, 2012

21-07-2012 10:43 Israel's holy sights - such as the Wailing Wall, the tomb of Christ and the Al Aqsa Mosque - have been a major draw for tourists for years. Now though, a new attraction has come on the scene - visitors can pay to try their hand at an Israeli gun range

Romney Aides Split on Olympics Trip Overruled by Romney

| July 21, 2012

By Lisa Lerer - 2012-07-21T04:00:04Z Mitt Romneys trip to Europe and Israel next week gives the Republican presidential candidate the opportunity to establish foreign policy credentials and get a temporary respite from nagging questions about his finances. His first stop will be England, where Romney will meet with foreign leaders, attend the London Olympic games, and hold fundraisers with American bankers, some of whom are involved in the Libor rate-fixing scandal. Campaign advisers were divided on whether Romney should go to London, according to one involved in the discussion

Suicide Bomber who killed Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria – Video

| July 19, 2012

19-07-2012 05:08 Bulgarian media footage of the alleged suicide bomber, who yesterday afternoon attacked a bus full of Israeli tourists in the parking lot at the airport in Burgas. Witnesses described how panicked passengers jumped from bus windows and bodies lay strewn on the ground with their clothes torn off as ambulance sirens wailed and black smoke rose over Sarafovo airport in Burgas


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