And Give Up Showbiz: How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year & Transformed American Law’ by Josh Young By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –You might not know who Fred Levin is but after you finish reading And Give Up Showbiz you will. […]
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USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that cyber defense solutions will serve as the essential basis for human development and economic growth in this century — I think it’s happening before our very eyes,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told leading policymakers and cybersecurity experts at the 4th Annual International
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view
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International, Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — The Jihadists come in all shapes and colors, but there are various well-defined divisions. The first is Al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11. Their enemy is the modern countries of the West, headed by the United States. They destroyed the World Trade Center 13 years ago and killed many
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to eliminate all administrative fees on federal student loans. By ending these fees, students would save over $1.5 billion per year. “The debt saddling students when they leave college hurts not only the student but impacts our economy,” said Davis, a senior member
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC (American Jewish Committee) has praised President Obama’s call for Arab and Muslim countries to collectively address the sources of violent extremism raging across much of the Middle East and North Africa. “It is time for the world – especially Muslim communities – to explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of
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Middle East, USABy Shlomo Cesana, Gonen Ginat, and Amos Regev JERUSALEM (JNS.org) –In his office, next to photos of his wife and family, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps a portrait of Theodor Herzl. “He was a prophet. A modern prophet,” Netanyahu says, further naming Zionist pioneer Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and Likud
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— America’s Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — was signed into law in 2010 and promised the largest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the 1960s. Designed to provide medical care to uninsured Americans, it has been widely decried as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals. However,
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By Anav Silverman GENEVA, Switzerland – In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Sept, 23, Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Israeli Arab Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth, called attention to the plight of Christian minorities suffering under Muslim extremists in the Arab world. Speaking immediately after a panel discussion on the “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Does something smell especially bad? Or is it just the normal smell of political infighting and mutual accusation? Front and center is Martin Indyk, his past and present roles as a leading figure in the Brookings Institution, Qatar’s multi-million dollar gifts to Brookings, the failure of Indyk to broker a deal
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Monday, Sept. 22, that the United States is providing more than $71 million in additional life-saving humanitarian assistance to help meet emergency needs in Gaza. More than 58,000 people are still sheltering in United Nations facilities and basic necessities like food, clean water, and fuel
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — At its National Board meeting held in Chicago on September 5th, NA’AMAT USA passed the following resolution which was sent to the White House. Dear President Obama, We, the officers and board members of NA’AMAT USA, a national and international organization promoting the welfare rights of women, children and families in Israel
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHAIFA (Press Release)–Have you ever eaten something totally new and it made you sick? Don’t give up; if you try the same food in a different place, your brain will be more “forgiving” of the new attempt. In a new study conducted by the Sagol Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa, researchers found
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