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03 Mar

2014 March/April, World

Opinion | Who’s Afraid of Al Jazeera?

May 30, 2017
By Amy E. Schwartz
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By Amy E. Schwartz An American offshoot of the Qatari network makes some watchdogs nervous. Media observers buzzed with consternation last August when Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned...

03 Mar

2014 March/April, World

Opinion | Why Democracy in Egypt Still Matters

By Tamara Cofman Wittes The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever. Three years after the hopeful scenes of the Arab...

03 Mar

2014 March/April, Israel

Opinion | Israel’s Unresolved Democracy Problem

May 30, 2017
By Marshall Breger
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By Marshall Breger How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis don’t know what that means? In 1958, David Ben-Gurion wrote to 47 leading Jewish...

31 Dec

2014 January-February, World

Opinion // Will Israel and the U.S. Break Up over Iran?

May 30, 2017
By Robert Satloff
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By Robert Satloff Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014. Israel begins 2014 facing a truly Dickensian moment—enjoying the best...

31 Dec

2014 January-February, Israel, World

Natural Gas: Israel’s Game Changer

May 30, 2017
By Martin Fletcher
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Recent discoveries of large natural gas reserves off Israel’s coast will soon transform the country into an energy exporter, and bring in billions of dollars in new revenue. But the new finds also open up a Pandora’s Box of environmental, financial, social, security and foreign policy concerns.

20 Aug

2007 February-March, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

David Marash: A Jew in Al Jazeera’s House

June 6, 2017
By Boris Weintraub
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In the Studio with Dave Marash Dave Marash is on the air, seated at the news anchor desk in a television studio on K Street in...

05 Jun

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All Is Heaven with Avigdor Lieberman

June 6, 2017
By Lily Galili
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The young waitress in the Tel Aviv hotel lobby can’t hide her excitement. The most controversial politician in Israel is here, ever impatient and attired...

13 May

2011 March-April, Israel, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Talk of the Table

Lebanon vs. Israel: A Delicious Culinary War

March 11, 2024
By Alix Mckenna
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The Lebanese counterattack on Israel was carefully planned, precisely organized and ruthlessly executed by an army of 300. The mission: Unseat Israel as the hummus...

13 May

2011 January-February, Issues, World

The Film that Launched a Thousand Court Cases

June 1, 2017
By Niv Elis
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Few films have packed as much punch for American political culture as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. With the Cold War shifting into...

18 Jan

2011 January-February, Israel, Issues

The Man Who Stopped the Freeze

June 1, 2017
By Ilene Prusher
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Dani Dayan, head of Israel’s settler lobby, Yesha, has successfully kept another settlement freeze—and peace talks—off the table. But can this mild-mannered former software tycoon...

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13 Jul

Culture, Latest, Religion

Shabbat’s Gray Area

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Rebecca Borison Israeli President Shimon Peres recently announced that he has cancelled his trip to London for the Olympics’ opening ceremony. Why? When he discovered...

24 Feb

Culture, Religion, topics

Election News Roundup

By Monika Wysocki Here's a look at a few religion and politics highlights from this week... The newest front-runner in the wildly unpredictable GOP primary, former Senator...