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Life, Death And Cheesecake: The Truth About Shavuot

Rabbi Shais Taub | Posted 05.13.2013 | Religion
Read More: Golda Meir, Shavuot, Passover, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Chabad, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Life, Jewish Wisdom, Spiritual Development, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Shais Taub

You would think people would get excited about mass prophecy, but alas, there's no denying: Passover, the holiday of the Exodus, is way more popular than Shavuos, when we received the Torah. Why is it that we are more attracted to drama than to enlightenment? The solution is cheesecake.

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Golda to Henry: "Why Do You Think We Put Them There?"

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 04.30.2013 | World
Read More: Yom Kippur War, Gaza, West Bank, Henry Kissinger, East Jerusalem, Golda Meir, King-David-Hotel, World News
Dr. Charles G. Cogan

The hopes of some Israelis that the Arabs of the West Bank would migrate elsewhere have not been fulfilled. And as President Barack Obama stated in his recent visit to Israel, "Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer."

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Feminizing Israel

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 01.25.2013 | World
Read More: Shelly Yachimovich, Tzipi Livni, Israel, Women's Rights in Israel, Golda Meir, Women's Rights, Israel Women's Rights, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Last week, Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language made an interesting ruling. The academy decided that all titles of official government positions can and should be described with the feminine form of the relevant noun when a given position is held by a woman.

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Fascinating Jews

S.R. Hewitt | Posted 08.19.2012 | Religion
Read More: Jews, Doktor Esperanto, Mordecai Manuel Noah, Kook, Max Weber, Golda Meir, Brandeis, Slidepollajax, Jewish, Judaism, Abarbanel, Jewish Personalities, Pappenhaim, Religion News
S.R. Hewitt

With over three thousand years of history, there is no question that the Jewish people have had their share of fascinating individuals. Here are snapshots of nine fascinating figures featured in NJOP's new eBook: Jewish Treats: 99 Fascinating Jewish Personalities.

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Celebrating Visionary Women of the World

Angella Nazarian | Posted 05.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Inspirational, Zaha Hadid, Anais Nin, Leadership, Marina Silva, Wangari Maathai, Estee Lauder, International Women's Day, Simone De Beauvoir, Amma, Master Cheng Yen, Gertrude Berg, Self-Esteem, Rigoberta Menchu, Angella Nazarian, Somaly Mam, Mentors, Conchita Cintron, Jacqueline Novogratz, Frida Kahlo, Women, Helen Suzman, Personal Growth, Pioneers of the Possible, Golda Meir, Celebrating Visionary Women, Slidepollajax, Ella Fitzgerald, Nawal El Moutawakel, Visionary, Forugh Farrokhzad, Women's Day, Women News
Angella Nazarian

My hope is that the stories of these visionary women present to us the flame of the passionate life, the knife of insight, and the courage to stand for what one sees without looking away.

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The 50th Anniversary of Kennedy's "Go to the Moon" Speech

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 07.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Jfk, Space Shuttle, Space Race, Golda Meir, Politics News
Meg Waite Clayton

President Kennedy had no idea how we might accomplish the goal of putting an American on the moon when he announced the goal. No one did.

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'They Don't Make Movies About Boring People:' Two New Documentaries Tackle AIDS, Government

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Title IX, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Julian Shaw, Glass Ceiling, Aids Education, Patsy Takemoto, Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Malcolm X, Evita Bezuidenhout, Richard Gephardt, Bella Abzug, Pieter-Dirk Yus, Dame Edna, Thabo Mbeki, Hiv, Mahatma Gandhi, Roy Cohn, Harvey Milk, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, George Carlin, Kinsey Sicks, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Franklin Odo, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Imagine someone with the bluntness of the George Carlin, the wardrobe of the Kinsey Sicks, and the following of Dame Edna and you'll get an idea of what kind of social catalyst Pieter-Dirk Uys became for South Africans.

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What Did the Arabs Really Win in the 1973 War With Israel?

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Tel Aviv, Amir Bar-Lev, Bar Lev Line, Sinai, Hafez-Al-Assad, Anwar Sadat, Arab-Israeli Peace, Cairo, Egypt, Sinai-Peninsula, Golda Meir, Yom Kippur War, Damascus-Syria, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East Peace, Camp David Peace Accords, Libya, Middle East, World News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

In the 37 years since this "victory," the Arabs have been unable to persuade Israel to agree to the Arab Peace Initiative and have become absolutely impotent to prevent it from continuing the construction of settlements.

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Ruth Gruber, Journalism Pioneer, Finally Gets Credit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ahead of Time, Ruth Gruber Interview, Golda Meir, Harry Truman, Natasha Richardson, David Ben-Gurion, New York Herald Tribune, Overseas Press Club, Haven, Exodus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Called Ahead of Time, the film by director Bob Richman follows Gruber's remarkable career as a pioneering journalist and writer from the 1920s onward.

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Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gold Standard, Bill of Rights, Davy Crockett, Tejanos, Terri Leo, Democracy, Golda Meir, Hip-Hop, US History, Jim Bowie, Texas, History, Nature's God, Mavis Knight, Text Books, Laws of Nature, Constitutional Republic, Textbooks, Curriculum, Evolution, Constitution, Public Education, Country Music, Creation, Politics News

***UPDATE*** Think Progress flags some of the more eye-opening revisions the Texas Board of Education approved for its social studies curriculum and ...

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Can Obama Re-Unite Liberals and Moderates?

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Health-Care-Exchanges, Democrats, Barack Obama, Thomas Friedman, Golda Meir, Politics News
Sheri and Allan Rivlin

This year's best political play may turn out to be the Republican policy of "just say no," because it puts maximum pressure on Democrats to keep their two wings flapping in the same direction.

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Doctor of the Heart: A Book Review

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Memoir, Physicians, Healthcare Reform, Leonid Brezhnev, Healthcare, Golda Meir, Cardiology, Books News
Arthur Rosenfeld

It's not every day that a novelist gets to review his own father's memoir. The publication of Doctor of the Heart is perfectly timed amidst dissecting scrutiny of our national healthcare system.

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"If Sarah Palin Looked Like Golda"

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tel-Aviv, Alaska, Golda Meir, Mike Murphy, Tina Fey, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Gershon Hepner

Poem inspired by an observation made by Mike Murphy, a former John McCain strategist

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Israel's Risk

Chris Meserole | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: IDF YouTube, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran, Gaza, Golda Meir, Israel, Tzipi Livni, Snl, Hamas, Idf, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Ground Invasion, Palestinian Territories, Fatah, Ehud Barak, Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News
Chris Meserole

What we're watching in Gaza is not so much low-intensity warfare as the continued fracture of the post-Soviet international order.

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Black and Blue: Obama and Golda

Haim Watzman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Israel, Obama, Election Results, Election 2008, Race, Feminism, Golda Meir, Barack Obama President, Barack Obama, Politics News
Haim Watzman

The significance of Obama's victory will be that he has convinced the American people that the selfish, aggressive, and patronizing America of the Bush administration has been a disaster.

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Sarah Palin Is Making Powerful and Sexy a Potent Brew Without Emasculating Her Husband

Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women in Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Women's Issues, Vice President Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Golda Meir, Power, Drill Baby Drill, Femininity, Feminism, Sexuality, Healthy Living News
Jill Brooke

It sure doesn't look like Sarah Palin will be facing divorce. She may have difficulty explaining foreign policy, but she is clearly proud to assert femininity and sexuality along with power.

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Hillary and the Unfeminine Mystique

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama, Golda Meir, Thatcher, Hillary, Feminist, Women in Politics, Hillary Feminism, Politics News
Joan Z. Shore

Hillary was using the old paradigm: To beat men you've got to be like them. What a difference it would have made if her campaign had employed some "feminine" qualities.

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