Articles tagged "israel"

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Hamas TV’s child star says she’s ready for martyrdom

by Dion Nissenbaum [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Aug.07] :. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light...

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Exit Wounds by Ruru Modan

by Bradford R. Pilcher

[30.Jul.07] :. That Modan pulls off this little parable without once invoking the Arab-Israeli conflict directly is even more impressive.

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TRAVELOGUE: An Israel that goes beyond the headlines

by Jane Wooldridge [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Jul.07] :. Whatever you imagine Israel to be, it probably isn’t this: Buttery local olive oil, hinting of spice, sampled on a breezy afternoon beneath a cardamom tree. Chardonnay so crisp you can almost...

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Multimedia Review

Peacemaker

by Jesse Hicks

[22.Jun.07] :. Succeed, and you'll win the Nobel Peace Prize. Fail, and the Middle East will once again be consumed by violence.

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DePaul professor’s criticism of Israel endangers tenure consideration

by Ron Grossman [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. CHICAGO - A tenure committee at DePaul University may weigh in Friday on a donnybrook that has been waged with a combination of learned footnotes and body-blow rhetoric, a fight reverberating across...

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Here’s the pitch: baseball in Israel

by Joel Greenberg [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. JERUSALEM - When Ken Holtzman, a former star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and a prominent Jewish ballplayer, was offered the post of manager in a new professional baseball league to be launched this...

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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Bring together Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh (1949- ) and Israeli statesman Shimon Peres (1923-) and the first thought that occurs to any longtime observer of the Arab-Israeli conflict is: Get a room.

Trembling Before G-d (2001) - PopMatters Film Review )

by Devon Powers

Handles uncomfortable material with bravery and tender force; it is utterly human and unrelenting in its challenges to assumptions.