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  • Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem

    18 June 2013 150 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment today of Major General Michel Finn, of Ireland, as head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the Jerusalem-based UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the first such operation the world body set up almost 60 years ago. "Major General Finn succeeds Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland, who will ...

  • KKK man makes death ray against Israels enemies

    A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...

  • Report Irans Rohani tied to AMIA 1994 bombing

    'Washington Free Beacon' cites indictment by the Argentine government prosecutor accusing the Iranian government of directing the bombing; says Iranian president-elect connected to decision to launch ...

  • UNESCO to include Yad Vashem database in world register

    UNESCO, the United Nations' organ which aims to promote international cooperation in the field of science and culture, announced that it has included Yad Vashem's database of the names and stories of those who have perished in the Holocaust as part of its Memory of the World Register.This marks the first time that UNESCO has included an Israeli archival collection in its ...

  • Chabad Rabbi Moshe Greenberg Gulag Survivor Passes On

    Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Bnei Brak and noted for continuing Jewish education activities despite a ban under Communist rule, passed away on Tuesday at age 84. Rabbi Greenberg passed on the eve of Yud-Beis Tamuz, the anniversary on the Jewish calendar celebrating the release of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson -- his mentor -- from prison ...

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You Can Count On Me [DVD]

You Can Count On Me [DVD]

Playwright and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan's directorial debut, You Can Count On Me, is a bittersweet drama about the affectionate, but strained relationship between two siblings whose parents died in a car accident when they were children. No information is given on how they grew up, but 18 years later, the older sister, Sammy (Laura Linney), is a single mother who still lives in he ... ...

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  • BDS Summer Camps to Indoctrinate College Students

    Three groups with established records of stoking anti-Israel activity are organizing "summer camps" and "summer institutes" in New York and Chicago, where they will attempt to indoctrinate young children with biased narratives of Israeli-Arab history and teach college students to organize campaigns to boycott the state of Israel. The camps raise concerns about the ...

  • All Israelis will profit from gas exports

    In the wake of yesterday's decision on the fate of Israel's gas reserves, Minister of Finance Yair Lapid has said he is proud of the proposal to be put to the cabinet on Sunday that 40% of natural gas will be exported. He said, "This is a day of celebration for the State of Israel. A miracle has happened to us. This will help education, welfare and to lower the cost of ...

  • Israeli occupation forces arrest five Palestinians from West Bank provinces today

    Bethlehem: June 20 -- (BNA)-- Israeli occupation forces arrested this morning five Palestinian citizens from Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus and Hebron provinces. In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested in the wee hours of dawn today a Palestinian youngster after raiding and inspecting his home in Khadir Town. Also, another Palestinian youngster from Bait-Jala Town sustained bone fractures as a ...

  • 2013 Lions Tour Israel Folau named to make Wallabies debut against tourists

    Brisbane 4000 Former rugby league international Israel Folau is one of three debutants named in Australia's starting XV to face the British and Irish Lions at Lang Park on Saturday night.Folau, playing his first season of professional rugby union following an unsuccessful stint in the AFL, has been named to make his Wallabies debut on the wing in the first Test.He will be joined by ...

  • Jewish educator who survived Soviet Gulag dies

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was ...

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