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Adam Kredo at the Washington Jewish Week picks up a startling dissent from Obama administration policy from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) at yesterday’s U.S.-Islamic Forum: By repeatedly — and publicly — chiding Israel on settlement growth, Obama “wasted a year and a half on something that for a number of reasons was not achievable,” Kerry […]

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Are locusts a plague? Not always–in fact, sometimes, they’re lunch. Four species of locust are listed in the Torah as being kosher. They are the red locust, the yellow locust, the spotted grey locust, and the white locust (Leviticus 11:20). It’s hard to know which contemporary bugs these correspond to; the biblical descriptions were written before Latin classifications of genus […]

Today, Mark Twain is known for writing classic novels such as Huckleberry Finn and The Prince & the Pauper. But in his lifetime, he was most famous for The Innocents Abroad, a nonfiction travelogue of his journey to Palestine, which outsold all his other books. His trip took place in 1867, aboard a retired Civil War steamship that had been re-outfitted as a luxury […]

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