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The Right Word in the Right Language
This may just be politics as usual in Israel, but it is interesting to see just how the leading opposition party there is using today’s mass protest against “gender segregation” (as one report put it) by the ultra-Orthodox extremists of Beit...
Israeli Government Offering Talks with Economic Protesters
The Israeli government is offering to open talks with economic protesters who have captured the attention of the nation.
Large Risk Schizophrenia Marker Revealed
A group of scientists has identified a genetic variant that substantially increases the risk for developing schizophrenia in Ashkenazi Jewish and other populations. The study, published by Cell Press on August 5 in the American Journal of Human Genetics,...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Morocco for a Meeting of Foreign Ministers
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Morocco for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East and the world’s leading industrialized nations. They will discuss democracy in the region and ways to resolve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Secretary...
Where Was Benjamin?
With everyone playing guessing games (at least as the BBC wishes to report the story) over the nature of Benjamin Netanyahu’s disappearance this past Monday, it occurred to me that there was at least one way to put a decidedly American spin on...
The Chutzpah of Linguistic Denial
At last May’s Independence Day celebration in Israel, we saw, for the first time, promising signs that, where the question of relations between Israelis and Palestinians are concerned, the voices of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the...
