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TODAY: Friday, July 30, 2010
 
Eye on Europe
By Joshua Freedman

French Graves Vandalised...

 

Graves have been desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in northeastern France, in the latest such attack in the region. Police said 27 tombstones were overturned, damaged and sprayed with anti-Semitic slogans between Sunday and Wednesday morning in Wolfisheim, a village not far from Strasbourg. A similar attack nearby in January coincided with the commemoration of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, while Muslims tombs were vandalised in the locality earlier in the summer. Local Jewish representatives said: “The perpetrators ...

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In Your Dreams: The Kabbalah of Inception
By Simcha Weinstein

It turns out that my mundane reality of morning school runs and chai tea lattes on the way to the office may not be as real as I thought, at least according to a new hit movie.

 

Directed by Hollywood hotshot Christopher Nolan (of The Dark Knight fame), the movie Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and turns out to be that rarest of things: a big screen blockbuster with brains.

 

This complex, visually innovative science fiction/ heist film explores the phenomenon of lucid dreaming. We’ve probably all experienced uncanny moments of ...

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Time Magazine’s Bizarre Assault on Large Families
By Shmuley Boteach

Not sure whether Americans are becoming more materialistic and self-absorbed? Look no further than Time Magazine’s recent carnival of narcissism and celebration of selfishness.

 

In a bizarre cover story entitled, “The Only Child: Debunking the Myths,” Lauren Sandler writes in personal terms of her and her husband’s decision to have only one child. G-d bless them. It’s a free country. Have however many children you wish or don’t wish. But Sandler is an evangelist with thinly disguised contempt for parents silly enough to ruin their finances – not to mention their lives – by being burdened by more than one offspring. Her ...

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