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  • Syria asserts right to respond to Israeli violations

    They Syrian government has said that it holds the right to respond to any Israeli violation against its sovereignty. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a letter to the UN, Tuesday complained against the latest Israeli violation which took place earlier, Xinhua reported. The complaint was made in the wake of an Israeli military vehicle violating the cease-fire being observed between Israel and ...

  • FBI kills man suspected of ties to Boston bomb suspect

    Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported.NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the ...

  • German intel Assad strengthening hold in Syria

    Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has become more stable, gaining an upper hand in capabilities to successfully thwart rebels amid the conflit plaguing the country, German foreign intelligence agency assessments were reported as stating Wednesday in German ...

  • Jenin Jenin Bill approved in early vote

    A bill allowing class-action lawsuits to be filed against those who slander IDF soldiers passed a preliminary vote on Wednesday.According to the legislation submitted by MK Yoni Shetboun (Bayit Yehudi) and coalition chairman Yariv Levin (Likud Beytenu), if someone slanders IDF soldiers' operational activities, that person can be sued for slander in a class action ...

  • Los Angeles elects first Jewish mayor

    LOS ANGELES - Eric Garcetti was elected the first Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, one of a number of political contests that reflect the city's diversity, and its Jewish community.Garcetti, 42, a veteran city councilman, led city controller Wendy Greuel by six points around 3 a.m. Wednesday, with nearly 100 percent of the ballots counted. Greuel conceded about an hour earlier."Thank you ...

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Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

Ang Lees Taking Woodstock is, quite literally, all over the place. At times a vibrant and sympathetic portrait of the countercultures most visible evocation of the power of peace, love, and music, it is at other times a snarky social comedy about the misguided notions of ... ...

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  • IDF Arrests Murderers of Ben Yosef Livnat

    Arab sources are saying that the IDF has arrested the three Palestinian Authority (PA) men who murdered yeshiva boy Ben Yosef Livnat. According to the reports, the three were freed from a PA jail after just one year's imprisonment. The IDF arrested them immediately upon their ...

  • Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer and Baratz law firms merge

    Baratz & Co. law firms today announced plans to merge. The new firm will be called Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz. Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer has 85 attorneys and patent lawyers and Baratz & Co. has 35 attorneys. The combined firm will have 101 attorneys and 18 patent attorneys, making it one of Israel's largest law firms. Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer is one of Israel's top firms ...

  • Las Vegas project weighs on Property and Building results

    PTBL ) 66% to NIS 72 million for the first quarter of 2013 from NIS 211 million for the corresponding quarter of 2012. CBRE Inc. raised the fair value of the HSBC building in Manhattan by 8% $670 million. Property and Building said, "The net profit accruing to the company from the HSBC Building and Barney's Building (in Chicago) was NIS 77 million in the first quarter, compared with ...

  • Jeff Pulver raises $350000 for Zula via OurCrowd

    Zula , founded by Jeff Pulver and CEO Jacob Ner-David. OurCrowd added that the financing pushed the total raised for early stage companies above $12 million in 18 funding rounds. Zula has developed a mobile communications platform for teams, continuing Pulver and Ner-David's specialty in telecommunications. Medved told "Globes", "Pulver has a high enough business profile that ...

  • Shlomo Maoz Arabs pay higher interest rates

    "If I live in Israel and I'm Bedouin or Arab, the interest rate I pay is higher. The closer I get to the White Men and Tel Aviv, the interest rate I pay ...

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