Rabbi Miller Leaving RIETS Israel Kollel for YU? | YU Beacon Richard Joel and R. Miller have been discussing R. Miller's ideas about how to better carry over the Israel experience to YU for guys who return home and do not thrive in the intellectually-saturated yeshiva-college environment. R. Miller … http://yubeacon.com/ — Mon, 29...
(CNN) — As a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Kobi Skolnick once fired shots at Aziz Abu Sarah’s aunt’s house in the West Bank town of Hebron. Ten years later, Skolnick, a former Israeli settler, who grew up in an ultra-orthodox household, and Abu Sarah, once a Palestinian militant, work together explaining both...
Syria’s closest ally, Iran, is calling on the government in Damascus to listen to the people’s “legitimate demands.” The comments Saturday by Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi were the first such remarks from Iran since the five-month-old uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began. Salehi warned of dangerous regional implications if the crisis...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday that Israel has no intention at this time of approving additional Egyptian troops in the eastern Sinai Peninsula. Barak’s statement comes despite a report Friday in Haaretz and the British weekly The Economist that the defense minister said it was in Israel’s interest to allow Egypt to bring...
