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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...justifiable military target, including young children. Collective punishment is a far too diplomatic term for such a ruthless strategy. Ali Abunimah, a prolific Arab-American author and blogger, perhaps put it best when he asked, is this a taste of the “bigger shoah” (Hebrew for Holocaust) that Israel’s deputy defense minister threatened...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Far from Self-Defense | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...couple of years later, the humorously juvenile Comedy Central series South Park weighed in with an episode in which Kyle Broflovski, a Jewish kid exasperated by the holiday season, singing "A Jew on Christmas." "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, I'd be merry, but I'm Hebrew, on Christmas... Hanukkah is nice but why is it that Santa passes over my house every year? And ... what the f--- is up with lighting all these candles tell me please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture Hanukkah | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...midst of the crisis, Rabbi Gavriel had made a final call to the Israeli Embassy and said in Hebrew, “The situation is not good...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Remembers Rabbi | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...figure in humanity's history emerged last week when archaeologists announced the discovery of what could be one of the world's oldest known spiritual figures. After years of meticulous excavation just miles from Israel's Mediterranean coast, scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unearthed a 12,000-year-old grave that held the remains of a diminutive "shaman" woman. Buried alongside the woman's small, huddled corpse were selected pieces of animal bone, a cowtail, an eagle wing, the foot of another human, and, most curiously, some fifty tortoise shells deliberately arranged around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...champion of the city's Arabs baffles his Beitar football fans. The team's supporters are known for shouting "Death to Arabs" during matches. His fans say that while the Russian might know his football, he is clueless about Jerusalem's complexities (nor does he speak much Hebrew). Plus, they say, his advisers are selling him all sorts of crazy schemes so they can grab his shekels. Gaydamak, they say, may be a billionaire in Russia, but in Israel he is a freier, or sucker. (See pictures of Euro 2008 soccer games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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