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You should be able to watch information about it here but I’m having trouble seeing the video. Here’s what I gleaned:
Mideast Discussion
Tonight
6:30-8:30pm
Sponsored by the Middle East Peace Forum
Dan Haggerty was the reporter for NewsNet5.com and his email is haggerty@newsnet5 if people want more information.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:23 pm December 30th, 2008 in democracy, Gaza, Israel | Comments Off
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Molotov cocktail hits Chicago synagogue
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From the Chicago Tribune:
No one was hurt in the arson at Temple Sholom, 3480 N. Lake Shore Drive, that police are investigating as a hate crime.
Bomb and arson detectives were at the scene Monday afternoon and the investigation was ongoing, said Chicago police officer Daniel O’Brien.
O’Brien said the fire “extinguished itself, nothing ever caught fire.” No suspect was in custody as of Monday afternoon, he said.
“The offender drove off and made a derogatory statement” to a witness, and police were working to review surveillance equipment in the area, said O’Brien.
[Temple president Roger] Rudich said the incident was not “terribly expensive or damaging,” but “it’s just so unsettling.”
Fighting speech with speech seems to be a reasonable strategy, but violence with violence has never appealed to me.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:31 pm December 30th, 2008 in Crime, Gaza, Israel, Jewish, Judaism | 3 Comments
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Assuming you don’t read Hebrew, here is some translation. If you’ve been reading reports, you will recognize many of the names of the cities.
The lightest blue rectangular area in the mid-to left of the image is Gaza, bordered by the Mediteranean Sea.
In the 10 km purple area, at the top of that sliver, around the curve to the Mediterranean, is Ashkelon and above it, Ashdod (in the light green which is 30 km).
Also in the Purple, right at the northern most bend of the stripe toward the sea is Sderot.
In the turquoise stripe, the 40 km area, is Beer Sheva.
In the burgundy stripe is Netivot.
The land in the blue, at the end of the Gaza Strip, is “Mitzrayim” – Egypt. So when you read about how Gazans seek to get into Egypt, it is along that southern border.
The entire area to the east of Gaza is the Negev, primarily dessert. To the north, and north of Ashdod, about 25 miles from Ashdod, is Tel Aviv.
Hattip Muqata who is liveblogging.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:36 am December 30th, 2008 in Gaza, Israel | 9 Comments
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Israeli Consulate to Tweet press conference tomorrow, 1-3pm
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Tomorrow, 30 December, from 1-3PM EST, David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs in New York, will answer your questions about the situation in Israel and Gaza in a “Citizens’ Press Conference.”
You can submit your question by directing it to our Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/IsraelConsulate . We will do our best to answer through Twitter. If an answer requires more than the 140 character limit, we will respond on Twitter with a link to an answer posted in this blog.
We hope you will be able to join us–tell your friends!!
Hmm – I might have to live-blog it…
Read more from DIP and Boing Boing (thank you Xeni Jardin).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:50 am December 30th, 2008 in democracy, Foreign Affairs, Gaza, Israel, Media, social media, Tech | Comments Off
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