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Zalman Shoval: Balancing Business and Politics (part I)

Posted on 24 September 2008

The founder of Bank of Jerusalem discusses what led him to professional greatness and the impact of the current economic crisis.

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Dreams vs. Reality: How do we view Aliyah?

Posted on 26 August 2008

When it comes to Aliyah are we being delusional? Can we cope with reality?

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Olim in Israel’s Job Market: Do We Stand a Chance?

Posted on 25 August 2008

Israeli companies have been feeling the economic stress that is currently reverberating around the world.

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Ambassador Dore Gold

Posted on 07 August 2008

In today’s political climate, discourse amongst international figureheads spreads a virulent criticism over Israel’s policies. As Israel stands as a constant target of aggression from neighboring Arab countries, international bodies (namely the United Nations) continue to fault Israel with issues that run the gamut of the socio-political spectrum. Ambassador Dore Gold, however, uses harsher ...
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Profile of a Dissident: Natan Sharansky

Posted on 06 August 2008

When asked what Jerusalem means to him, Natan Sharansky gives quite the atypical response: Leshana haba’a b’Yerushalayim ! The phrase has him recall his days when he was on trial in Soviet Russia. The KGB interrogated him incessantly for committing “treason,” “espionage” and other criminal activities. All of these accusations were in the form ...
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An Afternoon With Moshe Feiglin

Posted on 30 July 2008

The Shiur TIMES staff had the honor and privilege to meet with Mr. Moshe Feiglin. As many of our readers know, Mr. Feiglin has climbed the ladder within Israeli politics. Along with Mr. Shmuel Sackett, Mr. Feiglin began the “Zo Artzeinu” movement in the mid ‘90’s staging non-violent civil disobedience protests and empowering those ...
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Legacy Reclaimed

Posted on 30 July 2008

As the Nazi reign of terror began to close in on the Jews of Poland, Mr. Taub, a successful textile manufacturer, gathered some of his family’s valuables and hid them in a false wall within his retail outlet. Soon afterwards, the Taub family was transferred to the Krakow ghetto. By the end of the ...
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Getting Your Kids to Speak English

Posted on 29 July 2008

What do Ariel Sharon’s neurosurgeon, last year’s Israeli Nobel Prize winner and my seven-year-old daughter have in common?  They all speak English, but only one of them was born in Israel, and she’s just in the first grade. Learning how to speak English may seem natural to the English-speaking parent of an Israeli child, but ...
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Ain’t Goin’ to Play on Saturday

Posted on 23 July 2008

Israel’s shomer Shabbat pro baseball league opens June 24 Dovid Green has been playing baseball most of his life—which amounts to about 27 years. He started Little League at the age of eight, then went on to play for Maimonidies High School in Boston and Yeshiva University. “I dreamed about playing in the Majors,” he recalls. ...
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Treasures From Cairo

Posted on 22 July 2008

The Cairo Genizah has captured the imagination of scholars and laymen around the world.  A repository of Hebrew language documents spanning a period of over one thousand years, it is a window into ages past, and a doorway to secrets nearly lost. In 1896, two learned English ladies traveling in Egypt purchased some fragments of ...
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Treasures From Cairo

Posted on 14 July 2008

The Cairo Genizah has captured the imagination of scholars and laymen around the world.  A repository of Hebrew language documents spanning a period of over one thousand years, it is a window into ages past, and a doorway to secrets nearly lost. In 1896, two learned English ladies traveling in Egypt purchased some fragments of ...
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A Master Artist Speaks: The Painting of a Megilla by the Louis Family

Posted on 14 July 2008

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Reviving the House of David: Exclusive Interview with Ms. Susan Roth

Posted on 03 June 2008

“I’d venture to say that three-quarters of the government is actually related to King David!”

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