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Women take heart from visit to Israel
Pikesville resident Debra Attman is well known as a local philanthropist, providing the driving energy behind several events, including the Chocolate Affair, the annual event benefiting Health Care for the Homeless. But it was her work with The...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Israel, Judaism, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Immigration
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Scrabble at the Bain Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Israel, Government Health Care, No Age (music group), Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Netanyahu's choices
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, he faces a series of Middle East challenges far more daunting than when he began his presidency in 2009. These problems include: •what to do about the Arab-Israeli conflict, with peace talks between...
Tags: North Africa, Israel, Iran, Barack Obama, Peace Negotiations
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Egypt's Morsi is Hamas' new best friend
The chameleon is finally showing his true colors. Since taking office in June, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's not-so-new president, has been equivocating, trying to balance Egypt's longstanding diplomatic and financial relationship with the West with his true...
Tags: Islam, Israel, Hamas, Egypt, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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U.S. must recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
At first glance, Jerusalem appears to be the quintessential capital city: The sprawling, modern metropolis is home to Israel'sparliament, the Knesset, and courts, ministry buildings, monuments and museums dot the surrounding area. Lining the main...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Israel, Judaism, Barack Obama, Hamas
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Ex-vice president of Iraq captured, turned over to U.S.
Associated PressBAGHDAD, Iraq - Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi vice president known as "Saddam's knuckles" for his ruthlessness against regime enemies, was captured by Kurdish fighters Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and turned over to U.S. forces....Tags: Islam, Israel, Saddam Hussein, Holidays, George W. Bush
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Israel approves barrier, pullout
Los Angeles TimesJERUSALEM - In decisions apparently aimed at shaping future Israeli-Palestinian borders, Israel's Cabinet approved yesterday the removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank and decided that the separation barrier should...Tags: Israel, Judaism, Referenda, Peace Negotiations, George W. Bush
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Deep rifts remain on basics of 'road map'
Sun Foreign StaffAQABA, Jordan - The day before Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet here with President Bush to launch an ambitious peace initiative called the road map, the two sides remain deeply divided over fundamental issues. State Department representatives have...Tags: Terrorism, Israel, George W. Bush, Refugee, Government
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BRIEF: Municipal rates to be doubled on empty apartments
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelMinister of the Interior Gideon Saar today told the cabinet that he has signed regulations to double arnona (local property tax) on empty apartments, and that he has sent the regulations to Minister of Finance Yair Lapid to complete the regulatory...Tags: Israel, Rentals, Tel Aviv (Israel)
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Globes, Tel Aviv, Israel, Stella Korin-Lieber column
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelYair Lapid presents: the no-choice budget. Not what he intended. Not what he planned. But that's what there is. There has to be a budget, there have to be cuts, and they have to pass on time. If not, the government falls, and the government doesn't want...Tags: Israel, Budgets and Budgeting, Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance, Tel Aviv (Israel)
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Status quo
Meet Omer Olivier. Mr. Olivier is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Israel for the last seventeen years without official status. Although he has filed a request to be recognized as a refugee, his lack of...Tags: Migration, Israel, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Refugee, Human Rights
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Obama speechwriter shapes policy with his pen
WASHINGTON -- One of Ben Rhodes’ first tasks when he followed Barack Obama to the White House in 2009 was to help craft the presidential speech, delivered in Cairo, that urged a restart of Mideast peace talks, called America’s alliance with...
Tags: Social Media, Israel, Arab Spring, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
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