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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Mt. Meron and the Metaverse
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Mt. Meron and the Metaverse Lag B’Omer has come and gone; Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is still a while before us. But the former has something important to teach us about the latter – and it strikes at the very heart
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News May 19, 2022
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News May 19, 2022 Masterschool announces $100 million Seed round to build network of tech career-training schools. The Israeli company, which had been bootstrapped since its founding in 2019, has deve
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United Hatzalah – Missing Man On Ashkelon Coast Results In Dramatic ATV Rescue
United Hatzalah – Missing Man On Ashkelon Coast Results In Dramatic ATV Rescue Ashkelon – A man in his 20s was reported missing last night (Sunday) around 7:30 p.m. His last known whereabouts were on Nitzanim Beach near Ashkelon. Due to repor
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Why the Original Path Ultimately Blocks our Progress
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Why the Original Path Ultimately Blocks our Progress We live in a world with a lot of social, economic, and political dysfunction. Here’s a major reason why: “Path Dependence” – one of the most important con
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 15, 2022
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 15, 2022 Another action-packed week with Israelis saving untold numbers of lives with new stem cell treatments, 2-minute biopsies, innovative surgery, sensors to prevent drowning and under 3-minute responses
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News 5-13-22
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News 5-13-22 The global domino effect is shaking up high-tech complacency and is rapidly approaching Israel. The sharp declines in capital markets over the past month are changing the playing conditio
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UNPACKED: Watch: 1948: Israel’s Battle for Independence | The Jewish Story
UNPACKED: Watch: 1948: Israel’s Battle for Independence | The Jewish Story Three years after the Holocaust and the devastating loss of six million Jews, Jewish refugees were desperately trying to immigrate to Israel. However, then British-mandated P
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Steve Kramer – Run-up to Israel’s Independence Day
Steve Kramer – Run-up to Israel’s Independence Day Israel recently commemorated its 74th year of independence, preceded by the memorial day for military and terrorist casualties. To celebrate Israel’s birthday, which follows Passover by two week
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Telling it Like It Is(n’t) in Israel and America
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Telling it Like It Is(n’t) in Israel and America If there’s a common theme running through Israeli and American Jewry’s thoughts about each other, it’s the different way they talk and how they say it. This is not a
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 8, 2022
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 8, 2022 Israelis were really flying with innovations and humanitarian activities this past week. A Ukrainian girl was flown to Israel for heart surgery; blue-sky thinking unlocked more secrets of how the b
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News May 6, 2022
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News May 6, 2022 The 50 most promising Israeli startups – 2022. The high-tech market has cooled off, so in this year’s list of the 50 most promising Israeli startups we placed a special focus
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UNPACKED: Golda Meir: The Girl from Milwaukee who Became Prime Minister
UNPACKED: Golda Meir: The Girl from Milwaukee who Became Prime Minister Best known for being Israel’s first (and only to date) female prime minister, Golda Meir, started life in Kiev before moving with her family to Milwaukee in 1906. After a quick stin
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel Joining the Tide of Regionalism
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel Joining the Tide of Regionalism If you follow the pundits, then you’re aware that Corona and the Ukraine conflict have basically rung the death knell of Globalization, as countries realize that they must be more se
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May, 1, 2022
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May, 1, 2022 Israel’s 74th birthday, on Weds evening and Thursday, follows another week of positive news from the Jewish State. More research on preventing serious Covid-19 infections; innovative medical
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IDF – Watch: Righteous Among the Nations: CPL Noah’s Family Legacy
IDF – Watch: Righteous Among the Nations: CPL Noah’s Family Legacy During the Holocaust, Noah’s family saved Jews from the Nazis. Today, Noah is a soldier in the IDF. The family has a tree planted in their honor at Yad Vashem—the World
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – From Priest to People: Kedoshim
Jonathan Sacks z”l – From Priest to People: Kedoshim My wife and I had the blessing to have met Rabbi Sacks z”l with his wife while we were walking on the Promanade in Tel Aviv a number of years ago. We met and introduced ourselves to th
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HonestReporting – Media’s Eyes Wide Shut
HonestReporting – Media’s Eyes Wide Shut Media’s Eyes Wide Shut: Iran’s ‘Hidden’ Hand Behind Palestinian Violence Atop Temple Mount Are global media outlets complicit in obfuscating the true root causes of ongoing unrest at holy sites in J
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Tel Aviv University – Antisemitism Peaked Globally in 2021
Tel Aviv University – Antisemitism Peaked Globally in 2021 On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day Tel Aviv University’s Center for The Study of Contemporary European Jewry publishes The Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide: Antisemitism pe
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News April 27, 2022
CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News April 27, 2022 Riverside.fm nets $35 million Series B for remote recording platform. The audio and video recording service is used in the broadcast media, entertainment, and tech spaces with capa
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Steve Kramer – Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the epicenter of violence
Steve Kramer – Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the epicenter of violence There’s been a lot of mayhem lately at the Temple Mount (the summit of Mount Moriah) in Jerusalem, which is a magnet for religious Jews, especially during Passover. Because this
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CTECH – Israeli High School Team Takes Second Place in Prestigious Robotics Competition
CTECH – Israeli High School Team Takes Second Place in Prestigious Robotics Competition by Roy Baharir-Perl / CTech H/T Algemeiner News Service Israeli team Steampunk1577 from the Aviv High School in Ra’anana claimed second place in the First Cham
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – What Zelensky Got Right about Israel – and also Wrong
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – What Zelensky Got Right about Israel – and also Wrong Among his daily (occasionally, even hourly) pronouncements to the world, Ukraine’s President Zelensky keeps on returning to comparisons between his country and Israe
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EoZ: How “human rights groups” covered (or didn’t cover) Friday’s Temple Mount riots
EoZ: How “human rights groups” covered (or didn’t cover) Friday’s Temple Mount riots h/t Elder of Ziyon According to Palestinian media, some 250 “civil service and human rights organizations’ signed a statement condemni
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IsraelSeen: This Is What It’s Like Being An IDF Paratrooper
IsraelSeen: This Is What It’s Like Being An IDF Paratrooper The Paratroopers Brigade is an infantry brigade in the IDF. The Paratroopers are trained in how to parachute in combat operations, as well in navigation, reconnaissance and intelligence mission
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Victor Rosenthal – Israel: A Long Collection of Short Topics
Victor Rosenthal – Israel: A Long Collection of Short Topics I don’t want to be one of those writers who keeps writing long past the point at which he should have stopped. This piece will be my last regular blog. It may be the outline for a book.
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 18, 2022
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 18, 2022 This Passover, an Israeli astronaut is passing over our heads experiencing a unique view of the Cosmos. He is working 400km above the Earth on groundbreaking experiments to benefit humanity. Mea
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Steve Kramer – Israel through a Tourist’s Eyes Part II
Steve Kramer – Israel through a Tourist’s Eyes Part II Our friend Jimmy came to Israel for the first time a few weeks ago. He combined staying with us and several days each in Tel Aviv-Yafo (Jaffa) and Jerusalem, as well as two tours when we trave
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Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – From Oppression to Freedom
Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – From Oppression to Freedom 14 April (Passover) 2022 Hi again from Israel, Unless you live on Mars or Venus, you will be aware of the war in Ukraine. There is 24/7 news of the conflict in all the media togeth
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WATCH Israeli laser-based air defense shoots down drones
WATCH Israeli laser-based air defense shoots down drones Times of Israel: In a video released by the ministry, the laser-based system can be seen intercepting a rocket, a mortar, and a drone at an undisclosed location in southern Israel’s
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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation and Technology News April 13, 2022
CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation and Technology News April 13, 2022 OpenWeb acquiring advertising platform ADYOULIKE for $100 million. ADYOULIKE was launched in Paris in 2011 and works with over 4,000 brands, agencies, and publishers including The
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Assaf Erez: Photos of Israel Through the Eyes of Assaf
Assaf Erez: Photos of Israel Through the Eyes of Assaf
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Steve Kramer – Israel through a Tourist’s Eyes
Steve Kramer – Israel through a Tourist’s Eyes We recently spent an enjoyable time with Michal’s classmate from ACHS (Atlantic City High School). Jimmy has a great love of Israel and a great interest in Judaism – although, or maybe because
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Backing Into the Modern World: Ultra-Orthodoxy and “Secular” Education
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Backing Into the Modern World: Ultra-Orthodoxy and “Secular” Education On the face of it, the issue of Ultra-Orthodoxy and secular education might seem to be rather esoteric. Nothing could be further from the tr
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Dori Bisk: In Israel, We Just Keep Walking
Dori Bisk: In Israel, We Just Keep Walking ‘I just hate terrorist attacks’ the thin nurse says to the older one ‘Want some gum?’ In a single sentence, legendary Etgar Keret manages to depict life in Israel. If you grew up here, or have lived here
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The Medialine: Meta Is Moving on up in Tel Aviv, Rents 20 Floors of New High-rise
The Medialine: Meta Is Moving on up in Tel Aviv, Rents 20 Floors of New High-rise The Medialine Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has rented 20 floors and 660 parking spaces in a Tel Aviv high-rise building that is still under construction. Me
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Adelson Family Sponsors Flights of 500 Ukrainian Refugees to Israel
Adelson Family Sponsors Flights of 500 Ukrainian Refugees to Israel Adelson Family Sponsors Flights for 500 Ukrainian Refugees to Israel With Operation Orange Wings, Reuniting Many With Israeli Family Members. Jerusalem – Members of the Adelson fami
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News April 6, 2022
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News April 6, 2022 Cybersecurity startup Coro secures $80 million for mid-market and SMB solution. The Israeli company’s SaaS solution helps protect the users, devices, email, and cloud applications
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TAU – The Nanodrug that Attacks the Cancer Twice
TAU – The Nanodrug that Attacks the Cancer Twice A single nanoparticle does two jobs: enhancing the effectiveness of chemotherapy and reinvigorating the immune system. Researchers from Tel Aviv University proved that a drug delivery system based on
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HonestReporting – How European Union Funding of West Bank Activities Breaches Int’l Law & Undermines Peace
HonestReporting – How European Union Funding of West Bank Activities Breaches Int’l Law & Undermines Peace By Akiva Van Koningsveld In possibly its strongest rebuke of European Union policy to date, an official report released by Israel’s Intell
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UN WATCH: UN to appoint investigator who compares Israel to Nazi Germany
UN WATCH: UN to appoint investigator who compares Israel to Nazi Germany GENEVA, March 31, 2022 — The U.N. Human Rights Council is planning to violate its own impartiality rules by appointing a new investigator on Palestinian human rights who exults in
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why are Israelis So Happy?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why are Israelis So Happy? It’s been a rough week for Israel with several terrorist attacks – similar to many such in the past. All the more reason to ask a seemingly perplexing question: why does Israel continually sco
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 3,2022
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 3, 2022 Israelis continue to “run up” many more successes in trying to make the world a better place. Israel’s life-saving field hospital in Ukraine is now up and running. There are curre
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Assaf Erez – Israel: Photos from Different Angles
Assaf Erez – Israel: Photos from Different Angles
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What Are the Palestinians Thinking? A New Survey Exposes the Harsh Reality
What Are the Palestinians Thinking? A New Survey Exposes the Harsh Reality Algemeiner News Service by Maurice Hirsch A new study conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), provides an interesting window into the thoughts
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Dov Lipman: Yad L’Olim Opens New Department for Ukrainian Arrivals to Israel
Dov Lipman: Yad L’Olim Opens New Department for Ukrainian Arrivals to Israel We had a busy month at Yad L’Olim as we launched a new department alongside our regular work. Thank you to all of you who supported the efforts to establish the Yad LR
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Steve Kramer – Whither the United States in the Middle East – and Israel?
Steve Kramer – Whither the United States in the Middle East – and Israel? In the period following WW2 the US became the undisputed leader of the Western democracies. It was challenged in its position as world leader only by the USSR, whose rul
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Jonathan Sacks z”l covenant and conversations: Not All as it Seems
Jonathan Sacks z”l covenant and conversations: Not All as it Seems Excerpt from the book of Leviticus weekly reading: from Shemini We err if we think of God as capricious, jealous, angry: a myth spread by early Christianity in an attempt to define itsel
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Mar. 30, 2022
CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Mar. 30, 2022 Cyera raises $56 million Series A for cloud data security platform. The Israeli startup, founded 10 months ago, has developed a cloud-native data security platform that aims to ins
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Prof. Ehud Gazit – the first Israeli to receive a prestigious international recognition in Chemistry
Prof. Ehud Gazit – the first Israeli to receive a prestigious international recognition in Chemistry Prof. Ehud Gazit from the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Department of Materials Science
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Covert Operations Succeed: Delivering Medicine To Jews Stuck In Ukraine & Bring Essential Papers To Others Wishing to Make Aliyah
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Good News Beyond the Arab-Israeli Negev Conference
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Good News Beyond the Arab-Israeli Negev Conference The impressive, Foreign Ministers’ Negev Conference between Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates is a very positive step but shouldn’t surprise anyone
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Fire: Holy and Unholy Shemini
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Fire: Holy and Unholy Shemini The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters – the longest prelude in the Torah – we have read of the preparations for the moment at which God would bring His Presence to rest
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CTECH: Latest Israeli technology and Innovation News Mar. 24, 2022
CTECH: Latest Israeli technology and Innovation News Mar. 24, 2022 Mind the Tech London 2022 Shlomo Kramer: “Governments will need to increase their cybersecurity budgets.” The Cato Networks CEO and former co-founder of Check Point was speaking at Cal
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UNPACKED: The Biochemist Who Helped Establish a Jewish State
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TAU: Making history: the achievements of Zionism studied in the UAE
TAU: Making history: the achievements of Zionism studied in the UAE A book by Israeli Islam researchers was published in Abu Dhabi For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli research book was published in Abu Dhabi. The UAE
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United Hatzalah Has Brought More Than 2,000 Ukrainian Refugees To Israel
United Hatzalah Has Brought More Than 2,000 Ukrainian Refugees To Israel United Hatzalah is proud to have brought to Israel more than 2,000 Ukrainian refugees as part of Operation Orange Wings. The specially chartered series of rescue flights have brought
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RAV KOOK ON WAR! Part1 & Part 2: ISRAEL MUST FIX THE WORLD
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A Message of Kindness From Moldovan Car Mechanics In Support of Ukrainian Refugees
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Victor Rosenthal – The Ambassador from Obamastan
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UNPACKED: Watch How United Hatzalah Volunteers Reach Emergencies Faster than an Ambulance
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 20, 2022
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Steve Kramer – Two Peoples, Two Problems for Israel
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Violence and the Sacred (TZAV)
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why (for God’s Sake) Is the Book of Esther in the Bible?
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A Small Miracle On Ta’anit Esther Brings A Jewish Ukrainian Refugee Home On Purim
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CTECH PURIM Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH PURIM Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News What’s in store for the markets in 2022? VCs weigh in with some predictions. With fluctuating valuations, IPOs, acqui-hiring, and rising inflation, what can investors expect in 2022
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Steve Ornstein – My Voice from the Past and Present
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While Israelis and Jews Rescue Arabs and Others in War-Torn Ukraine, Israel’s Enemies Lament the Arrival of “Settler” Refugees
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UN Watch Briefing: Neuer Clashes With UN Rights Chief Bachelet
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel’s Ukrainian Refugee Policy: Pros, Cons, and a Solution
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UNPACKED – Modern Zionism: 2000 years in the making
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Victor Rosenthal – Iran is No Less Dangerous than Russia
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 13, 2022
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra-5782
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United Hatzalah – The Humane Logistics of Humanitarian Aid
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Victor Rosenthal – Now Who’s Intolerant?
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United Hatzalah – Watch as they Help Take Care of Ukrainian Refugees
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel’s Superpower Tightrope: The Next Round Will be More Difficult
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 6, 2022
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RAV KOOK SAYS WE MUST DO IMMEDIATELY TO FIX THE WORLD: STEP 3-DEVELOP UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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Ukrainian Refugee and Bereaved Holocaust Survivor Reunited With Her Last Remaining Relatives After Being Brought To Israel
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Steve Kramer – The West is in Dire Need of Backbone
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Tel Aviv University Will Assist Ukrainian Students and Researchers
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Israel Helps Rescue 100 Jewish Orphans From Ukraine
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UN Watch Speaks Out: Russia’s War on Ukraine & Israel
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation and Technology News Feb. 28, 2022
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting Israeli Conversion: Twice Over
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting Israeli Conversion: Twice Over Israel has not one, but two “conversion” issues. The first is less known: prohibiting “conversion therapy” of homosexual-leaning individuals to “revert” to their “corr
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 27, 2022
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Israeli EMS Org. United Hatzalah Sending a Delegation to Moldova to Assist Ukrainian Refugees
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RAV KOOK ON VAYAKHEL: BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS
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Victor Rosenthal – Sun Tzu, Putin, and the Iran Deal
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EoZ: Amnesty’s Car-Crash on Israel
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