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Fire from Below
With our nerves already on edge from the air raid sirens and the heartbreaking mounting death toll as Operation Protective Edge raged on last month, the thick black smoke billowing out of our parking...
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Wartime Unity at Hutzot HaYotzer
In a summer where nearly every large-scale outdoor event was canceled on instruction by Israelâ€s Home Front Command, the annual Hutzot HaYotzer International Arts and Crafts Festival in Jerusalem...
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Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
When we made aliyah 20 years ago, did we come expecting that there would be war in our future? On a certain level, I suppose we knew that we were moving to a dangerous neighborhood and that conflict...
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The Evolutionary Inevitability of the Jewish State Bill
Itâ€s already hard to remember, with election fever raging all around us, what triggered this expensive, unnecessary mess weâ€re now in. Iâ€m talking about the “Jewish State†bill, of course. It...
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Climate change, Hitler and the Syrian civil war: how bleak is our future?
As the civil war in Syria shows no sign of slowing down, prompting millions of refugees to flee from that war-torn shell of a country towards an overwhelmed Europe, a study appearing in the...
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About that Baka boom
I was in the shower when it happened: a boom louder and stronger than any Iâ€ve heard since the suicide bomb at Café Hillel on Emek Refaim Street in 2003. I shut off the water immediately and got...
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Under fire: a student in Sderot
My daughter Merav is a proud Zionist. But even Zionists get scared sometimes. And living for the past two years in the Gaza border community of Sderot, where sheâ€s studying at Sapir College, thereâ€s...
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