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  • Israeli army refuses to let soldier read poems on radio

    A brigade in the Israeli Defence Forces has banned a soldier from reading out his own verses on the radio over fears that it might cast aspersions on the army's "manliness", a media report said. The Independent daily said that throughout history, soldiers on the battlefield "have been inspired to write some of the world's most memorable poetry". The unnamed soldier from the Nahal Infantry ...

  • Barbra Streisand criticizes womens discriminatory treatment in Israel

    Barbra Streisand has spoken about the Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. The 71-year-old actress took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women while speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday. The star, who herself was born in a Jewish family, said that it was distressing that women in Israel were forced to sit at the back of the bus, CBS News ...

  • A battle won Ben-Dahan gets to stay in the Artillery Corps

    Since being elected to the Knesset and appointed deputy minister for religious services, Bayit Yehudi MK Eli Ben-Dahan has had to fight battles on numerous fronts - be it the struggle within his party over which candidate to back for chief rabbi, or the internecine skirmishes that have erupted within the coalition over pieces of contentious legislation.But while clear-cut successes in the ...

  • MK Cohen State failed to absorb Ethiopian olim

    The state has failed in the absorption of Ethiopian olim, Knesset State Control Committee chairman Amnon Cohen (Shas) said at a committee meeting on the subject that took place on Tuesday."We could have integrated them better and faster," he ...

  • Soldiers’ ombudsman blasts young commanders for verbal violence

    The Defense Ministry's soldiers' ombudsman released his annual report on Tuesday and criticized the conduct of some young commanders.He cited verbal violence and an excessively confrontational approach as problems that require the army's ...

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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood [DVD]

By the seventh installment of the illimitable Friday the 13th franchise, it seemed that any hope for originality or innovation was long gone, if it had ever existed to begin with. As a new movie in the series had been released virtually every year since 1980, there just didn't seem to be that much more to add to the tried-and-true stalk-and-slash formula. They had already used the gimmick ... ...

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  • Arens Israel does not need US aid

    The more than $3 billion in annual foreign aid that Israel receives from the United States is not essential for the country's survival, former foreign minister Moshe Arens said on Tuesday at a meeting launching a Knesset caucus on US-Israel relations.Arens and former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer spoke at the Knesset Caucus on US-Israel Relations inaugural event. The caucus, ...

  • On the road to recovering Spain’s Jewish roots

    barrios (neighborhoods), which had all but disappeared and been reduced to redeployed buildings and ancient street signs, have begun to see serious evidence of Jewish presence thanks to a project called the Red de Juderas, or the Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters. Old synagogues are being reclaimed and filled with displays of Jewish artifacts and explanations of Jewish customs, and there ...

  • ‘I would convert and make aliya if it weren’t for the camels’

    Ben-Gurion U center to study conversions "I've always wanted to do Israel," he says, although his wife Michelle "was nervous because she thought she'd be shot or killed by rockets as soon as she got here.""So far no," he notes.Barry, whose widely syndicated Miami Herald column ran from 1983 to 2005, is the author of numerous best-selling humor books ...

  • Saudi Arabia is Hottest New Twitterspace

    The kingdom now shows the highest rate of tweeting in relation to number of users worldwide, with some 1.5 million tweets per day. More than three million users are registered to the Twitter social networking Internet site – 12 percent of Saudi Arabia's population. Users span the country, and are based not only in Riyadh or Jeddah but also in far-flung areas of the kingdom. ...

  • Time to Leave Conflict Behind Panellists Say as International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Considers Viability of Two-State Solution

    BEIJING, 18 June ‑ The United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace this afternoon heard appeals to leave perpetual conflict behind, as experts grappled with ways to revitalize the two-State solution and re-engage the international community in that effort, amid regional turmoil and, by some accounts, societal and political indifference within ...

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