Weekend

Taking care of business

A man’s world? Not for Lena Gurary. She launched her own business a few years after arriving from Uzbekistan, and went on to found Supportive Community, a nonprofit that helps other women − immigrants and native Israelis, Jews and Arabs − become entrepreneurs.

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Lena Gurary - David Bachar - February 10, 2012

It's the sovereignty, stupid

Outrageous as their vetoes of the Security Council resolution on Syria might have seemed in the West, China and Russia had good reasons to oppose UN condemnation of Assad.

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Alice, her husband, her lover and 'Hatikva'

Naphtali Herz Imber, author of Israel’s national anthem, was for a time the personal secretary of Laurence Oliphant, a British MP who was an ardent advocate of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land. Enter Oliphant’s wife, Alice, with whom Naphtali fell passionately in love. Their story inspired a book by Ram Oren, who here describes how he uncovered the long-forgotten affair

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Israel isn't likely to strike Iran's nuclear program - this time

Israel's belligerent talk is likely to be just that - talk. But that doesn't mean the regional upheaval couldn't make the nuclear threats facing us much, much worse.

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Magazine

Trash - Koby Kalmanovich - February 10, 2012

Can Israel become garbage-free?

Israelis have the distinction of being among the world’s biggest creators of trash. Despite calls by environmentalists to reduce waste and recycle, now experts believe the ultimate goal should be life without any garbage.

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Five simpleton questions

Holocaust consciousness is a part of every combat pilot's gear, alongside the flak jacket, helmet and maps, and must also be in the kitbag of every soldier at a checkpoint.

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Letters to the Editor (February 10, 2012)

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Rumor has it

Now that Aniston is reaching upper limits of her potential childbearing years, the focus of the story is shifting.

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Music of chance

There are many reasons to choose the lobe of your life. Prowess in the dairy section is not one of them.

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Week's End

Twilight Zone / Carrying the torch

Yair Lapid is an outstanding performer, a born stand-up comic. By the faint light of my cellphone I try to jot down his witticisms, which are flying fast and furious, but the people around me are grumbling.

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Heaping servings of beauty and soul

Ruth Dolores Weiss has no rivals when it comes to depth of expression. Witness her latest album, of songs 'borrowed' for a moment from their original owners.

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Patriarch of zoology

Prof. Heinrich Mendelssohn devoted his life to studying local fauna. Nine years after his death, his legacy is still palpable.

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Subterranean horror and hope

At the age of 7, in 1943, Krystyna Chiger descended with her family into the sewers of Lvov to escape the Germans, battling hunger, death and disease. Her story has now come to the silver screen, but has ruffled some feathers.

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Talent, and touching vulnerability

A decade ago, Li At Glick left Israel for New York, leaving behind a promising acting career. When she returned, she took up filmmaking. In her premiere work, being screened in Berlin this week, she grapples with one of her life's great traumas.

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Magazine

Can Israel become garbage-free?

Five simpleton questions

Letters to the Editor (February 10, 2012)

Rumor has it

Music of chance

Week's End

Twilight Zone / Carrying the torch

Heaping servings of beauty and soul

Patriarch of zoology

Subterranean horror and hope

Talent, and touching vulnerability

Anglo File

Too few women lead major U.S. Jewish Federations, MK says

CityKids on its way to becoming a bilingual school

Olim League / Aviv avenges last year's drubbings by England A

Basketball / Yak Pak takes a pair to make top of league table crowded

Tu Bishvat golf tourney goes down to wire