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...Keren’ means both of those things.”I was inwardly pleased to encounter another Jew in a church. He pulled out his Hebrew language guidebook, which contained the relevant passage from the Torah. He began to read it but I cut him off.“I can read Hebrew,” I said. He looked shocked. “I’m Jewish,” I offered in explanation. Gilad was a former officer in the Israeli Defense Force. He had studied at Hebrew University and had lived in the Mount Scopus...
...Many critics who are outraged by Warren's role in the Inauguration have unfairly painted him as a leader in last fall's campaign for Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. It's not as if Warren cut commercials for Prop. 8 or traveled the state urging its passage. But neither was he the silent bystander that some of his defenders have claimed. Less than a month before the election, Warren e-mailed a statement to his 30,000 members declaring, "There is no doubt where we should stand on this issue," and urged...
...barge. It had no motor or sail. According to Zaw Win, another Rohingya detainee interviewed by the Arakan Project, the Thais gave the refugees four bags of rice and two drums of water, a woefully insufficient supply for over 400 people with nowhere to go. Then they allegedly cut the rope between the barge and the navy ship and left...
Zoos are hardly the only organizations to be hit hard by U.S. financial straits - administrators from soup kitchens to schools are fighting for pieces of a shrinking fiscal pie. But zoos and aquariums have less flexibility as they cope with budget cuts. Live animals need to be fed and taken care of, no matter the revenue cuts. "You can't cut back on the food an elephant eats," says Jane Ballentine, the director of marketing at the Maryland Zoo, which has been forced to close for four additional weeks this winter. "If something needs to be fed, it's going...
...children were born here. Our family home is here," says Linda McCutcheon, a 63-year old pensioner who has lived in the village for 42 years. "All of my family history will be buried under concrete." As part of the tentative plans for expansion, a four-lane highway will cut across the village's Cherry Lane cemetery. "I've already pre-paid to rest there with my father and mother," says Sylvia Steadman, 66. "It's extremely upsetting." (See pictures from the village of Sipson...