July 23, 2012

 

 

Number 170 - 2012/30                        July 23, 2012                             Av 4, 5772

Kan Israel

(Duo Datz)

 

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JEWISH BITES:

General Order 11 (1862) expelling Jews from the Department of Tennessee (Wikipedia)

 

ISRAEL IS REAL

Disabled Israeli Vets to receive Bionic knees (The Times of Israel)

Hollywood's hair secrets - Made in Israel (Israel 21c)

Hummus ice cream anyone? (Israel 21c)

Top ten ways Israel fights desertification (Israel 21c)

The Israeli fish that lays golden eggs (Israel21c)

Israeli kids take gold in MindLab Olympics (Israel 21c)

Seeing through walls and around corners (No Camels)

Why Koreans study Talmud (YNet News)

 

Israel Advocacy

18 years after the attack in Buenos Aires, seven young Israelis killed in Bulgaria (HaAretz)

Abbas rejected Netanyahu's offer to free prisoners for Peace Talks (HaAretz)

Abbas not ready to resume Pace talks with Israel, Palestinian Minister says (HaAretz)

The Presbyterian vote on Israel: Cause for concern (Stand with Us)

Link provided by Ziva Dahl

Israel fears window for Iran attack starting to close(Times of Israel)

Service to Israel tugs at Identity of Arab citizens (New York Times)

Understanding the Levy report. US protests but agrees(Arutz Sheva)

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Christian Zionism: an overdue reality check (the Daily Beast)

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Egyptian Foreign Minister links Peace treaty to Israel's retreat to 67' borders (US State Department Website)

Clinton: Israel must help strengthen Palestinian Authority(HaAretz)

Update on Terrorist attack against Israelis in Bulgaria(IsraelPolitik)

Does the Levy Report doom Israel? (Commentary Magazine)

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Hamas improves rocket range capabilities (Israel HaYom) 

Israeli appointed to top UN Counter-terrorism post(Washington Post)

 

 

 

 

 

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BLOGGING JEWISH IN DUTCHESS  

 

As an Argentinean Jew, July 18 will always be for me a poignant reminder of the violence and the death which can be visited upon innocent people. Eighteen years ago, on July 18, I was sitting at my desk at the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, where I was the Community Relations director, when I received a phone call from Jacobo Kovadloff, a fellow Argentinean Jew working at the time in New York for the American Jewish Committee. He told me that the AMIA building, the Jewish community headquarters in Buenos Aires, had been bombed.

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Monday, July 23

"This is my G-d" discussion group at Schomre Israel

Adult Hebrew Class at Schomre Israel

 

Wednesday, July 25

JCCDC/JFS Lunch and Learn 

 

Sunday, July 29

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