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A New Raft of Ocean Heroes: Imperial Beah’s Major among 2016 Peter Benchley Ocean...
What does the president of a Pacific island Nation, a New York Times reporter, a French sailing expedition and the mayor of a small San Diego border town have in common? They are among...
OECD Secretary-General Praises Ben-Gurion University’s Devotion to Turning the Negev into a “Garden” of...
OECD Secretary-General Jose Ángel Gurría warmly accepted the Ben-Gurion Leadership Award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Prof. Rivka Carmi on Monday, praising BGU's leading role in the development of the Negev.
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A New Study of Eichmann and the Origins of Evil Shows Why Radicals Like...
Colaboration: Jaime Murrow
After 50 years of controversy, and many paperback editions, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem has now been consigned to the dustbin of history. The final nail in the coffin of Arendt’s thesis is...
The profitable business of Israeli occupation
On Jan. 26, it was UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's turn to provide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with justification for his weekly lecture that “the whole world is against us” and “the Arabs want...
Bet You Didn’t Know About the Jews of Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana
The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...
Paul Rudd Challenges Stephen Hawking in Quantum Chess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44
The actor and former Bar-Mitzvah DJ challenges the famous quantum physicist for a dramatic game of quantum chess in this new Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter video, narrated by Keanu Reeves (another...
Remembering David Stoliar, the Only Survivor of 1942 Struma Disaster
Last Saturday, the New York Times ran an obituary about David Stoliar, the only survivor aboard the Struma, a ship carrying an estimated 800 Romanian, Bulgarian, and Russian Jews, all fleeing the Holocaust. The ship,...
Shift in tone: Liberals warn Israel against settlements, Palestinians against unilateral statehood bids
The Liberal government on Sunday put out its first statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which included calling Israel a “steadfast friend and ally” while also warning it against building more settlements on disputed land.
Released...
Israel’s Top General Praises Iran Deal as ‘Strategic Turning Point’ in Slap at Bibi
Remember the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West? You know — the one that Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was the biggest danger to Israel and the Jews since time immemorial?
Well, Israel’s military chief of...
“Rabin, the Last Day”. A documentary.
Rabin, The Last Day, Amos Gitai’s sprawling, scarific two-and-a-half-hour quasi-documentary on the November 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a young religious fanatic, Yigal Amir, after the signing of the Oslo Accords,...