simmons | August 4, 2017
Saeb Erekat, the legendary Palestinian leader and chief negotiator with Israel for the last two decades, is renowned for his persistence against all odds and for a steel-trap legal mind.
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richards | August 4, 2017
(Reuters) - Thanks to the First Amendments Establishment Clause, U.S. courts have to be extremely wary of taking sides in doctrinal disputes between religious groups. On the other hand, as retired U.S
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simmons | August 3, 2017
Jewish liturgy is the expression of the hopes, fears, joys and sorrows of the Jewish people, and the Aleinu, the best-known concluding prayer, is a very good example. Composed when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem, and originally recited only on the High Holy Days, it became part of the daily liturgy after the blood libel massacre of the Jews of Blois, France, in 1171.
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richards | August 2, 2017
Atara Foods employee Enrique Torres, a 25-year-old Pikesville, Md., resident, slices freshly slaughtered kosher meat at the downtown Baltimore facility on July 26. | Shana Medel By Shana Medel Yaakov Levi is fixated on working his way to the top of the food chain in Charm City, otherwise known as Baltimore. The Israeli native, who was introduced to the glatt-kosher meat industry by his father, quickly became an integral part of the family business at 8 years old
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richards | August 2, 2017
August 2, 2017 by Felicity Boardman, The Conversation Credit: gopixa/Shutterstock The ability to cheaply and quickly sequence entire genomes is changing the way diseases are identified and treated. But it is also likely to change the way we make some of the most important and personal decisions of our lives: how, and with whom, we have children.
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admin | August 2, 2017
Indictment says victim, 24, hit accused in head with bottle, then accused, 21, pulled knife and killed him during Haifa party A 21-year-old man has been indicted for stabbing another man to death during a party in the Elyakim forest in northern Israel in June. Manslaughter charges were filed against Tiran Zazan of the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata, who allegedly stabbed the victim, Moshe Ashkenazi, 24, of Migdal Haemek in a quarrel over money that Mizrahi owed Zazan
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admin | August 2, 2017
A rare interview from the archives of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority sheds light on the significance of the Ninth of Av, on which Jews commemorate the destruction of both Holy Temples and a host of other tragedies in Jewish history, for our times. The interview, with Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi, was part of the Tzerufim program which was broadcasted in 1985 on Channel 1 every week after Shabbat. Rabbi Ashkenazi was among the foremost spiritual leaders of French Jewry in the 20th Century
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admin | August 2, 2017
The ability to cheaply and quickly sequence entire genomes is changing the way diseases are identified and treated.
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simmons | July 31, 2017
According to Daniel B. Schwartz in his study of The First Modern Jew the historian is referring to Baruch Spinoza as that trailblazer he discusses the descendants of German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, who was influenced by the heretic of Amsterdam. Of Mendelssohns six children, Schwartz writes, four converted [to Christianity], all following their fathers death in 1786
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admin | July 30, 2017
Phil Mazo, a comedian based in Jersey City, NJ, was reading through the to-do list on his phone when he decided it might be time to check off one item that had been on the list for some time: Buy a take-home genome testing kit from the company 23andMe. After finding a deal on a kit on Ebay a man had bought tests for his whole family, but was left with an extra kit after his brother got divorced Mazo hit purchase. Mazos parents emigrated from Soviet Russia
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