Close to two thousand brightly dressed, enthusiastic to be
there Gay Pride Marchers paraded down King David
Street in Jerusalem
on Thursday evening. Simultaneously,
about 1500 haredim or ultra...
The omnipresence of advertising...at least she is pleasant to look at."A giant silhouette of a naked pole dancer painted on a field beneath Gatwick Airport's flight path is disturbing the British countryside. The 100,000 square foot (9,300 square meter) advertisement is...
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Gay pride activitsts scored a significant victory this week as the Jerusalem police gave a last minute thumbs up to parade through the streets this coming week. Long hoping to march through Jerusalem, the...
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Hamas has seized control over the Gaza Strip followed the death of 35 Palestinians killed in the factional fighting. More than 70 people have been killed since Gaza slipped into a full-scale civil war at the...
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The level of satisfaction with life of Jewish Israelis stands in stark contrast to those living in Gaza. Suggesting the stark difference between quality of life for the two peoples despite the closeness in...
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"We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too many questions." Perhaps, it is...
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In Thailand a pair of mutts rescued from the street and turned into drug sniffing dogs were relieved of their duties today for enjoying them a little too much.""He liked to pee on luggage while searching for...
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Both Fatah and Hamas said that Gaza had "descended into civil war" on Tuesday according to a report by the AP. "Tuesday's battles marked a turning point, with Hamas moving systematically to seize Fatah...
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Thousands of Israelis ascended to the top of the hillside
that once hosted the West Bank settlement of
Chomesh. Today in the ruins of the city,
right wing activists and settlers gathered to listen to speakers and...
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Though terrorists in the Middle East have not hesitated to use ambulances or vehicles marked as international observers, a new tactic emerged this weekend when gunmen infiltrated Israel in a vehicle bearing red...
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“It scares me,” I admitted over humus and falafel to the blue-green eyed, dark haired man sitting diagonally to me at a small, fluorescently lit restaurant just off of Ben Yehuda Street in downtown...
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Marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War hundreds of anti-settlement protesters gathered in Hebron, the iconic city home to the first settlement marking for some the glory of the settlement movement...
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The increase in radicalism within Muslim society in Israel
and the Middle East coupled with a concern over the
growing subjugation of women within the Arab world has prompted much attention
as of late. ...
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A man stands in the Resistance Café. The walls are bare save for scattered bullet holes and the dark sand stains ever present on exposed surfaces in the Middle East. A small coffee maker sits lonely on a back...
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Arkadi Gaydamak dismantled his tent city today that had been set up to house residents of Sderot eager to escape the recent kassam bombardment. David Nitzani, the project organizer, told the Israeli paper...
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