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Opinion . Tradition . THE KID EVERY A2. AMERICAN SHOULD LISTEN TO ETERNITY AND MORALITY A9. TOP 10 TOUGHEST JEWS ON SCREEN A8 algemeiner THE JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 19 Iyar 5772 VOL. XXXIX NO. 2059 1.00 PRINTED IN NEW YORK Israel Elections Cancelled, Likud Forms Unity Government with Kadima Russian Jewish Leader Putin is the Reason Iran Does Not Have a Nuclear Weapon BY ZACHARY LICHAA As the news broke earlier this week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a ne

A2 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Opinion . starter campaign to raise funds that will allow for the publication of his memoir. As of the time of this writing, he has raised 2939 out of 30,000, from 61 different backers, and he has 36 days to go. On Facebook, his story has been spreading like wildfire. I have pledged my support and would encourage all to do the same I believe that his voice deserves to be heard for the following reasons Firstly, it is only once in a rare while that the story of one man

www.algemeiner.com World News . FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 A3 Hitchhiking Becomes a Senior Hamas Official Palestinians Dont Come NoNo for Israeli Soldiers from Palestine BY ARYEH SAVIR TAZPIT NEWS AGENCY Hamas Minister of Interior and National Security, Fathi Hammad recently said that Palestinians actually came from Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. In an interview he gave to AlHekma TV, an Egyptian network, he discussed the necessity of ArabMuslim solidarity and the support the Gazans need from t

A4 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 World News . High Expectations for Israeli Windsurfer at London Olympics BY JOINTMEDIA NEWS SERVICE Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits, 28, will compete in this years London Summer Olympic Games. If she reaches the podium, she will be the third Israeli to win a medal in windsurfing and the first Israeli woman to stand on the Olympic podium since Yael Arad won the first such medal in Judo at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. I go to London like a favorite and I train r

www.algemeiner.com World News U.S News .. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 A5 U.S. House Sets Record 947 Million for Israeli Missile Defense BY ALGEMEINER STAFF The U.S. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee has appropriated nearly 1 billion for Israels multilayer missile defense systems, including the Arrow system and the state of the art Israel the ability to protect its civilians while giving its leaders the strategic space and time to take the appropriate action to root out terrorists and car

A6 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Opinion . Israeli Needs Consensus in Response to Apocalyptic Event Threatening its Survival ED KOCH N E W YO R K The issue of how to deal with the threat of Iran manufacturing a nuclear bomb is a matter affecting Israels very existence and, therefore, a first priority for the leaders of the Jewish state. In deciding Israels approach to this issue, and in particular, whether Israel has the military capability to eliminate the Iranian program and should do so, Prime M

www.algemeiner.com Opinion . FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 A7 KadimaLikud Unity Why are AntiIsrael Government As Much Groups Marching in New About Domestic Politics Yorks Israel Parade As Iran wartime government, which was quickly assembled in 1967 just days before the outbreak of hostilities in the SixDay War. EZZY RAPPAPORT But Iran is not the only issue on the mind N E W YO R K of the Israeli electorate or of Israels critics. The seemingly never ending peace process with the Palestinians has be

A8 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Impressions . Approximately half of todays primary schoolage children in Israel come from either the Israeli Arab or ultraOrthodox haredi sectors of the population, comprising 28 and 20 percent of the primary school student population, respectively, according to findings presented to the students by Executive Director Prof. Dan BenDavid of the nonpartisan Taub Center think tank. BenDavid displayed international comparative academic performance test scores for Israeli

www.algemeiner.com FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 A9 Tradition. Legal Notice Yet if God was completely and permanently hidden from the physical world, it would be as if He were absent. From a human perspective there would be no difference between an unknowable God and a nonexistent God. Therefore God established the holy as the point at which the Eternal enters time and the Infinite enters space. Holy time is Shabbat. Holy space was the Tabernacle, and later, the Temple. Gods eternity stands in the

A10 FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Tradition . Eternity is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different than the ephemeral, just as infinity is qualitatively equadistant from the number one as it is from a trillion. We may not know much about the Divine, but one thing it is not is human that is, human as we define the term. The divine is a source of constant energy flowing from the Essence of it all. It is dynamic and alive, and always open to change. By stating that the human being is made in the Div

www.algemeiner.com Social . FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 A11 Jewish GloveMaker Repairs Queens Gloves BY ALGEMEINER STAFF Britains Queen Elizabeth II is known for her particular choices when it comes to picking royal clothiers and her selection of glovemaker is no different. Cornelia James, founded by then Cornelia Lawson, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe has been supplying the Queen since 1947. The East Sussex based family company is now run by her daughter Genevieve Lawson, who recently reveale

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