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@ BethanyShondark Free spirit, freethinker. Earlier this spring, with ice still in the Garden (Madison Square Garden), Seth Mandel announced to his wife Bethany, “I have something very important to tell the baby,” the firstborn they’re expecting in the fall. “That’s how I knew the Rangers won,” Bethany tweeted. Mandel tweets early and often, as […]

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Israel has been much in the news lately, and a good portion of the coverage over the past months has been good. That in itself is news. A recent Bloomberg survey showed that the Israeli shekel is currently among the strongest of 31 major currencies, a result of the booming economy. Also in May, after […]

At first, Mira Awad didn’t want to be thought of as a bridge between cultures. The Palestinian-Israeli singer and songwriter grew up in an Arab village in the Galilee, studied music in Tel Aviv and has written and performed with musicians of many backgrounds. She felt the weight of being an Arab in Israel who […]

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