Facebook to File IPO Next Week, Valuation Close to $75 Billion

Facebook to File IPO Next Week, Valuation Close to $75 Billion

WSJ – Facebook Inc. could file papers for its initial...

U.S., Israel Missile Defense Drill Set for October With American Troops to Israel Next Week

U.S., Israel Missile Defense Drill Set for October With American Troops to Israel Next Week

The largest missile defense exercise ever undertaken between...

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  • Israel Sports Top Israeli Soccer Team Comes From Unlikely Place in Kiryat Shmona

    Top Israeli Soccer Team Comes From Unlikely Place in Kiryat Shmona

    NY Times – KIRYAT SHMONA – This city is one of Israel’s smallest, a hardscrabble place with a population of 23,000 that is less than two miles from the Lebanese border and through the decades has repeatedly found itself caught in the crossfire of Arab-Israeli strife. In 1974, Kiryat Shmona was the scene of a terrorist attack in which 18 Israelis, many of them children, were killed. Rockets have clobbered the town during cross-border fighting. Underground shelters are as familiar [...]

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  • Music Spirituality/Tradition 25 Years of Shlock Rock – Jewish Rock n’ Roll

    25 Years of Shlock Rock – Jewish Rock n’ Roll

    JTA – Before the Maccabeats created a sensation on YouTube with their Chanukah song, and before the scores of individuals recorded Jewish parodies on video, and before Jewish outreach organizations used popular music to connect with unaffiliated Jews, there was Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock. For 25 years the Jewish rock band has been teaching Jewish ideas through music using song parodies, original music in English and Hebrew, and children’s songs. Read full story.

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  • Spirituality/Tradition Theater Dominicans and Jews Dance Together in Upper Manhattan

    Dominicans and Jews Dance Together in Upper Manhattan

    The Jewish Week – Four years ago, Victoria Neznansky was faced with a difficult task. She was the newly hired chief program officer at the YM & YWHA in Washington Heights, which serves a predominantly Dominican community. And it was her responsibility to find a way to attract families from the area’s Jewish population, which had been dwindling for decades — all without alienating the dominant population. “They live together but they rarely interact,” Neznansky said of the Dominican and [...]

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  • Arts and Culture World Oscars Bring Israelis and Iranians Together Through Nominations

    Oscars Bring Israelis and Iranians Together Through Nominations

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it’s Oscar nominations on Tuesday.  The Israeli film, “Footnote”, has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, along with 4 other films, including Iran’s “A Separation”. “Footnote”, which won for Best Screen at the Cannes Film Festival, follows a father and son who both study Talmud at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  “A Separation” also ecompasses a family theme, with a Tehran based husband and wife struggling through the decision to move [...]

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  • Arts and Culture Music Personalities Shalom Haters: Interview with Israeli/North African MC SHI 360

    Shalom Haters: Interview with Israeli/North African MC SHI 360

    Israeli/North African MC SHI 360 releases “Shalom Haters” video which received over 30,000 unique views in one week and debuted on Vibe Magazine’s All Hip Hop site. This Platinum artist from Israel, has toured all over the world with acts from Subliminal to Killah Priest. The video shares a title with SHI 360′s full length break out English record, ‘Shalom Haters’ which hit stores world-wide today on Shemspeed/360 Music Records. SHI 360 sat down with Shemspeed’s Sarah Weiss late last [...]

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  • Beliefs and concepts Personal Our Attraction To Drama, Alcohol & Other Distractions

    Our Attraction To Drama, Alcohol & Other Distractions

    The Choice to Become Absent “Drama” seems to be on an all-time high. Our blinding attraction to it has captivated the heart of our times. We love to live it, watch it, or even worse, create it. Nowadays, it appears as if everyone has a “dramatic” story about their next-door neighbor, estranged friend, or rude relative. According to a recent survey, almost half of our nation’s younger generation watches more reality television than last year. 18 to 25 year-olds watch [...]

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  • Education iPads Used for Education at Day Schools

    iPads Used for Education at Day Schools

    JTA - Toward the end of his life, Apple’s visionary leader, Steve Jobs, was visited by another computer innovator, Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The conversation turned to the future of education. As related in Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of Jobs, both men agreed that computers had made surprisingly little impact on schools. “Computers and mobile devices would have to focus on delivering more personalized lessons and providing motivational feedback,” Gates said. One of the many projects Jobs had hoped to develop before [...]

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  • Sports Colts Fire Head Coach Jim Caldwell

    Colts Fire Head Coach Jim Caldwell

    ESPN – The Indianapolis Colts fired coach Jim Caldwell on Tuesday, the team announced. The Colts hired Ryan Grigson as their new general manager last week and the team said they would have a decision on Caldwell’s future by the middle of this week. Franchise quarterback Peyton Manning missed the entire season after having his latest neck surgery Sept. 8 — a procedure that has clouded his future in Indianapolis. Without him, the Colts collapsed, missing the playoffs for the [...]

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