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...northern port of Haifa killed at least 19 people and injured up to 50. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hours later, Israeli helicopter gunships struck two locations in the Gaza Strip. The violence came just before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Conflict of Interest ALGERIA The governmental crisis deepened as the main political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), withdrew five ministers from the coalition cabinet. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fired FLN leader Ali Benflis as PM in May, and sacked five other FLN ministers last month. The U.N. Moves...
...both the visualization of not-too-scary monsters and for smart stories that will surprise even older readers. At one point, while swearing an oath to protect the secret of the vampire family's existence, Michael declines to make the sign of the cross because he's Jewish. Perhaps most importantly, the books explore themes of personal responsibility, tolerance for others and self-reliance in clear but not overbearing ways we could only wish most adult literature would emulate...
That they wear those sadly nicked shirts for every day of the shiva, the week-long Jewish custom of sitting mourning, only enhances my impression this all is an endless sentence of undeserved punishment, that time is on a hideously repetitive loop...
...network of volunteer programs for his students at nursing homes, schools, parks and local relief agencies. His aim is to teach high school students to adopt their own sense of public service, especially as they begin to negotiate their religious identities. “I was aware that the Jewish community and Jewish day schools were often insular,” he says. He recalls that, at his own Hebrew high school, he didn’t have the chance to work as a volunteer until senior year. What he needed, of course, was a four-year lesson in public...
...book, Dershowitz points to Finkelstein as a propagator of the notion that “Jews have exploited the Holocaust to gain sympathy for a Jewish state at the expense of the Palestinians, who bear no responsibility for Hitler’s genocide against the Jews...