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National Basketball Association teams, fans and analysts seem to be in a constant search for the “next Michael Jordan,” looking for a player to duplicate the feats of the six-time champion and five-time Most Valuable Player many consider the best ever in his sport. Lior Eliyahu won’t enter that conversation, but the “next Omri Casspi” […]

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Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, passed away June 30 at the age of 96. Shamir, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, served intermittently as prime minister from 1983 to 1992 as the head of the Likud. Before entering politics, he worked at the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, and was a member of the Revisionist […]

Vandalism in a Jewish section of Vienna’s Central Cemetery left 43 gravestones toppled or damaged. “We are deeply dismayed at this level of vandalism,” Jewish community President Oscar Deutsch said last Friday in a statement on the community’s website after inspecting the cemetery. Deutsch said the Jewish community hoped for quick action on the case […]

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