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Israel’s Beresheet Hotel, luxury at the crater’s edge

Hours from the bustle of central Israel, a distinctive hotel is offering a desert refuge from the tourist hordes alongside the standard amenities of a luxury getaway.

Game over, Chuck Norris just endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu

The race is over, ladies and gentlemen. Only five days before the elections in Israel, Chuck Norris, the Texas Ranger, the man, and the jokes, just endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a new video. The new video, produced by Johnny Daniels, a Jewish public relations and strategic advisor who uploaded Donald Trump‘s endorment a […]

‘Dear Abby’ columnist Pauline Phillips dies at 94

NEW YORK (JTA) — Pauline Phillips, the woman known to the world as the advice columnist behind “Dear Abby,” has died. Phillips, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, died Wednesday at 94 after years of battling Alzheimer’s disease, according to news reports. Writing under the pseudonym Abigail van Buren, Phillips’ “Dear Abby” was syndicated in […]

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Israel’s Beresheet Hotel, luxury at the crater’s edge

Game over, Chuck Norris just endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu

‘Dear Abby’ columnist Pauline Phillips dies at 94

Yes, Larry David tattoos exist, and yes, they are ridiculous

Likud wins 32? 33? 35? 37? Polls disagree

Shira Gavrielov, an Israeli singer, rocks ‘American Idol’ auditions (VIDEO)

Klezmer in Jerusalem

Howard Stern apologizes for calling Lena Dunham ‘little fat girl’

Mayim Bialik’s next goal: to climb a mountain

Trump endorses “Benjamin,” pushback on Obama

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