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Divest This!: A Hampshire Hoaxy Anniversary Special
It almost escaped my notice that Feb 7 was the anniversary of the great Hampshire Divestment Hoax, that is until I discovered this stunningly self-aggrandizing announcement by the jesters who started it all: Hamshire’s Students for Justice in Palestine ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 3:51am PT (401 words)
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The Political and Financial Markets Commentator: Presidential Super Bowl Interview; Buzz Kill
Katie Couric White House Interview During Super Bowl Preview
After a decent couple of hours of a Super Bowl preview, CBS ran a live, softball interview between Katie Couric and President Obama that covered many of the areas of interest to the America...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 3:50am PT (304 words)
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TOTUS: Animal Rights vs. Human Rights
I normally don't post on stories such as the one below, but this story represents a much larger and growing trend in this country. Here is a poor old man who loves his dog and was trying to help his beloved pet in the only way we was able too. Then along ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 5:06am PT (420 words)
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Parshablog: Is 1/10 of the Israelite population as judges plausible?! Likes: 2 
Summary: Ibn Ezra does not think so, especially since there are these moral requirements. Therefore, he parts ways with the midrash Chazal. And see Ibn Caspi's reaction, and Avi Ezer's reaction.Post: In parshat Yitro (last week's parsha but I did not get ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:30am PT (1037 words)
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Raphael: L’man Achai Auction Likes: 7
Last night I took photos for L’man Achai at their annual Outreach Chinese auction. L’man Achai runs a lot of programs, the two main ones; a Yeshiva (Jewish School) and the Summer Camp. You may remember my photos from the summer over there, cl...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:50am PT (78 words)
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Doc's Talk: Jewish-Arab Center Prof: No Such Thing as Palestinian Refugees Likes: 1
Hillel Fendel A7 NewsProf. Nitza Nachmias of the Jewish-Arab Center in Haifa University says that if it wasn’t for UNRWA and its half-billion dollar annual budget, the Palestinian refugee problem would have been solved long ago.“In essence,” she tol...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 7:33am PT (586 words)
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Doc's Talk: The Region: Salam Fayyad cannot deliver Likes: 1
BARRY RUBINPM is the most moderate PA official, but doesn't represent Palestinian thinking. Imagine this. You’re a prime minister praised in the Western media as a moderate man of peace. You represent a people who the US president says is in an intolera...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 7:33am PT (972 words)
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Judeosphere: Selective Outrage Over Swastikas
Recently, janitors at the University of Oregon entered the office of the LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Allies) to discover a four-by-four-and-a-half foot swastika spray-painted on the carpet. Hundreds of students and local ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:45am PT (532 words)
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Sophie The Giraffe in the Middle East: Sophie ha girafa סופי הג'יראפה is on Facebook
I am generally skeptical about Facebook. It is taking me a lot of time to let myself participate. I am one of those people who still prefer the offline exchanges. I joined FB 6 years ago for work purpose: finding out what those social networks were, what ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:51am PT (649 words)
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Astro Torah: New Rules of Physics or Translating Chumash? Likes: 2
In the end of this week’s parsha the shalosh regalim are mentioned. The same general language to refer to them is repeated again towards the end of Ki Sisa in a few weeks. There are, however, a few discrepencies that can be seen. What especially arouses...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 12:53pm PT (735 words)
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The Rabbi Jaffe Blog: Abandoned by Baltimore City Likes: 1
It’s Monday morning. The snow stopped falling at 3PM Saturday afternoon. And despite the fact that after five hours of back-breaking shovelling my home and car, it’s of no consequence. My street has yet to be plowed. No car could come in o...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 6:40am PT (609 words)
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Doc's Talk: A Six-Hour Infomercial Can't Save Obamacare Likes: 1
Heritage FoundationRight before the Super Bowl, President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform with CBS News' Katie Couric: "I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas th...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 7:33am PT (533 words)
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Doc's Talk: That "Cost-Benefit" Thing: How U.S. Intelligence Assessments Misunderstand Iran and Lots More in the Middle East Likes: 1
Barry Rubin*February 8, 2010http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/02/cost-benefit"We continue to judge that Iran's nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach, which offers the international community opportunities to influence Iran." ...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 8:48am PT (1109 words)
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SkipMacLure: Republicans! Beware Of Obama’s Move To The Right.
Be wary… be very wary. There are a number of gutless Republicans who would like nothing better than to be thought of as ‘reaching across the aisle’ to find some sort of accommodation with the White House, so as not to be seen as the ‘party o...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 10:06am PT (568 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Life's Course
The army has a much coveted course that it offers to a limited number of soldiers. It can't offer it to all of them. For the most part, it is another benefit given to combat soldiers, though others are also able to attend when space is available. Elie was...
Dateline: 2010-02-08 6:17am PT (826 words)
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