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Recipes for a sweet New Year

Rosh Hashanah recipes comprised of the sweetest ingredients. Tradition with a twist. by Jamie Geller I love honey. I don’t claim to know exactly what the Sages had in mind when they said that during this season we should avoid tart or bitter foods and slop honey on everything, but my guess is that we’re supposed to look for the sweetness in life and try to make ourselves a little sweeter too. You are what you eat. In any case, a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah, my head starts to twirl with holiday recipes comprised of the sweetest ingredients –…

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U.S. life ‘unsustainable’ after EMP

by F. Michael Maloof Member warns worst case 'so bad we must prevent it at all costs' WASHINGTON – Congress today was told that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t identified an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event as a serious national security threat to the nation’s grid system even though testimony revealed it could making living in the United States “unsustainable” for 70 to 90 percent of the population. And the few billion dollars it would cost to harden systems against such an occurrence is hardly the tens of billions or hundreds of billions it could cost to repair the…

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Bringing Morocco’s sacred music to Jerusalem

Bringing Morocco’s sacred music to Jerusalem

By Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency Photo: Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency / Description: International Gnawan musical artist Hassan Hakmoun in Jerusalem's Tower of David. The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival recently brought a new tradition to the holy city. For 24 consecutive hours, artists and musicians from Israel and abroad, shared a variety of musical traditions last Thursday, September 6, through the wee hours of the next morning. Centered at Jerusalem’s Tower of David, the festival venues were chosen to reflect a message of inter-faith unity and sanctity at historical venues reflective of Jerusalem’s diverse faiths. Musical events and shows…

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From fighter pilot to gold medalist

Israeli Pride at the London Paralympics Games 2012 By Aryeh Savur Tazpit News Agency Noam Greshuny’s story is one of triumph of the spirit. Six year after being critically wounded during the Second Lebanon War, Gershuny won a gold medal at the Paralympics Games in London playing tennis. He beat the number one ranking player, the American David Wagner 6:3, 6:1. When he ascended the podium to receive the medal and heard the Tikvah playing in the background he was overcome by his emotions, shedding a tear. During the second week of the Second Lebanon War, on July 20th, two…

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Record-breaking distance of 143 kilometers through free space

Record-breaking distance of 143 kilometers through free space

An international research team including several scientists from the University of Waterloo has achieved quantum teleportation over a record-breaking distance of 143 kilometres through free space. The experiment saw the successful teleportation of quantum information

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Jews one of Germany’s most prominent rabbis has been charged after publicly vowing to continue to perform circumcisions

Jews one of Germany’s most prominent rabbis has been charged after publicly vowing to continue to perform circumcisions

By Raphael Ahren Charges filed against prominent Berlin rabbi for vowing to continue circumcisionsAfter appearance on popular TV show, Yitshak Ehrenberg becomes the second German rabbi to be charged for defying controversial Cologne ruling Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg on the Anne Will show in July. (screenshot, via YouTube) The office of Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg, who has been serving the Berlin Jewish community since 1997, on Wednesday confirmed in an email that criminal charges had been filed against him. Ehrenberg has received a letter from the prosecutor’s office because of comments he made on a nationwide broadcast television show, an aide confirmed.…

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“Smart” students ID locator

NISD Student Locator Program .Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose “smart” ID card. Parents entrust us with their children and expect that we always know where their children are; this technology will help us do that. THE PILOT The Student Locator Project is currently being piloted at two schools. They are Jay High School and Jones Middle School, two of 112 schools in Northside ISD. The pilot will last one year after which time the…

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Australia warns America: Don’t let them take your guns!

Australia warns America: Don’t let them take your guns!

Government officials and citizens in Australia speak out to warn America “Don’t Let Them Take Your Guns!” According to reports when the Gun Ban went into effect in Australia the crime rate spiraled out of control. The police officers are overwhelmed and are unable to protect the citizens due to so much crime. When the forced gun ban (buy back program) went into effect law abiding citizens had to turn in their semi automatic firearms, pump action rifles, and shotguns or face going to jail. Six hundred forty thousand conventional firearms were taken out of the hands of law abiding…

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Muslim Brothers plotting overthrow of Gulf states

Muslim Brothers plotting overthrow of Gulf states

The comments by Dahi Khalfan, one of the most outspoken security officials in the United Arab Emirates, follow the detention in the UAE since April of at least 20 dissidents, according to relatives of the detainees and activists. "There's an international plot against Gulf states in particular and Arab countries in general...This is preplanned to take over our fortunes," Khalfan told reporters at a gathering late on Wednesday marking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. "The bigger our sovereign wealth funds and the more money we put in the banks of Western countries, the bigger the plot to take over…

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Liberty against equality

Liberty against equality

by Judson Phillips Liberty has been competing against equality for about 250 years. In the 18th century, both burst onto the political scene. Liberty gave birth to the greatest, freest nation this world has ever seen and equality gave birth to the first modern genocide. Now we are facing another battle. One group has taken up the mantle of equality. Given how badly things end up every time the cause of “equality” is taken, should we be very afraid? The latest group to take up the banner of equality are the liberals who are screaming for “marriage equality.” They have…

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