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Behind the Scenes of Russia! the Art Exhibit

Photo: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain.

“We believe the harmony of art, together with the strength of the human spirit, can overcome the contrariness and discord in today’s world.” This statement, made by Larissa Zelkova, Director General of the Vladimir Potanin Charity Fund, also reflects this author’s strongly held belief. The Guggenheim Museum’s Russia! is an inspiring example of how harmony and accord is alive and well, even when displaying art that can be 800 years old. It took the cooperation of an international team of like-minded experts to make an exhibit of this magnitude come to life. Russia! was also made possible by the Potanin Fund, with major sponsorship by Alcoa Foundation and Sintez.

PHOTOS OF THE MONTH: ARABS AND MUSLIMS STREET DISPLAY IN LONDON AND PARIS... IN PHOTOS

STEAMY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. UNCENSORED!

COMMENTARY BY DR. AARON LERNER

Olmert's reality gap

By Dr. Aaron Lerner

The IDF responded with full force when the first Qassam rocket landed in Israel after the retreat from the Gaza Strip, leveling buildings used by the various Palestinian militias and killing scores of armed militiamen targeted from the sky. Elite ground forces also took part in surprise raids to drive home the message that no place in the Gaza Strip was beyond the reach of the IDF. The Palestinian assumption that Israel would honor "human shields" was proven to be deadly wrong when a Qassam launching team was taken out as they were setting up a rocket in a school yard. "The blood of the children of Sderot is no less red" Israeli officials explained.

No. This isn't what happened when the first Qassam fell. And it isn't what happened when the 300th fell. And it isn't what happened when rockets repeatedly landed by "strategic Israeli targets". It didn't even happen after now Kadima politician Avi Dichter confidently proclaimed recently that Israel would show its stuff if the Palestinians dared to launch another Qassam. They launched a score since then and the "stuff" has yet to be seen. Of course there are all kinds of explanations for the yawning gap between post retreat reality and the pre-retreat tough talk but the gap is there for all to see.

It's a gap that Israelis who live near the Gaza Strip are reminded of several times a day as the IDF shells and bombs empty fields in response to an ever increasing number of Palestinian rocket attacks. It's a gap that Mr. Olmert and the rest of the retreat supporters continue to ignore, "Olmert said that once a border is determined, Israel would "not lose any option for security action in line with our needs in the fight against terrorism, which is to a large degree the case today in Gaza." [The Jerusalem Post 9 March] How did the philosopher get out of the pit? He postulated a ladder and climbed out.

Ehud Olmert is trying to do the same thing.

POLITICAL VIEW POINT

Prominent Arab-American Professor Cheers Hamas, Slams Bush. By DR. JOSEPH LERNER

In the interview which follows Rashid Khalidi, Director of Columbia University's Middle East Institute and Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, welcomes Hamas' election victory as deserved and as presenting an opportunity to calm the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by a long-term truce. He asserts that Hamas brought terrorism to the conflict and insists that this should not interfere with its potential to serve the long-term truce. Khalidi attacks Bush for taking a "messianic" stand against terrorism..

Academic Attack on Israel's Military. By Professor Steven Plaut

In the campaign in the UK to organize an academic boycott of Israeli universities, led by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT), it turned out that a fanatic anti-Israel faculty member at an Israeli University, Ilan Pappe from the University of Haifa, was the driving force, seeking to create a boycott of his own university...

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ISRAEL:

Polls: Kadima 34-38 Labor 18-20 Likud 14-18 NRP/Nat'l Union 8-10; 37% support unilaterally evacuating settlements. By Dr. Aaron Lerner...

Handler of Pollard says information obtained was essential to Israel's security

The Israeli handler of Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel two decades ago, defended the risky operation that tarnished Israel-U.S. relations in an interview published Friday, saying Pollard's information was too good to resist and would have made a great difference in the event of war with Arab countries. "I asked myself over and over again what more information could be gained, what and who could be saved by it...

Israeli agent: Soviet mole framed Pollard

A former agent for Israel's intelligence service says that convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was framed by a Soviet agent. Ravi Eitan told Ynetnews.com that Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, did pass on information to Israel..

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WORLD:

Record High: More Christians Martyred in Past 100 Years than in all 1900 Prior Years Combined! Don’t Allow One More.

Afghan Christian Abdul Rahman has been sentenced to death by Afghanistan. His “crime”: Converting from Islam to Christianity. Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, who is in Washington this week for talks on deepening strategic and economic ties with the United States, callously commented on the pending execution, saying, "I know this is a sensitive issue, and we know the concerns of the American people but the government of Afghanistan has nothing to do with it.” Absolutely incredulous! The foreign minister of U.S.-liberated Afghanistan completely defends the right to execute a Christian...

"Hands off Iran," read several placards carried by protesters

Photo: An anti-Iraq war protester wearing a mask depicting US President George Bush, is shadowed by a policeman during a peace march through the streets of Sydney. Several thousand people from a coalition of students, greens, Quakers, and left-wing organisations demanded an end to Australian military presence in Iraq.

An anti war rally in Australia kicked off a wave of global protests on Saturday, as campaigners marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with a demand that coalition troops pull out. Around 500 protesters marched through central Sydney, chanting "End the war now!" and "Troops out of Iraq!"

EU Eyes Budget Deal as Britain Offers New Rebate Cut

Chirac said the EU summit was heading towards a budget deal.

Britain offered Friday to slash a 10.5 billion euros ($12.57 billion) off its cherished EU rebate, sources said, raising hopes of a breakthrough to a fierce standoff over the bloc's future budget. French President Jacques Chirac, who has demanded an outright end to the British budget cheque, immediately said EU leaders appeared to be heading "little by little" toward a deal on the 2007-2013 funding plans..

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have been one of the chief reasons the EU managed to agree on a budget deal during two days of haggling at a Brussels summit.

The EU finally announced it had found a compromise on the bloc's 2007 to 2013 budget in the early hours of Saturday morning. Britain said it would cut 10.5 billion euros ($12.57 billion) off its jealously-guarded budget rebate, with funds being shifted towards the poorer mainly former communist countries that joined the EU last year...

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ARAB WORLD

Bad news for Jordan's mothers. Opportunity for secularists in Arab society. By Sue Lerner.

Coptic Egyptian Website: Mubarak's Recent Decree Allowing Church Renovation and Rebuilding is "Toothless"

In early December, 2005, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a presidential decree easing the severe restrictions on repairing and rebuilding churches in Egypt.(1) In an editorial in the Coptic Internet weekly Watani, editor Youssef Sidhom stated that the decree would deliberately be implemented in a way that would render it meaningless, and cited a letter by an Egyptian governor substantiating this claim.

Qatar to donate 100 military vehicles to the Palestinian Authority

ABU DHABI- Qatar has decided to donate 100 military vehicles to the Palestinian Authority. Qatari Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani directed the military to export 100 surplus combat vehicles to Palestinian security forces...

Hamas MP Asserts Government Formational Declared Before End of the Month...

Hamas outlines basic principles of incoming Palestinian government. Hamas document outlining principles of incoming Palestinian government surfaces recently; Hamas says it is 'committed to the expulsion of the occupation and the right of return,' says it has 'right of resistance in all its forms'..

ARAB DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ARABS

The Jordan Times 15 March '06 "Employment of Jordanians in UAE labour market" which follows below, contains a clear contradiction. The UAE representative states his willingness to remove all obstacles that prevent Jordanians from working in his country." and later says "the UAE gives priority to Jordanians ..."

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PEOPLE, NEWSMAKERS, SOCIETY:

ROSTER OF THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICANS

ROSTER AND PHOTOS OF THE NEWEST WEALTHIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. THE MEGA BILLIONAIRES.

PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH: Jason Ben-Meir. Unquestionably, Ben-Meir is one of the brightest Jewish minds, today, and he is considered to be an international authority on the Arab and Muslim world. Jason Ben-Meir's publications mostly focus on strategies for implementing community development in the Islamic world and how that can enhance relations with the West. In an article, he wrote, "The Right Way to Reconstruct Iraq" Ben-Meir suggested that "

MADONNA ENDORSES HILLARY!

Life Imitates Cartoon Art: Madonna, the diva of decadency has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Presidential election with an eerie resemblance to a page out of the new children’s book, “Help Mom! Hollywood is in my Hamper,” by Katharine DeBrecht. "Hillary Clinton should go for it, definitely," Madonna told ContactMusic.com.

The 99 Most Powerful Women in the World. Jewish women take the lead (2004-2005-2006)...

Sharon Stone Plants a Tree in Israel

Photo: Sharon Stone planting a tree in Israel.

While in Israel at the invitation of the Peres Center for Peace, Hollywood star Sharon Stone visited Jewish National Fund's only project dedicated to an American President, the John F. Kennedy Memorial, where she planted an olive tree in the name of peace. "I was born on a farm and I know about planting with my own hands," she said as she removed her sandals, gently scraped the clod of earth off the sapling and ensured that it was correctly covered and watered...

HADASSAH HONORS BONNIE McELVEEN-HUNTER

Photo: Bonnie McElveen-Hunter

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, saluted the American Red Cross recently by presenting its Chairman of the Board of Governors, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, with a plaque in appreciation for “its steadfast leadership and unwavering support of Magen David Adom of Israel in its quest for admission to the Federation of the International Red Cross...

Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg

Photo: Agnes Adachi.

Last month, a tribute to Raoul Wallenberg was given at the Raoul Wallenberg School in New York and a portrait by Mossad Agent was donated to the school. Agnes Adachi, who aided WWII hero Raoul Wallenberg, spoke for the first time to students at the Raoul Wallenberg School in New York. Mossad Agent Peter Malkin, the man who captured Eichmann, donated to the school, a portrait of Malkin, who died in 2005...

Beit T’Shuvah

Photo: Chief Executive Harriett Rossetto, creator and Director of Beit T’Shuvah.

Rossetto, always a woman in search of her “calling”, knew she had found it 15 years ago when a small want ad in the Los Angeles Times caught her eye. Person of Jewish background and culture to work with Jewish criminal offenders. Masters in Social Work required. Harriet soon realized that the majority of Jews behind bars were there as a by-product of addictive/compulsive behaviors...

Gwyneth's haunted house

Photo: The 33-year-old is adamant her London home is haunted and wants to create a good energy before she gives birth to her second child .

Gwyneth Paltrow is planning to have her home exorcised, it has been reported. The 33-year-old is adamant her London house is haunted and wants to create a good energy before she gives birth to her second child...

Muslim head says gays 'harmful'

Photo: Sir Iqbal Sacranie said everyone's views should be heard.

A British Muslim leader has told the BBC he believes homosexuality is "not acceptable" and denounced new same-sex civil partnerships as "harmful". Head of the Muslim Council of Britain Sir Iqbal Sacranie said introducing the partnerships did "not augur well" for building the foundations of society...

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF THE MONTH:

SKIP THE STEREOTYPES. THE CHALLAH JEWISH MOTHERS WELCOME HERE. At San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel, you won't find young women rejecting the title of "Jewish Mother". Instead, here they embrace it. Just ask the young mothers who make up the Sherith Israel Mamas, a support group designed to help women create a Jewish home for their families...

Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island. Under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Wiener, Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island (JCCGCI) has become one of the best and greatest humanitarian and socio-cultural organizations in the United States...

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ARTICLES, COMMENTARIES AND IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS:

Hamas Encouraging Children to Die for Allah on Website

Hamas has a special web site for children, al-fateh.net, where violence is glorified and death for Allah is labelled a "victory." Al-Fateh means 'The Conqueror.' The Shahada deaths of terrorists during attacks against Israel are presented to children as a time of celebration...

PA CHIEF ABBAS: TERRORISM AGAINST ARABS IS "CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY," BUT TERRORISM AGAINST JEWS "DAMAGING TO PALESTINIAN INTERESTS"

Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas, condemned last month's terrorist attack in Amman, Jordan, as a "crime against humanity" but made no similar moral condemnation of last week terrorist attack in Netanya, which killed five Israelis and wounded over 30 more...

Rabbi Michael Melchior and the Usual Suspects

Rabbi Michael Melchior, Member of the Knesset and a long time advocate for peace with the Palestinian Arabs spoke at Temple Emanuel in Palm Beach Florida. He spoke under the sponsorship of his wealthy personal patron and the usual nationwide suspects - the perennial peace-advocating Jewish Federations and their Community Relations Councils - in this case that of Palm Beach...

George Bush's Diplomatic Ambiguities

The majority of the Palestinian Arabs voted for Hamas and the Bush administration acts surprised and shocked. They denounce Hamas and are squirming to find ways to still proceed with a fictional "peace process" based on an ill-conceived scheme called the Roadmap...

The Political Lessons of Purim

Just before Purim it is traditional for Jews to read as the Haftara portion in synagogues the section of the First Book of Samuel in which King Saul is stripped of his kingdom and office. The context is that Haman, the villain of Purim, is thought to be descendent from Agog, the evil king of the Amalekites, captured by King Saul...

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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

WHO KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND WHY? DISCOVERIES & NEW THEORIES.

WHO Killed Kennedy? That is the question! Why they killed Kennedy? This is the second biggest question! Nobody really knows except those who were involved. But who are those people who designed and executed the most famous and infamous assassination-plot-cover-up and enigmatic intrigue of the 20^th century? There are so many theories and possibilities encompassing the “One Bullet Theory”, “The Three Bullet Theory”, “The New Orleans Connection”, “The Marseilles Connection”, “The Corsican Killers Connection”, “The Mafia Involvement”, “The Castro Involvement”, “The Jimmy Hoffa’s Group Connection”, “The FBI Hoover Cover Up”, “The Lyndon Johnson Involvement”, “The Oswald-KGB Involvement”, you name it and you will find a fertile terrain…fertile for all kind of possibilities, assumptions, accusations, finger pointing, theories, etc…In addition, coroners, forensic pathologists, criminologists on different sides of the fence and belonging to convergent and divergent political parties, views and interests have contradictory, confusing and alarming explanations, justifications and points of view...

FEATURE ARTICLES

Arab World and Arab Media Justification of Acts of Violence

What usually, Arab heads of states, politicians, scholars, moderate leaders and reporters tell the American public, IS NOT what they tell their own people and state in the Arab media...

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ENTERTAINMENT, CINEMA, SHOWBIZ:

Flawed and Flimsy – Early 2006 Current Film Round-up. Marion D.S. Dreyfus on "Syriana", George Clooney, "Munich" - ca va sans dire - written by a writer who makes no secret that he is dismissive of Israel's right to exist, and based upon a fallacious Oliver-Stonybook by a never-was Mossad wanna-be, makes a hash of the factual history, damages the credibility of the participants who avenged their innocent brethren murdered for the savage goals of Arafat's goons to teach the world a paltry and bloody lesson that failed..."Sophie Scholl" is the best upcoming film on the screen. A true story, using actual transcripts, of the White Rose group in WWII Germany, who all tried valiantly to bruit the truth about what Hitler was doing to the world, its Jews, and the German polity...

Sharon Stone doesn't mind doing nude scenes

Photo: Sharon Stone admitted she doesn't mind doing nude scenes in films like her new release, Basic Instinct 2.

Sharon Stone, who returns as the seductive Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct 2, says she has no problem doing a nude scene — if it's right for the role. "It's pretty easy for me to be naked," the 48-year-old actress said Wednesday. "I'm a person who feels that if it's appropriate for the character I'm playing or the mood of the piece, then it's no big thing."

A Hitler comedy

Photo: Dani Levy is no stranger to controversy.

Filming starts on a controversial new project this month - a comedy, in German, about Adolf Hitler. It is the work of the Swiss Jewish director Dani Levy, who in 2005 had a big hit with a comedy called Alles auf Zucker! - about Jews in Germany today...

Madge pimps her ride

Photo: Madge is ditching her snazzy range of motors to delight legions of boy racers with a Pimp My Ride-style video for her next single .

Queen of Pop Madonna is getting Tim Westwood onside to jazz up her Ford Cortina in the video for her new single. The Ford banger is a world away from the £300,000 Mercedes Maybach limo she relaxes in whilst at her home in LA...

Dame Judi Dench: "I am not an intellectual".

Photo: Dame Judi plays a widowed theatre owner in Mrs Henderson. Presents

Dame Judi Dench has admitted she never reads the plays she stars in, saying she merely takes roles "because someone asked me to". The respected actress told US magazine Newsweek that she was no intellectual. "I've got myself into real trouble by saying yes to a play, then going to the first reading and realising..

LONDON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ COMPETITION...

FCC FINES CBS $3.6 MILLION FOR INDECENCY

FCC Fines May only be Tip of the Indecency Iceberg as Other Complaints Still Pending. The March 15, 2006 FCC recommended fines for broadcasting indecency were the result of over 300,000 citizen complaints between 2002 and 2005.

The Magic of Pete Malinverni. The Spring of 2006 will see the release of two important recordings by critically acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Pete Malinverni. The two releases, “Theme & Variations” and “Joyful!”, represent an interesting paradigm. They appear, at first glance, to be recordings of wholly diverse musical forms and yet they truly reveal two brilliant sides of the musical sensibility of one very special artist.

Matt Haimovitz Brings Goulash! to a Boil in 2006. Best-selling Goulash! Re-enters Billboard Charts. New performance in New York City – March 19, 26, April 2: The Knitting Factory. In March Matt Haimovitz and friends bring the music of Goulash! and beyond on a three-weekend, three-city, jam-packed and jam-filled tour with the music of Bartók (Duos, Dances, Rhapsody no. 1, Quartet no. 2, Sonata for Solo Violin)...

Filming of a new version of the Hollywood movie based on the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code is to take place at the Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, UK.

The Jerusalem Film Festival loved 'The Big Question'...will you?

Karen Benjamin and Alan Chapman at STEINWAY HALL: SONGWRITERS AND THEIR SONGS.

JANIS FINE AND JEFF WINTER: COME TO THE JEWISH CABARET.

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MUSIC:

TURKEY OF THE MONTH: CHADLOVE

CDs REVIEWS: International Music. American Standards. Ethnic...Craig Taubman...Rihana...Bonnie Raitt...Eric Clapton...Ann Hampton Callaway...Andrea Marcovicci...Neil Blumofe...And much more.

EVENTS. GOSSIPS. VIRTUOSO CORNER

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ARTS:
Behind the Scenes of Russia! the Art Exhibit

The Guggenheim Museum’s Russia! is an inspiring example of how harmony and accord is alive and well, even when displaying art that can be 800 years old. It took the cooperation of an international team of like-minded experts to make an exhibit of this magnitude come to life. Russia! was also made possible by the Potanin Fund, with major sponsorship by Alcoa Foundation and Sintez.

The Worst and Most Decadent Art Show of the Year. Rubbish and Decadence of the Modern Art in England!!

Atrocious art. Decadent and expensive. Some investment bankers lead a varied life. If 35-year-old Emma Chan is not clinching deals at her desk, or snowboarding in Switzerland, she can be found chatting to celebrities on London's South Bank - in the nude. Chan, from Twickenham, and her boyfriend Rob, who is also an investment banker, spent months upstaging Nigella Lawson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Grant at the opening of the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall. She was one of 160 'extra ordinary, ordinary' people who volunteered to take their clothes off in public for the American artist Spencer Tunick. 'It was so liberating.

The Most Expensive and Wanted Artworks in the World
If a piece is “truly, truly to die for” and is still in private hands, it is no doubt on someone else’s wish list. Like that $100 million Cézanne.

The Da Vinci Code at the Louvre

The Louvre Museum in Paris had a record number of visitors in 2005, with successful soirees for young people, crowd-pleasing exhibitions and promotion from "The Da Vinci Code," a top administrator said. About 7.3 million people visited the art museum in 2005, up from 6.7 million in 2004 -- the previous record -- general administrator Didier Selles told The Associated Press. Definitive 2005 figures are expected in coming weeks...

"Gauguin and Impressionism"

Photo: Paul Gauguin, Nude Study (Woman Sewing), 1880, oil on canvas. NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen .

This winter the Kimbell Art Museum presents Gauguin and Impressionism, the first-ever comprehensive survey of Paul Gauguin’s early career. The exhibition will be on view at the Kimbell—its only American venue—from December 18, 2005, to March 26, 2006. All of the great French artists normally known as Post-Impressionists exhibited with the Impressionists, but the involvement of Cézanne and Seurat in the movement was slight compared to that of Gauguin. He contributed to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions—more than either Renoir or Sisley—and was the most active artist-collector of Impressionist paintings after Caillebotte. Gauguin and Impressionism demonstrates both that he was an Impressionist and that he was a brilliant and highly original one...

Joseph Nechvatal: Artist's digital exhibit at Butler Institute proves provocative, innovative...

We know what a virus is. You catch one, you come down with a cold, or as the medical practitioners would have it, an upper respiratory infection. Most of us know what another kind of virus is -- the kind you can get on your computer that can wipe out all your data, what computer programmers call hell on Earth. There's a great deal of similarity between the two types of viruses -- the biological one and the virtual one -- and it's nothing to sneeze at. So if you thought that the term ``computer virus'' was just a metaphor, think again. Better yet, go to the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown and see Joseph Nechvatal: Contaminations, a digital art exhibit on view through April 23 in its new Beecher wing...

EXHIBITIONS IN NEW YORK:

Julian Dashper: Future Call and Untitled (CV)
On view until April 15, 2006 at the Esso Gallery, New York, NY. Jennifer and Filippo Fossati are presenting the first solo show in New York by New Zealand based artist Julian Dashper in their project room at Esso Gallery opening March 10 through April 15, 2006. For his show at Esso, Julian Dashper will present two works; the first titled Future Call 1994-2006 and the second Untitled (C.V.) 1979-2006.

Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
On view at MoMA until May 8, 2006. This is the first retrospective devoted to the work of the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker, and draftsman to be held in an American museum in almost three decades. Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul surveys Munch’s career in its entirety, from 1880 to 1944, showcasing his artistic achievement in its true richness and diversity.

John Szarkowski: Photographs On View at MOMA until May 15, 2006. John Szarkowski: Photographs is the first retrospective of the esteemed photographer’s work. The exhibition features Szarkowski’s early photographs—beginning with pictures of his native Midwest dating from 1943 and continuing through his acceptance of a curatorial post at The Museum of Modern Art in 1962—as well as his later works, many of which were made around his farm in upstate New York.

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CULTURE. BOOKS:

Israel Antiquities Authority reports findings from time of United Kingdom of King Solomon and Kingdom of Israel

In excavations conducted by the Antiquities Authority in Kfar Kana - north of Nazareth - a city was uncovered that dates to the time of the Kingdom of Israel. In addition, other remains were exposed of the Jewish settlement from the Roman period identified with "Kana of the Galilee", which is known from the New Testament. Among the other antiquities discovered that date to this period are 'hiding refuges', underground pits linked by short tunnels that were apparently built and hewn prior to the Great Revolt by the Jews against the Romans in 66 CE.

Gary Morgenstein's Loving Rabbi Kleinman is a canvas of the suffering of unpolished intellect and emotional anxiety catapulted by the very personal choice of Joss Katz, and in many instances, by unmerciful course of events beyond the control and rational analysis of Joss Katz. You pity Katz, because he is confused, honest, affectionate and lovable. You despise him, because he is profane, unable to trust again, incapable of commitment and so forth. However, you will ride with him an extra mile, because you sense and see a projection of yourself in his mishaps..

A HIDDEN LITERARY TREASURE IN NEW YORK

Photo: New Yorker author, Ilil Arbel wrote a masterpiece.

How much do you know about Ilil Arbel? Do you know who Arbel is? If you have been sleeping for long time, or if you do not read books, allow me, cher compatriote to inform you that Ilil Arbel, Ph.D., author of the masterpiece "THE LEMON TREE" lives and works in New York City...

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LIFESTYLES:

ROSTER OF THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICANS

KABBALAH FOR YOUR HAIR, MADAME! MADONNA FIRST TO TRY IT.

Photos from L to R: 1.Gia Sari, the Israeli inventor of the Kabala hair formula in her salon in Manhattan. 2. Madonna.

Oui Madame, but of course, Kabala formula for your hair. A new product to make a big buzz in the world of beauty and hair fashion, invented by a young Israeli hair designer who opened a "salon de beaute" in Manhattan. And stars and world celebrities are getting excited and curious about it. Some of them might go to heaven with long and beautifully Kabalistic hair. I mean, those who are meditating "under the boardwalk" or using this most unusual hair product!?

THE EXPOSED BREAST FASHION: WHAT IS THE CONCEPT?

Giants like Christian Dior, de Givenchy and Jacques Fath never allowed their models to parade in the nude. Glamour was the key but, never nudity. At least, that was the etiquette of early classy French mode. But now, the rules are dumped. And insiders put the blame on American fashion entrepreneurs, Italian designers who are doing business with Americans, and Oh La La, (Can I say this?) on American gay designers! It could be true, but I am not totally convinced. The last 2 fashions at the London Fashion Week raised red flags...

BEST HOTELS IN NEW YORK

Dogs suffer the fashion whims of their owners: They're not an accessory yet people treat them and discard them as if they were. Recently three ladies on the bike path in Whistler stopped their animated conversation when Callie, our golden retriever, approached them for a pat and a sniff. The ladies happily obliged her, all parties were pleased with the brief encounter, and various nice remarks were made about golden retriever charm. But as they passed by, I heard one of the women say, in reference to this breed, "Yes, but everybody and his brother has one."

Fashion 2007.

NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. Skinny pants and clothes that are either shiny or slightly shabby, were among the early trends for fall at New York Fashion Week. Metallic fabrics replaced the beading that has been popular for several seasons, while distressed leathers, especially in military-inspired garments, looked modern and...

Chocolate may cut heart disease

The health claims of chocolate are not accepted by all.

Researchers have produced more evidence that dark chocolate may help to reduce the risk of serious heart disease. They found eating a few squares a day may stave off artery narrowing and hardening in smokers by countering the disruption caused by their habit. Smoking compromises the activity of both endothelial cells, which line the artery walls, and platelets, which are involved in blood clot formation. The research, by University Hospital, Zurich, is published in Heart. The researchers compared the effects of dark (74% cocoa solids) and white chocolate on the smoothness of blood flow in the arteries of 20 male smokers...

LAURICE RAHME: NEW YORK'S QUEEN OF FRAGRANCES

CONSIDERING PLASTIC SURGERY?

It is not widely known, but plastic surgery seldom, if ever, uses any plastic. In fact, the name actually has no connection at all with synthetic polymers (i.e., plastics). In this sense, "plastic" derives from the Greek word plastikos meaning "to build up or take form." Plastic surgery deals with the appearance, form and surgical reconstruction of body tissues -- not the use of plastic substances to do so. Plastic surgery is also much older than most people think...

PATISSERIE FOR PETS

Paris is well known as a canine form of paradise, with the city's 200,000 dogs welcome in department stores and even allowed to eat at the table in the best restaurants. Now though one entrepreneur has ingeniously combined Parisians' two real passions - for their pets and gourmet food - to produce the perfect Parisian patisserie: a bakery devoted to dogs. It sells bacon biscuits in the shape of a cat, or garlic and cheese flavour, and even bone-shaped cookies made of real foie gras...

2007 FASHION NEW TRENDS

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ARTICLES WORTH REVISITING:

TERRORISM AND THE RIGHT TO EXIST.

THE ARAB/PALESTINIAN/ISLAMIC POINT OF VIEW. THE ISRAELI/JEWISH POINT OF VIEW.

EXCLUSIVE: TERRORISM PHOTO ALBUM.

THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR: WINNERS, LOSERS, AND TURKEYS.

AL QAEDA'S NEW TARGETS: IBM, COCA COLA, PFIZER MICROSOFT, McDONALDS.

THE DOS & DON'TS IN DINING WITH A JEWISH PRINCESS. HOW TO IMPRESS HER.

How to land an eligible Jewish gentleman, regardless of your age.

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