(MENN / Weekly Blitz) As the waitress whose family had come from Ethiopia put the pizza on the table at the Tel Aviv restaurant, I contemplated the ridiculous misuse of “race” as a factor in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Regardless of skin color, the waitress and I belong not only to the same country by way
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The current explosive situation in Lebanon is sad, unfortunate and very dangerous. Meanwhile, the Lebanese people are marginalized and exposed to all kinds of terrorism, oppression, poverty, persecution, foreign interferences and fear. The Lebanese government is just a shadow and a fancy tag with no actual content, backbone or teeth. It holds no power or
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I started publishing this newspaper in July of 1997 and, for the first time since I began taking on this task and this privilege, I can say that I am truly worried about the future of the nation of Israel. Never before have I seen so many lost, wandering and disconnected citizens. Perhaps the youth
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To the Editor: Baseless search warrants for “drugs” of clean citizens can be arranged by “undisclosed” parties within Israel’s security network. Such baseless searches will never find drugs but will inevitably try to find some illegal item on which to open a file and bring an indictment on the targeted individual. In any case, the
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Welcome to the new website of Your Jerusalem. We have vastly upgraded our infrastructure and hope that you, our reader, will enjoy the difference. Please bear with us patiently as we expand our current site. After a hiatus of 7 years, 2 months, 7 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes, I am proud to announce
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