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Articles
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JITTERS AND JUBILATION IN JERUSALEM
On Jerusalem Day Israel celebrates the unity of the city but how unified is it?
By David E. Kaplan
With much on Jerusalem Day to celebrate there is much as well to warrant concern. While we now have a capital of the Jewish People that is geographically united, how united are its people? An incident with visiting family from the USA, prompted some largely unanswered questions.
JITTERS AND JUBILATION IN JERUSALEM
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ARAB TERROR LEADERS SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PROFESSION
Reflections from Israel amidst another round of hostilities
By Jonathan Feldstein
Does not matter anymore what floor terrorist leaders live on, that is where they may die and not of old age! Israel’s precision surgical-like targeting of terror leaders in their apartments leaving the rest of the building intact, may be changing the rules of the game in counterterrorism.
ARAB TERROR LEADERS SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PROFESSION
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WANT TO GET AHEAD OF HATE?
Follow Social Media Rhetoric
By Aviva Klompas and Rachel Fish
In an era of social media, “algorithms” and “worldwide connectivity” are the ‘weapons’ of easy access. Through contrived visuals and prose, they are proving no less lethal than guns and Jews worldwide are in the crosshairs.
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MIND THE ROCKETS AND PASS THE SUGAR
Recollections and reflections of a South African immigrant under fire
By Joel Klotnick
Sitting with friends at a café, the writer looked up to see a rocket plume high in the sky and then another followed seconds later by a “BOOM”. The scrip thereafter is predicably the same – find cover, call your loved ones and return to the ‘proverbial’ table. “Anyone for more tea?”
MIND THE ROCKETS AND PASS THE SUGAR
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