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Consider this: Shimon Peres (current President of Israel) entered the Knesset in 1959 - that is nearly 5 decades - and despite his Oslo disaster - he remains in power. To put this in perspective, Eisenhower was President of the United States in the year Peres entered office - even more recent politicians, Barak or Olmert are just recycled into new parties or new coalitions, despite pushing forth near-suicidal policies for the modern state of Israel. This "message" video was put out by the...
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USHPIZIN (Complete in Hebrew - Part 1 of 2 - runtime 46:53) - A Warmhearted, Upbeat Fable in an Exotic Setting - the award-winning Ushpizin (2004) is a pleasant little film that takes place in an ultra-Orthodox community in modern-day Jerusalem, but its message is universal. The dialogue is in Hebrew, and the DVD provides English and Spanish subtitles. The story is about the clash between the religious and the secular, but what I like best about the movie is its humanism. The central...
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USHPIZIN (Complete in Hebrew - Part 2 of 2 - runtime 45:37) - A Warmhearted, Upbeat Fable in an Exotic Setting - the award-winning Ushpizin (2004) is a pleasant little film that takes place in an ultra-Orthodox community in modern-day Jerusalem, but its message is universal. The dialogue is in Hebrew, and the DVD provides English and Spanish subtitles. The story is about the clash between the religious and the secular, but what I like best about the movie is its humanism. The central...
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Leontina Arditi's film of growing up in a poor Sephardic familiy in Sofia takes us inside a world now lost to us. By sharing with us her family pictures, and the stories that go with them, Leontina brings her impoverished -- but not unhappy --- childhood to life. Here in one of Sofia's poorest quarters, we meet Jews and non-Jews, parents and boyfriends. For those who have wondered why Bulgarians have long been considered to be less anti-Semitic than their neighbors, Leontina gives us her...
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Barack Obama, the Democratic party's nominee for U.S. President, retracted the statement he made at the AIPAC Convention in June, about the need for Jerusalem to remain Israel's undivided capital. Obama had already qualified the statement the day after he made it, but in a new CNN interview he effectively retracted it, blaming "poor phrasing" and careless syntax. Interviewer Fareed Zakaria asked: "One area where you're outside the international consensus -- and certainly, perhaps, some others...
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