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Israel’s election is being cast as a historic showdown - but four trends tell a different story
POLITICAL AFFAIRS: From rivalries within political blocs to polls that shape voter choices and coalition red lines, four trends reveal the challenges facing Israel’s next government.
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'My Israeli Journey': Shaul Mofaz recounts battles, politics, and family - review
A festival of Jewish learning reinvigorates Belarus
Once a city bustling with Jewish life, Vitebsk again witnessed the spirit and excitement of renewal at last month’s Limmud FSU gathering.
Climb every mountain
Any connection between the story of former prime minister Ariel Sharon and Notzar Theater company’s ‘Har’ is purely circumstantial.
Limmud FSU to kick off festival of Jewish learning
Nonprofit helps young Russian-speaking Jews all over the world find their religious roots.
Media Comment: The vacuum of critique
In 2005, Israel’s media was largely exuberant about the upcoming unilateral retreat, for Sharon was implementing one of its dreams: the end of part of the “occupation”
Was Sharon right after all?
If the Gaza pullout doesn’t kill us, it may well have saved us from a far more lethal West Bank one.
Restraint is not strength
Sharon’s disengagement plan was perhaps the most deceitful, manipulative and shameful move by any Israeli leader.
Israel and Gaza: The existential conundrum
Gaza only poses problems of Current Security to Israel, the West Bank, however, constitutes a Basic Security problem.
The long view?
The Arab Spring is better understood as a ‘Second Arab Awakening’ that has the potential to build a political culture and political institutions that promote checks and balances on government power, diversity, toleration, human rights and economic growth, writes Marwan Muasher.
Grapevine: Italian empathy
Grasso promised to raise his voice all over Italy, with the aim of gaining support for the safe return of the abducted youngsters.
Candidly speaking: Our Islamic fundamentalist adversaries are inhuman barbarians
If these barbarians have the capacity to behave so cruelly toward their own kinsmen, one can only shudder at what they would do to Jews if they had the opportunity.