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As Israel makes the case for its military actions in Gaza, international attention is focused on the United Nations, where a newcomer to the world of diplomacy has been thrust front and center. Less than four months removed from a quiet academic life at home in Israel, UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, whose political leanings are […]

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Chanukah 5769 is one for the books — the Guinness Book of World Records. Around the world this week, several Jewish communities vied to establish various records – largest menorah, largest crowd, largest number of menorahs concurrently lit – at their public celebrations of the Holiday of Lights. In Sderot, residents of the town that […]

British writer James Montague spent three years traveling throughout the Middle East watching soccer games in order to understand the region’s societies — Jews and Arabs in Israel, Arabs and Muslims in the rest of the countries — through the prism of the world’s most popular sport. The result is “When Friday Comes: Football in […]

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