Monthly Archives: July 2010

Yiddish song revival

Published on The Jewish Week (http://www.thejewishweek.com) Generations Of Yiddish Song [1] Adrienne Cooper performs next week at Damrosch Park as part of the “Music for a Better World” show. Adrienne Cooper’s new projects span the years, with collaborators old and … Continue reading

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Obsession with peace process

The Broken Link: What Peace Won’t Fix Let the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolve itself on its own terms, if it is ever to be resolved, and let us not force upon the parties a solution that neither of them are willing … Continue reading

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Gaza children break records

Kites fly high over Gaza as children at UN summer camp soar to new world record from UN News Centre http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35473&Cr=&Cr1= 29 July 2010 –More than 6,200 children attending a summer camp in the Gaza Strip run by the United … Continue reading

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Indoctrinating the suffering Palestinians

Playing politics: summer camp for Gaza’s children UN vies with Islamic Jihad and Hamas to keep hundreds of thousands entertained in summer By Harriet Sherwood, Guardian UK, July 29, 2010 Palestinian girls at an UN Relief and Works Agency day … Continue reading

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Psychology of facial recognition

For embarrassing memory lapses blame your neurons Reprinted from Sify News, July 29, 2010 A specific part of our brain processes information about human and animal faces and is responsible for how we recognize them and interpret facial expressions. Now, … Continue reading

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Humanitarian hypocrits

The Flotilla Farce Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy. By DANNY AYALON, WSJ Europe, July 29, 2010 A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege to … Continue reading

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Beware of sinas chinom

Antisemitism and Introspection Av 17, 5770, 28 July 10 by Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This year, Tisha B’Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once … Continue reading

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Powerful Jewish nose

Sniffing Device Helps Disabled People Move, Write Technology Helps Severely Disabled People Use Their Noses to Drive Electric Wheelchairs, Write Text Messages By Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News, July 27, 2010 Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD July 26, 2010 — … Continue reading

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