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Former CBS News producer Rosenbaum dies at 64

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Friday, 18 May 2012 06:53
The Miami Herald
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Michael Rosenbaum, an award-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, has died. He was 64.

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Sacha Baron Cohen stoned by angry mob

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Friday, 18 May 2012 03:03
Daily Express
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Comedian SACHA BARON COHEN fled for his life when he was targeted by rock-wielding protesters in Israel after angering them with his antics as camp fashionista Bruno.



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The Dictator review: The Mail's critic salutes Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic creation

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Friday, 18 May 2012 00:38
Daily Mail
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The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen's funniest film. It tells the story of a North African dictator who tortures and executes his people and is building weapons of mass destruction with which he...

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David Wild: A Chart Topping Playlist For "The Billboard Music Awards"

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:54
The Huffington Post
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I started reading Billboard well before my Bar Mitzvah, so I always enjoy being a writer for the Billboard Music Awards -- a show that's...

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Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:46
NYPost.com
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Reverential to a fault, this documentary celebrates the heroism of the only Israeli officer killed during the 1976 raid on Palestinian terrorists holding 103 hostages at the terminal of the...

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The Dictator: All hail the Dictator! Fiendishly funny, wickedly witty and, of course, terrifyingly tasteless - the Mail's critic salutes Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic creation

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:00
Daily Mail
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The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen's funniest film. It tells the story of a North African dictator who tortures and executes his people and is building weapons of mass destruction with which he...

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"They wanted to really kill me": How Sacha Baron Cohen fled for his life as angry mob tried to stone him

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:00
Daily Mirror
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Sacha outraged Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem by wearing a camp version of their traditional costume

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Peter Berg talks ‘Battleship,’ Rihanna’s toughness and the ‘Friday Night Lights’ movie

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 10:50
WashingtonPost.com
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Peter Berg, director of the stand-up-and-salute-the-flag blockbuster, “Battleship,” made some headlines this week because of a, um, candid interview he did with an Israeli reporter. So in...

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Change at Henry Art Gallery

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 10:29
The Seattle Times
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Henry Art Gallery curator Sara Krajewski has been appointed director of the Institute for the Visual Arts (INOVA) at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Krajewski...

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US envoy to Israel: US ready to strike Iran 

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:38
NYDailyNews.com
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Washington’s envoy to Israel says the U.S. has plans in place to attack Tehran if necessary to prevent it from becoming an atomic military power.

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Let the endorsement fit the venue

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:00
San Francisco Chronicle
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Noting that Mitt Romney went to Jerry Falwell 's Liberty University to reject same-sex marriage, Dan St. Paul assumes "next he will bravely go to Yeshiva University to declare his support for...

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Classy kosher on Miami Beach’s West Avenue

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 05:07
The Miami Herald
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You don’t have to keep kosher to enjoy the large portions of health-oriented food at West Avenue Café.

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The law is the law

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:10
NYDailyNews.com
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The streets of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are plastered with leaflets urging support for a rabbi who is accused of the sexual abuse of a teenage girl and attacking...

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‘Homeland’ inspiration visits

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:18
NYPost.com
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The new season of “Homeland” is filming right now in Israel and got a visit from the real-life inspiration for the spy series. Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for five...

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‘Homeland’ inspiration visits

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:18
NYPost.com
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The new season of “Homeland” is filming right now in Israel and got a visit from the real-life inspiration for the spy series. Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for five...

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Disco big fought for life 

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 15:23
NYDailyNews.com
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Felix Brinkmann, the 90-year-old Holocaust survivor beaten and strangled in his Manhattan apartment for the combination to his home safe, never cracked.

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Israeli group wins $323 million terror suit against Syria, Iran 

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 12:52
NYDailyNews.com
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An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing,...

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'Battleship’ director goes on profanity-filled tirade about Middle East politics on Israeli TV

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:19
NYPost.com
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TEL AVIV -- "Battleship" director Peter Berg had more on his mind than fictional warfare while promoting his film in an interview with an Israeli reporter earlier this month. "What the f--k is...

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'Battleship’ director goes on profanity-filled tirade about Middle East politics on Israeli TV

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:19
NYPost.com
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TEL AVIV -- "Battleship" director Peter Berg had more on his mind than fictional warfare while promoting his film in an interview with an Israeli reporter earlier this month. "What the f--k is...

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'Another Sunrise' a powerful telling of Holocaust survivor's story

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 06:51
The Seattle Times
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A review of the Music of Remembrance program on May 14, 2012 in Seattle, featuring the Jake Heggie/Gene Scheer musical drama, "Another Sunrise."

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Iran hangs Mossad agent accused of killing nuclear scientist 

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:40
NYDailyNews.com
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Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported Tuesday.

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Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust

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Monday, 14 May 2012 17:02
The Seattle Times
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Sound artist and Seattle resident Trimpin's new work, "The Gurs Zyklus," will be staged at On the Boards from May 17 through 20, 2012.

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Yiddish posters up in Williamsburg asking for cash for accused child molester angering victim’s family 

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Monday, 14 May 2012 12:35
NYDailyNews.com
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Posters promoting an upcoming fund-raiser for a rabbi charged with sexually abusing a teenage girl blanketed Jewish shopping strips in Williamsburg Monday - sparking a campaign protesting the...

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WATCH: 'Battleship' Director Goes Off On Israel

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Monday, 14 May 2012 11:56
The Huffington Post
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Peter Berg, the creator of beloved show "Friday Night Lights," recently appeared on Israeli TV to promote his new action movie "Battleship," which looks on...

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Many Patinkin Advocates Peace While Filming 'Homeland' In Israel

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Monday, 14 May 2012 07:29
The Huffington Post
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JERUSALEM — "Homeland" star Mandy Patinkin has made a small push for peace while filming episodes of the hit TV show in Israel. Israel's Channel...

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Israel agrees to deal to end Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike: official  

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:35
NYDailyNews.com
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An Egyptian official says Israel has agreed to a proposal that would end a mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli jails.

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Mandy Patinkin talks peace in Israel

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:54
The Miami Herald
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"Homeland" star Mandy Patinkin has made a small push for peace while filming episodes of the hit TV show in Israel.

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Helen Lederer: My cousin, the survivor

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 20:00
Telegraph.co.uk
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Actress Helen Lederer believed most of her family had been killed by the Nazis - until she met her father's cousin who had escaped from Auschwitz


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This weeks couple: Opposites detract

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 13:37
NYPost.com
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This week, Ben, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, chose Mollie, a 24-year-old nanny. Truth be told, we were surprised by his choice, given their backgrounds — he’s a Jewish Manhattanite, she’s a...

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You can go home

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 12:42
NYPost.com
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Craig Ferguson has long been open about his rough-and- tumble youth in his native Scotland, when he played drums in punk rock bands, performed stand-up comedy as a character called Bing Hitler and...

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Music of Remembrance stages premiere of Jake Heggie's work

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Friday, 11 May 2012 10:28
The Seattle Times
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Seattle's Music of Remembrance is marking Holocaust Remembrance Day with the world premiere of "Another Sunrise," a drama about a Holocaust survivor, by noted composer Jake Heggie on May 14.

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Albert Einstein's digital archives: Pretty smart stuff

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Friday, 11 May 2012 07:22
The Star Ledger
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Hebrew University expert will discuss the digitization project in Princeton this weekend

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Sex Scandal Sparks Vatican Investigation Into Legion Of Christ Priests

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Friday, 11 May 2012 06:15
RadarOnline.com
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By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

Allegations of sexual abuse have once again rocked the Catholic Church and forced the Vatican to launch the first known action --  against the Legion of Christ...


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Israel’s separation barrier threatens ancient  Palestinian farming practice 

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Friday, 11 May 2012 02:40
NYDailyNews.com
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One of the last Palestinian farming villages that still uses irrigation systems from Roman times says its ancient way of life is in danger as Israel prepares to lay down its West Bank separation...

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For Israel, rumblings of 1967 

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:00
NYDailyNews.com
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Krauthammer: In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered UN peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat...

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Prisoners of War (Hatufim), Sky Arts, review

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:30
Telegraph.co.uk
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Mark Monahan reviews Prisoners of War, the Israeli drama that was the inspiration for Homeland.


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First look at Bar Refaeli's spy agent film role

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:33
Telegraph.co.uk
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Israeli model Bar Refaeli plays a temptress in a new film about the real-life assassination of a Hamas operative.


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First look at Bar Refaeli's spy agent film role

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:33
Telegraph.co.uk
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Israeli model Bar Refaeli plays a temptress in a new film about the real-life assassination of a Hamas operative.


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Prisoners of War (Hatufim), Sky Arts, preview

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 20:30
Telegraph.co.uk
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The dark Israeli drama that spawned Homeland is coming to our screens. Andrew Marszal reports.


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Art, fancy food and all-girl rock bands: Welcome to Crown Heights, the Hasidic SoHo 

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 12:37
NYDailyNews.com
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Crown Heights is becoming the Hasidic SoHo. The neighborhood now has a spanking-new gallery of Jewish art with $175,000 paintings; a female rock band whose members are frum (religiously...

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Art, fancy food and all-girl rock bands: Welcome to Crown Heights, the Hasidic SoHo 

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 12:37
NYDailyNews.com
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Crown Heights is becoming the Hasidic SoHo. The neighborhood now has a spanking-new gallery of Jewish art with $175,000 paintings; a female rock band whose members are frum (religiously...

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John Travolta sexual harassment claim called into question

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 07:11
guardian.co.uk
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The Pulp Fiction star appears to have been in a different part of the country at the time of one of the alleged incidentsAn anonymous man has become the second masseur to file a sexual battery and...

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Stick-Thin Model Anja Rubik’s Hip Bone Flash Encourages ‘Starvation Tactics’

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 07:05
RadarOnline.com
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By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

The Costume Institute Met Gala is regarded as one of New York City’s most glamorous nights of the year, but sadly one guest used the occasion to flaunt her...


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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Revolting Lie That Michael Jackson Was a Nazi Sympathizer

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 03:00
The Huffington Post
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I was Michael's Rabbi for two years. During that time, we discussed every subject under the sun. Michael detested and despised anyone who would do harm to another human being; he loathed...

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The heartbreak of coulrophobia

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 22:00
San Francisco Chronicle
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Now, see, I'm not sure that this is such a good idea, despite the official blessing. Of course, the Israelis are way ahead of us in certain matters; perhaps I am just being narrow-minded. Here's...

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10 suspects linked to white supremacists busted

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 17:29
NYDailyNews.com
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Ten suspects linked to the American Front white supremacist group were planning an attack on Jews, immigrants and minorities in Central Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

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Israeli film turns focus on Hamas leader's murder

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 04:43
CNN
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A tall and beguiling blonde sits alone at the bar of a luxury Middle Eastern hotel. Looking across the lobby she seductively eyes a mustached Arab man. Emboldened by her enticing glances he...

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Free and Cheap in NYC for Tuesday, May 8

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Monday, 07 May 2012 21:00
NYDailyNews.com
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SHALOM SWINGIN’. See the Alon Yavnai big band perform as part of “Jazzr ael,” a festival of Israeli jazz and world music. Pianist and composer...

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Dunham talks race

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Monday, 07 May 2012 14:02
NYPost.com
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After weeks of controversy over the lack of racial diversity on the HBO series “Girls,” creator Lena Dunham is finally ready to join the conversation. “I am a half-Jew, half-WASP, and I...

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Dunham talks race

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Monday, 07 May 2012 14:02
NYPost.com
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After weeks of controversy over the lack of racial diversity on the HBO series “Girls,” creator Lena Dunham is finally ready to join the conversation. “I am a half-Jew, half-WASP, and I...

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