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Daybreak: Converting China

Plus Dubai cause-of-death, Snooki’s glassy Purim, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 9:00 AM Mar 1, 2010

• An Israeli delegation showed Chinese officials extensive intelligence on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. China is the final veto-possessing holdout when it comes to further Security Council sanctions. [Haaretz]
• Israel’s plans to landmark two Biblical sites in the West Bank led to further skirmishes, as well as the Israeli police entering al-Aqsa mosque in the ...

Daybreak: Abraham’s Children Squabble

Plus ‘Schindler’ lands ice dancers in 10th, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 9:00 AM Feb 23, 2010

• Skirmishes followed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s announcement that he will designate Abraham’s and Rachel’s burial places, which are in Israel-controlled West Bank, as national heritage sites. [NYT]
• U.S. Adm. Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that no military strike could completely halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program. [Haaretz]
• Foreign Minister ...

Books

Homeward Bound

How Naomi Frankel’s life and work mirrored modern Jewish history
By Liel Leibovitz | 7:03 AM Nov 25, 2009

Jewish folklore attributes a certain otherworldly aura to those who die on their birthdays, as if by entering and exiting the world on the same day one’s life acquires a hidden meaning or secret grace. Last Friday, on her 91st birthday, the Israeli author Naomi Frankel passed away. She was largely forgotten; few, if any, ...

Tale of Two Cities

For groups with wildly different ideas about what it means to be a Jew in Israel, Hebron is a battleground
By Daniella Cheslow | 1:01 PM Oct 10, 2008

On a Wednesday in early August, Mikhael Manekin and Yehuda Shaul lead a group of twenty-two visitors through the West Bank city of Hebron. Manekin is collected, friendly, and compact in a University of Maryland tee shirt; Shaul speaks angrily, breathes heavily, and his large frame seems about to burst out of his button-down shirt. ...