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Articles
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MEN’aces FROM THE MINISTRY
Each one rotten all the way up to PM Netanyahu
By David E. Kaplan
A far cry from the British classic comedy series, there is nothing funny – only pathetic, sad and dangerous – that comes out from the mouths of Israel’s current crop of cabinet ministers. Their only talent displayed so far is not in running but ruining our country!
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HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
A reputation of tough and tenacious, SA Rugby loses its spine
By Lennie Lurie
It is no surprise when South Africans today turn on the light switch, they tall too frequently remain in the dark. Instead of ‘TACKLING’ the issues crippling their country, they focus on who they don’t want to play rugby against – Israel! Is darkness to be their destiny?
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CELEBRATING A MODERN PERSIAN HEROINE
Reflections during Purim of a latter-day heroine, Marzi, a defiant and brave Iranian Christian
By Jonathan Feldstein
Thousands of years after the Jewish heroine Esther saved her exiled people in Persia, a young Christian woman survives a brutal interrogation and a sentence of death for “apostacy” in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. An exile today in the USA, Marzi, is a shining example of defiantly standing up to a ruthless autocratic tyranny.
CELEBRATING A MODERN PERSIAN HEROINE
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