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Article summary: "About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an action they view as a desecration of the sanctity of the holy city." Hard to imagine a more vivid metaphor fo the clash of "old" versus "new" sensibilities (though putting it that way suggests that haredism is "old," when actually it's pretty modern).

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In Israel, controversy over a bill banning (for humane reasons) the importation of broad classes of "fur and textile products made out of the hair of dogs, cats or rabbits." Haredim fear that this will hurt the market for shtreimel (traditional fur-trimmed hats worn by some ultra-Orthodox groups). Eliezer Moses of United Torah Judaism commented: "We are not in the Middle Ages, when wearing pronounced Jewish symbols was prohibited, and I call on Tirosh and the Ministerial Committee to grant my request and amend the bill accordingly [to allow an exception for imports with religious purposes]."

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On Messianic Jewish Zionists and their role in the IDF.

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From the article: "The event, which will include a large contingent of evangelical leaders, including the president of CBN Michael Little as well as the US director of the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy, Susan Michael, will include a keynote address by Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev. 'The Christian communities and their representatives are the real allies that we can rely on in the US and around the world,' Elon said Sunday. 'I hope that the new leadership in Israel will understand this reality better than the last administration and recognize how to translate this support into action.' The former tourism minister and previous caucus chairman, who is taking a break from politics, was a leading force in furthering Israel's ties with the evangelical Christian world."

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Al Jazeera's coverage of the situation in Gaza as of early Friday (1/9) morning.

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The CBC's coverage of the situation in Gaza, as of early Friday evening, Jan. 9, 2009.

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This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace and justice for Palestinians, a strong and unapologetic sense of Israel's Jewish, Zionist, and historical distrinctiveness, and a genuinely poetic sensibility. His son Uri, a tank commander, was killed in the summer-before-last's fighting in Lebanon. Themes of the interview overlap strikingly with Appleby's work, I think.

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A Palestinian student blogger observes that the factional violence in the Palestinian territory is all the more absurd because the PA itself has zero power. Not surprisingly, she blames Israel and the U.S. for building up Fatah's military power and thus f

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An interesting polling result from OpenBethlehem.org. They find that Americans have enormous misconceptions about Bethlehem's history, demographics, and even location; while Christian Bethlehemites, who are mostly Palestinians, see Israel as systematicall

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