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Jeffrey Goldberg...oh and the Prime Minister

At the General Assembly, which I neglected to finish writing about because I am all Jewed out right now, I went to a forum which featured Michael Parks, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Times, a spokeswoman from...

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"Texas"

Innocuous vanity plates or symptom of a larger malady? Read on to find out. In the five minutes after I depart Houston Hobby airport in my mother's semi-old silver Volvo, I encounter the billboard of the ages. I was shocked...

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Karnit Goldwasser Speaks

As Karnit Goldwasser, the wife of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, quietly appeared at the podium at the 75th annual General Assembly, her words almost became a nonessential addition to a profound experience. Strikingly composed, she took a moment to...

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It Goes Well with Turkey...

Not sleep or stuffing or even razzleberry dressing...it's TFR LOVE GRAVY... Alright, I give up. Check back on Thursday, I am sans internet until then and "Love Gravy" is the best thing I could come up with to conceal it....

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Running Diary - - GA: Day One

You've waited for it, craved it, longed for it, and then...Howard Dean announced that the Dems aren't going to try to impeach President Bush. So instead...you'll have to read my running diary of the General Assembly instead. I know, I'm...

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General Assembly

Some light housekeeping...I've finished posting my relevant entries from www.100words.net. I hope you enjoyed. I am in LA this week for the General Assembly (GA), which I realize is an ambiguous sentence for any and all of you that aren't...

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March 16

Hemingway On a walk in Jaffa, I watched the port close for Shabbat and the sunset on the sea from a pier where Arab fisherman stood with their poles and bags of bread in anticipation of their dinner. Some...

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March 15

A drive through the West Bank on the ides of March was less eventful than my thrill-seeking mind had subversively hoped for. A tire burned outside Jericho in protest of an Israeli raid that followed a Palestinian attack on Red...

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Purim - 100 Words

March 12, 2006 In Israel, Purim is celebrated in walled cities exactly one day later than the rest of the country. The logic of why always escapes me. Some interpretation of some text from sometime, much time before now....

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