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1. Smartphone apps for the foodie
(Life/Style)

... of foods, cooking terms and even measurements. Two favorite recipe/meal planning websites are Epicurious and MyRecipes. If you find yourself in the supermarket staring at sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) ...

2. Chanukah battle for freedom of religion continues
(Life/Style)

Festival of Lights highlights issues of church and state BY JEANETTE FRIEDMAN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem thousands of years ago, after ...

3. Assemblyman Reed Gusciora blasts decision to bury Petty's Run archeological site
(N.J./State)

... items like utensils and living accessories. The site was uncovered in 2008 and 2009. "If you visit Jerusalem, Israel or Rome today, you can explore such exposed ruins as history trails and learn first ...

4. Lawrence Wright balances ‘The Human Scale’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... screens are employed to display a mix of still and video images documenting Wright's text. Some of the visuals are terribly graphic — the slaughter caused by a suicide bomber in a Jerusalem restaurant, ...

5. Iran: A train wreck in the making
(Opinion/Commentary)

... capable of successfully completing two nuclear warheads plus missiles capable of reaching Israel. One nuclear weapon is intended to be put on a missile aimed at Tel Aviv and the other for Jerusalem. Their ...

6. Obama and Netanyahu on same page in meeting
(World/International)

... which, despite its small size, accounts for as much as 40 percent of all campaign contributions to the party. The contretemps in March — which began when Jerusalem's municipal authorities announced a ...

7. Hamas rejects Israeli offer of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit
(World/International)

BY ROBERT BERGER VOA NEWS JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants have rejected a new Israeli offer for a prisoner exchange. The Islamic militant group Hamas has declined Israel's latest offer for a lopsided ...

8. European Union considering research aid to Israeli military
(World/International)

... illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem with the city centre. Mark English, a Commission spokesman, said that the procedures relating to the projects have not yet been completed. But the Israeli ...

9. A conversation with retired William Paterson University history professor Joseph Brandes
(Life/Style)

... Jewish community since the fall of Jerusalem." These communes eventually vanished — the farmers could make better livings in cities – but their innovations, Brandes pointed out, influenced some of ...

10. Israel facing harsh criticism over raid on Gaza aid flotilla
(World/International)

... has shot itself yet again in the foot. This was a disastrous operation with so many killed and wounded in international waters. It was totally unjustifiable," says Prof. Moshe Maoz from Jerusalem's Hebrew ...

11. Israeli navy commandos storm civilian flotilla heading to Gaza
(World/International)

... officials vowing to stop the vessels and the FG vowing to reach Gaza, the Israeli foreign ministry and the IDF launched a massive publicity campaign. The Israeli daily ‘The Jerusalem Post' reported that ...

12. Israeli ‘Settlements’: A New Jersey story
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of Efrat. Efrat is one of a group of settlements comprising the Etzion bloc (in Hebrew, Gush Etzion), located south of Jerusalem in the region of the Judean hills. In the modern era of Jewish return ...

13. Anti-semitism: Why it just won’t go away
(Life/Style)

... Brussels, and Jerusalem bringing together foreign ministers, leaders of nongovernmental organizations, and others to work toward a common goal of countering anti-Semitism. What does that do? For one, it ...

14. Barack Obama considering a plan to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict
(World/International)

BY JIM LOBE IPS NEW AGENCY WASHINGTON — Amid still-unresolved tensions over Jewish settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, two major publications reported Wednesday that President Barack Obama is seriously ...

15. Israelis seeing a dramatic change in U.S. policy
(World/International)

BY JERROLD KESSEL AND PIERRE KLOCHENDLER ANALYSIS JERUSALEM — Against all expectations, it's becoming the forerunner of a peace plan. Indeed, it might in the end even surprise the world as Israelis ...

16. Israeli-Palestinian tensions rise over East Jerusalem
(World/International)

... spread across East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and into Israel proper. The worst violence in several years, something of a mini Intifadah or uprising, followed the Islamist movement Hamas calling ...

17. Petraeus says Israeli-Palestinian tension causing anti-American sentiment
(World/International)

... Axelrod, among others, over the weekend. They called Israel's announcement that it planned to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem - which is still considered occupied territory by the ...

18. Biological breakthrough: Princeton scientists find new mechanism to regulate embryonic development
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... for Medical Research Israel-Canada at Hebrew University in Jerusalem used a series of experimental techniques to verify that their proposed protein could bind to the enzyme, an ability that was previously ...

19. Voyeuristic ‘Venus in Fur’ seduces viewers with laughter
(Entertainment/Movies)

... up with considerable craft and smarts by the gifted David Ives, whose works have ranged from that wacky "All in the Timing" to the serious "New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza," this ...

20. Israel buying East Jerusalem land causing tension among Greek Orthodox Palestinians
(World/International)

BY MEL FRYKBERG IPS NEWS AGENCY RAMALLAH — Israel's bid to keep occupied East Jerusalem under its sovereignty and prevent its incorporation into a future Palestinian state has been boosted over the ...