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Category Archives: Israel
Israeli Court Limits Blogs Freedom of Speech
Jameel writes: Orthomom Redux? While Freedom of Speech is protected by the US Constitution, it’s a whole different ballgame in Israel. Disagree with your local municipal council? One blogger did…and found his blogger anonymity disappearing under court order to Google. … Continue reading
Israel Baseball Scandal
From TabloidBaby: We told you a month ago that Our Man Elli in Israel, who saved lives, changed the course of Israeli sports history and set the future of Israel professional baseball on a straightforward course for its next season … Continue reading
Chabad Embraces Conspiracy Theorist Barry Chamish
Steven Plaut writes: …I find it regrettable to see one group of Chabadniks promoting the infantile conspiracy "theories" of UFO "investigator" Barry Chamish. This Chabad web site is devoting space to Chamish and the latter’s talk before a couple dozen … Continue reading
ELLI WOHLGELERNTER SPEAKS ABOUT THE SHOCKING RESIGNATIONS OF THE ISRAEL BASEBALL LEAGUE
From TabloidBaby: It is 2:43 am in Jerusalem. Our Man Elli in Israel is hard at work on the latest developments in an international story that is bound to put him in Pulitzer Prize contention. The commissioner of the Israel … Continue reading
Raging Rafaeli sues Israeli newspaper
Dikla Kadosh writes: Leo’s ex, who’s quickly moved on to pro surfer Kelly Slater, has an odd way of doing damage control. After the Israeli supermodel tarnished her image in an October Yediot Ahronot article titled "Bar Refaeli Versus the … Continue reading
A Modern Marketplace for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox
Steven Erlanger writes: BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — When Larry Pinczower switches on his cellphone, the seal of a rabbinate council appears. Unable to send text messages, take photographs or connect to the Internet, his phone is a religiously approved adaptation … Continue reading
Bibi Netanyahu – Israel’s Great Right Hope
Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: For not the first time in his political career, Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s Great Right Hope – a figure looked to with increasing longing by an electorate fed up with the blunders … Continue reading
Under Fire In Lebanon
Dikla Kadosh writes: Yoav Galai documented the Israel-Lebanon war in the summer of 2006 as the only embedded photographer. No other Israeli photojournalist wanted the job. And when Galai returned with graphic images and an ignominious tale, no Israeli newspaper … Continue reading
Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial
From the New York Times: JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 — It was one of Israel’s dirty little secrets. In the early 1960s, as Israelis were being exposed for the first time to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors at the trial … Continue reading
FBI Investigating Boeing Scientist & Devout Orthodox Jew For Friendly Spying For Israel?
Vic Walter and Eric Longabardi Report For ABC News: Agents in the FBI’s foreign counterintelligence unit have opened a criminal investigation into the handling of classified material by a senior scientist at Boeing. The scientist, Abraham Lesnik, of suburban Los … Continue reading