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Uriel Heilman

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Member since:
10/16/2008
Last Logged In:
07/09/2009

Conservatives soften on intermarriage

The battle among the Conservative Jewish establishment to convert the spouses of intermarried Jews is over, reports Stewart Ain in the New York Jewish Week: Read more »

Road warriors

Vandals in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel are defacing road signs to remove Arabic from the trilingual signs. Now, a group of vigilantes are fighting back.  Read more »

Lod’s hidden treasure

Can the Israeli city of Lod, a mixed Jewish-Arab city near Tel Aviv that is struggling economically, be revitalized by a 1,700-year old mosaic? Read more »

Trading outposts for large settlement blocs

If Benjamin Netanyahu insists on keeping illegal settlement outposts, he will be defending lawlessness and harming Israel’s interests, writesHa’aretz columnist Ari Shavit. And if Obama refuses to recognize that large settlement blocs near the Green Line will become part of Israel, he will be destroying President Clinton’s legacy. But if Obama and Netanyahu formulate an outposts-for-blocs policy, they will be serving their countries’ interests, as well as promoting a realistic peace process. Read more »

Documenting, and fighting, settlement growth

In this seven-minute video report by Israel’s Channel 2, Peace Now members debate one settler about construction projects in the West Bank and encounter a violent attack by another as they try to film. Read more »

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