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...getting' have been flying. Free SUVs? Plasma televisions? Nothing seems out of the question. Nightly news broadcasts that Iranians watch on their illegal satellite dishes have shown Hizballah doling out thick stacks of cash, courtesy of Iran. "Did you see the cash? They're giving each family ten thousand dollars!" one of my relatives phoned to tell...
...After a period of relative eclipse, mikvahs are getting their total makeover. For almost two thousand years, in keeping with a passage from the Bible's book of Leviticus, traditional Judaism required its womenfolk to submerge themselves in "living" water - from an ocean, spring or rainfall - fulfilling purity rules and marking the rhythm of marital life. The baths were a staple of traditional Jewish life before World War II. After the Holocaust, however, a majority of Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere liberalized their practice, abandoning Orthodoxy's many rabbinic obligations as pass?. The mikvah was a case in point...
...crisis in Lebanon by simply saying Israel has a right to defend itself? He gave a green light to the excessive use of force. The price will be continued fighting for generations. This Administration is a terrible disaster for those of us who believed in the America of "a thousand points of light." Jacques Jobin L'Ange-Gardien, Canada...
...January midnight, you may have a moment of sober clarity and self-awareness. You will ask yourself important questions, inquiries like, “Why am I running naked in a crowd of a thousand people?” “How do I tell my doctor that I’ve gotten frostbite—there?” and “Why are there so many elderly spectators with cameras...
...true that the latest Baghdad security plan - which has seen several thousand American and Iraqi troops isolating and searching the city's most dangerous neighborhoods - has reduced the violence here for the moment. But over and over again Iraq's insurgents have shown the willingness to bide their time during major US operations only to resurface when the American troop presence inevitably declines. So the real (and more difficult) question is not what the operation accomplishes in the short-term, but whether there is any genuine hope of stemming insurgent violence and sectarian strife in the long-term...