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Blog Name: Jerusalem Diaries
Url: http://jerusalemdiaries.blogspot.com
Language: English
Topics: israel, jerusalem
Description: Share Jerusalem's most interesting events, most fascinating people and most meaningful places with me...
Popularity: 17 Followers

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Israel Provides Swine Flu Vaccine to Pal. Hajj Pilgrims
This just in from the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria: (Anyone taking bets on whether you'll see this in the NY Times tomorrow..?)Transfer of Swine Flu Vaccine via Israel to the Palestinian Authority This evening the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria facilitated the entry of 20,000 doses of swine flu vaccine to the Palestinian Authority. This effort, which brought the vaccines to Ramallah via the Qalandiya crossing, comes a few days before Palestinians set out to the Hajj to Mecca early week and was necessary since vaccination against swine flu is a condition for entrance into Mecca, Islam's holiest city. The Civil Adminis
Yahrzeits
Today is the traditionally observed yahrzeit of Rachel, one of the matriarchs of the Jewish people. Thousands flocked to her tomb just south of Jerusalem near Bethlehem last night and today to pay their respects and pray for the release of captured Israeli sodlier Gilad Shalit.“For generations Rachel has prayed for her children to return home safely, and we hope that this year our prayers will be answered and Gilad will return home to his family,” said Rabbi Yosef Schwinger, Director of Israel’s Holy Sites Authority.Most Israeli media outlets barely mentioned the yahrzeit of Rachel, preferring to focus hours of discussion and debate on the 14th anniversary of
SDS is still Alive...not well, but alive
Hat tip to Solomonia for spotting a planning session of SDS--the campus radicals who were around back in my days in college. Today they're a group of anti-Zionist Jews who are plotting to disrupt the upcoming Dore Gold/ Judge Goldstone debate at Brandeis.From: "Jonathan M. Sussman" jsus[snip]To: sds sds@lists.brandeis.eduSubject: Goldstone Forum Action Planning - Wed. @ 10!Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:32:19 -0400 (EDT)Hey!As many of you know, Brandeis will be hosting a forum next Thursday, 11/5, to discuss the Goldstone Report, a report from the United Nations which determined that Israel
Israel Matzav: Live webcast of Goldstone - Gold debate
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Conferences & Politicians...
Yesterday my colleague Lenny Ben David posted a must-read piece on Pajamas Media asking some tough questions of the J Street leadership.Other concerned members of the pro-Israel community have raised enough eyebrows over the groups agenda and backers that a number of smart US politicians have backed out of attending the upcoming J Street conference in Washington.(see below for the list and what you can do...)Meanwhile, here in Jerusalem, a very different conference, the Presidential Conference, got underway last night at Binyanei Hauma, where a star-stud

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