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  • Lapid working to pass civil gay marriage in Israel

    Finance Minister Yair Lapid is working to build a "coalition within the coalition" to create a civil alternative to religious marriage in Israel, including gay marriage.In a question and answer session on his Facebook page Thursday night, Lapid told a questioner that he was "definitely" planning on advancing the civil marriage ...

  • Israel Women and the Wailing Wall

    There was this Israeli man who, from time to time, put a slip of paper in the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, asking God for favors -- as Jews have been doing for centuries. They believe that the gates of heaven are located directly above the Wall, making it easy for their missives to arrive quickly. The man always wondered what all the other petitioners were requesting from the ...

  • PA continues crackdown on Palestinian journalists in W.Bank

    In past week Palestinian Authority security forces interrogated, detained two journalists, despite promises to honor freedom of media; interrogators forced reporter to provide them with email and Facebook ...

  • Enraged by kidnapping Egypt police keep Gaza border closed

    Policeman says crossing will remain closed until the seven remaining kidnapped hostages who were taken by Islamic militants are freed and the Interior Minister comes to listen to security ...

  • Netanyahu Putin to Discuss Syria Weapons Sale

    JERUSALEM, Israel -- Following reports of the delivery of missiles and advanced anti-missile batteries to Syria, Israel announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to meet with Russian Premier Vladimir Putin soon to discuss the issue. The Prime Minister's Office would not confirm when the visit would take place or any details about it, but one official who spoke on condition of ...

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Boiler Room [DVD]

Boiler Room [DVD]

Ben Younger's "Boiler Room" is about a small-time crook who tries to go legit, but ends up unwittingly becoming a big-time crook. It's a capitalistic cautionary tale about the dangers of the new American Dream in the era of "Who Wants to Be A Millionare" and Internet stocks going through the roof overnight: trying to get too rich too quick. ...

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  • Syria Islamist fear drives Israel to back Assad survival

    Israel would prefer President Assad to survive his country's bloody two-year insurgency if the alternative were a takeover by rebels infiltrated by Islamic extremists, Israeli officials said yesterday. Intelligence sources said that an intact, but weakened, Assad regime would be preferable for the country and the whole troubled region. "Better the devil we know than the ...

  • Report Israel pays $127K for bedroom on PMs jet

    A public flap has erupted after the Israeli government spent more than $127,000 to build a bedroom for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and his wife Sarah on a flight to attend the funeral of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in ...

  • Israeli official Assad preferable to extremist rebels The Times of London reports

    May 18, 2013 Israel prefers the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria to continue than see a takeover of the country by rebel Islamist ...

  • Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown

    An explosive American TV appearance by an Israeli expat and his wife, and their subsequent aggressive online reaction, have gone viral and made headlines in the US news. Samy and Amy Bouzaglo let rip at critics in a spectacularly public fashion after they and their restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona was panned by Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares reality show. Ramsay had few good ...

  • Syrian rebels claim Assad chemical weapons use

    The Syrian opposition claimed on Saturday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in Damascus and in the northern Syrian city of Saraqeb, Israel Radio reported quoting Saudi owned Al-Arabiya news network. Al-Arabiya reported that the dozens of people wounded in the attacks were suffering from breathing difficulties, the radio said. The ...

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