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- Noam Shalit gives Jimmy Carter letter to Gilad
- Convict stages son's bar mitzvah in New York jail
- Massive turnout as Iran votes: Ahmadinejad or reformist?
- IN PICTURES / Iran chooses a president
- Anshel Pfeffer / Comparing Iran to Nazis harms Israel
| Noam Shalit gives Jimmy Carter letter to Gilad Posted: 12 Jun 2009 10:09 AM PDT Noam Shalit, father of abducted Israel Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit, passed a letter to his son to former United States president during their meeting on Friday. ... |
| Convict stages son's bar mitzvah in New York jail Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:34 AM PDT The young boy read from the Torah during his bar mitzvah, his guests enjoyed a catered kosher spread and the proud father returned to his cell. ... |
| Massive turnout as Iran votes: Ahmadinejad or reformist? Posted: 12 Jun 2009 08:32 AM PDT Iranians streamed to polling stations on Friday in a hotly contested election and a senior ally of Mirhossein Mousavi said the moderate candidate was on track to defeat hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ... |
| IN PICTURES / Iran chooses a president Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:38 AM PDT Who can run: Under the Iranian Constitution, candidates for president must be Muslim and between the ages of 25 to 75. There are differing interpretations about whether women are eligible for the presidency, but the ruling clerics have blocked all potential women candidates. Parliament permits women and members of religious minorities to run. People with criminal records or high-ranking officials of the toppled monarchy are banned from running for elected office. ... |
| Anshel Pfeffer / Comparing Iran to Nazis harms Israel Posted: 12 Jun 2009 01:25 AM PDT A week before the Gulf War broke out in January 1991, my grandparents called my mother from their home in Milan and begged her to come with all her children and stay with them until the war's end. They would pay all the airfares. In the diary I kept at the time, I wrote rather indignantly, "my parents didn't come on aliyah to run away at the first sign of danger." ... |
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