Israel Archives

31 Jul

Israel’s Highless Marijuana

October 11, 2012
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by Daniela Enriquez A new oxymoron is born. After non-alcoholic beer and decaf coffee, the world is finally ready to welcome “highless” marijuana. Israeli scientists working...

26 Jul

Culture, Latest

An Israeli Olympics

July 30, 2021
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The Israeli Olympics team prepares for the 2012 Summer Games, but the athletes aren’t the only ones getting ready.

20 Jul

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest, Misc, Religion

No Gaga Here: Extreme Summer Camps in the Middle East

February 1, 2013
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By Rebecca Borison While I grew up at a Jewish summer camp playing Gaga, kids growing up in slightly (read: very) different areas than me are...

18 Jul

History, Latest, topics

TIAA-CREF Divests from Caterpillar

February 1, 2013
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By Julia Glauberman In recent weeks, TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services organization that manages nearly $500 billion in assets, has announced that it will remove Caterpillar,...

27 Jun

Culture, Latest

Miss Holocaust 2012?

October 11, 2012
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by Rebecca Borison As the number of remaining Holocaust survivors inevitably diminishes, many have attempted to record the survivors’ stories, through books, videos or other means....

06 Jun

Culture, Latest

Model Citizens

October 11, 2012
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by Rebecca Borison Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, newly crowned the hottest woman in the world by Maxim magazine, will likely be relieved to know that, at 5'8"...

04 Apr

History, Misc, topics

Escape from Freedom?

February 1, 2013
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By Martin Berman-Gorvine As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...

30 Mar

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An Iranian-Israeli Love-In?

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Kelley Kidd Recently, Facebook has been bombarding me. Not with its usual memes and Spotify updates, but with a slew of politically oriented statuses and...

27 Mar

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The AIPAC/J Street Color War

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Charles Kopel A new spring ritual has taken form for American Jews concerned with Israel activism. The AIPAC Policy Conference, a mainstay in the American...

20 Mar

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March Comes In with AIPAC and Goes Out with J Street

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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March is bookended by two Israel-related conferences in Washington this year: the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, attended by about 13,000 people, was held the first...

08 Mar

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Twenty (Jewish) Questions

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
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by Kelley Kidd Monday night, I sat in traffic in a taxi outside the Washington Convention Center as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gala...

02 Feb

Religion, topics

Journalists Lynn Sweet and Ron Kampeas on the Jewish Vote

February 1, 2013
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By Alexis McNamee For more on the Jewish vote in the 2012 presidential election, yesterday we listened in to “The Jewish Federations of North America Teleconference...