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Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 3:11 PM  | Stand For Israel

Netanyahu’s son wins Jerusalem Bible quiz

One of Prime Minister Netanyahu's sons beat out 50 other teenagers to win the Jerusalem region Bible quiz. Avner Netanyahu, 15, will represent the city at the Israeli national competition, where he will compete to represent the Jewish state at this year's International Bible Quiz, an annual worldwide contest on knowledge of the Hebrew Bible.


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Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 1:26 PM  | Stand For Israel

UN head’s reaction to report pleases Israel

Israel reacted positively to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's response to a report submitted earlier this week that accounts for the IDF's actions during last year's Gaza War, the Jerusalem Post reports.


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Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 9:36 AM  | Stand For Israel

Hip mainstream finally getting hip to Hamas’ true colors?

In recent years, media analysts and social commentators haven't known precisely what to make of the fact that a larger percentage of Americans rely on a comedy program--Jon Stewart's Daily Show--to get news than any other outlet. For supporters of the Jewish state, this has been particularly


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Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 3:33 PM  | Stand For Israel

Rabbi’s Message: Anti-Semitism lingers, even in the West

In some countries, anti-Semitic intimidation and violence are daily facts of life for Jews. Often, these are countries ruled by radical Muslim regimes hostile not just to Israel, but to the Jewish people as a whole. In the West, we like to tell ourselves that public anti-Semitism is a thing of the past. And, indeed, it's true that Jews throughout the Western world enjoy freedom of religion and freedom from


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Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 12:15 PM  | Stand For Israel

The persistence of anti-Zionism in the PCUSA

More anti-Israel initiatives ... coming to a Presbyterian Church (USA) church near you?


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Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 10:06 AM  | Stand For Israel

Egyptian journalists union punishes writers for ties to Israelis

Here's a story that says a lot about freedom of the press -- or the lack thereof -- in the Arab world: Two editors in Egypt have been punished for their contacts with Israel.


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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 3:38 PM  | Stand For Israel

$7.5 billion more of natural gas found off Israel’s shore

A huge natural gas find in the Mediterranean Sea.


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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 3:06 PM  | Stand For Israel

The unknown airlift

Lovers of Israel usually know about the daring airlifts that brought tens of thousands of Jews home to Israel from Arab countries, often in secret and in the dark of night. Lesser known is another daring airlift brought home natives to Israel, but these weren't Jews -- they were fallow deer.


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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 PM  | Stand For Israel

Israeli supermodel puts career on hold–for the IDF

Esti Ginzburg may have started modeling at the age of 8 and signed a contract with the prestigious agency Elite Models at the tender age of 14, but she doesn't think that being an
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