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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 ...

  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict No Less Urgent Secretary-General Stresses amid Fears that Syria Crisis Could Engulf Already Tense Region

    BEIJING, 18 June ‑ With regional tensions rising over relentless fighting in Syria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today ...

  • Lebanese Sunnis ready to fight after Hizbollah declared war against us

    BEIRUT // Fighters from the Sunni Bab Al Tabbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli are clear about who is to blame for the gun battles where their area meets the adjoining Alawite district. "Hizbollah and Bashar Al Assad want this," said Sheikh Khodr Al Zoobi, a Salafist cleric, sometime school bus driver and militia leader. "There is a war against Sunnis in Lebanon." With shots ...

  • Netanyahu calls for an end to all Iranian enrichment

    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Iran Tuesday to stop the enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran has expressed readiness to stop uranium enrichment to 20 percent in exchange for easing international sanctions.Lavrov's comments to the Kuwait News Agency came a day after Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani ...

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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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  • Spain reigns supreme once again with Euro triumph

    Spain's stranglehold over European soccer doesn't look like it will be ending any time soon after the Under-21 national team emulated the senior side by winning a second straight European Championship title on Tuesday night, outclassing Italy 4-2 at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.The Spaniards entered the tournament in Israel as a firm favorite and lived up to their billing throughout the ...

  • Ending the Chief Rabbinate electoral machinations

    The sleazy political machinations surrounding the impending elections for the Chief Rabbinate are shameful.There is today a unique opportunity to end the excessive influence exerted over the nation by ultra- Orthodox groups. This extends beyond the emotional issues of haredim serving in the army and becoming gainfully employed rather than subsisting on state welfare. It relates to the ...

  • In my own write Joking aside

    I can recall two episodes during which I was seized with uncontrollable laughter, oddly both connected with music.The first happened many years ago, when I attended a chamber concert with my father at a private home. It was all pretty informal, but when the music began, people sat down and listened attentively.All went well at first, until a group of four musicians stepped up. Three of them ...

  • Today’s ‘Altneuland’ Jerusalem’s ‘beauty and wisdom’ season

    It is symposium season in Jerusalem these days - and hero season in Israel. Every June I am overwhelmed by conferences, often balancing two per week, as academics and activists visit Israel before the summer - and summer heat - really begin.As my daily schedule fills up, I enjoy reading about the annual conferring by Israel's universities of honorary doctorates to intellectual and ...

  • Terra Incongnita Rewarding IDF service is not discrimination

    The only discrimination of a bill allowing for preferential treatment for army, national service results between Jews who don't serve, those who ...

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