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...Andrew Lee Butters' article on the fate of the Palestinians driven out of their homeland in 1948 is a story that needs to be told. I have just read Ilan Pappé's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, and I believe it is time for Israel to face up to this atrocity and cease labeling as "anti-Semitic" anyone who dares to draw attention to it. Jim Kearns, LONDON...
...tense, tale of eight English schoolboys as they prepare for their college entrance exams. As “Oxbridge candidates,” they must face the reality of adulthood, while their flavorful, poetical English professor Mr. Hector fights to protect the boys’ playful youth.Ostensibly, Hector (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) parallels the Mr. Keating of “The Dead Poet’s Society.” But while Keating only provides literature, Hector offers illicit sexual encounters. His inability to distance himself emotionally enables “The History Boys?...
After two prayers, translated into both Arabic and Hebrew, Ilan J. Caplan ’10 led the crowd in a Hebrew song...
...memory.'' Eisenberg speaks fluent German, Japanese, Yiddish and European-inflected English. Eisenberg has also made a point of hiring executives with a record of achievement, people who are already powerful. Among his current employees is Moshe Arens, the former Defense and Foreign Minister. In the past he has employed Ilan Tehila, the former military adviser to Defense Ministers Ezer Weizman and Ariel Sharon, as well as a retired armed forces chief of staff and a onetime director-general of the Foreign Ministry. ''He has a weak spot for military men,'' says another ex-employee. There may be more...
...human exercisers mirror that of the mice, but the people who exercised more did better on a slew of memory tests. Other evidence backs this up. In a study of "previously sedentary" older subjects by psychologist Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois and others at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, investigators found that those who engaged in aerobic exercise did better cognitively than those who stretched and toned but never got their heart rates pumping. What's more, subsequent imaging showed that aerobic exercise "increased brain volume in regions associated with age-related decline in both structure and cognition...