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US Coalition troops in Afghanistan launched Operation Khanjar, a major new offensive against Taleban operatives in the Helmand River Valley region- the most troubled area in the country. Calling the new operation "very significant", senior US defense officials said that the mission's size and scope is on the brigade level, meaning that thousands of troops are being deployed, not just hundreds. Officials went on to say that the goal will be to reduce violence and build support for the NATO alliance among Afghans by shielding the Afghan population from the insurgency, as opposed to counting success by the number of militants killed.


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Northrop Engineers Replicate Nazi Stealth Bomber

Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corporation in El Segundo, California have replicated a German WWII bomber prototype based on blueprints and partially-built planes captured after the Nazi surrender in May 1945. The Horten 229 stealth fighter, which resembles the US B-2 stealth bomber built in the 1980s, featured radar-evading techniques that would have been capable of rendering British Royal Air Force radar systems of that era useless, had the planes been built and deployed in time.
July 02, 2009

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Approaches to Media Article appears in Horizons

An article I wrote entitled "What's News? How the Media Tells Us What to Think', appears in the May edition of Horizons Jewish-family magazine which came out this week. In it, I discuss news media and it's effects, and I explain much of what goes into Chareidio Global News content development. Horizons is published by Targum Press and is available at Jewish bookstores everywhere.
May 15, 2009
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This Week in History

The Legendary Hurva Synagogue

On the 18th of Iyar in 1948, two days after the Jewish quarter was surrendered to the Jordanians, the Arab conquerers pummeled the famed Hurva synagogue located in the Old City. The Hurva, with its majestic domed roof, served as the nerve-center of cultural and spiritual Jewish life in Jerusalem. It was destroyed in 1721 by Arab creditors and rebuilt in 1864 by students of the famed Vilna Gaon. It's Holy Ark and ornamental gates were shipped to Jerusalem from the Nikolaijewsky synagogue in southern Ukraine, and it's roof served as a veranda on which to behold the site of the Temple Mount. As Jerusalem's central synagogue, the Hurva was witness to the vicissitudes of Jerusalem life for centuries. After the Six Day War, a public square, along with a memorial arch were built on the ruins of the grand structure, which remained until recently when the Jerusalem Municipality adopted a plan to restore the Hurva, which is currently under construction and nearly complete.
May 07, 2009

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Analysis

Will He or Won't He

Sometimes journalists seem to dilute "newsworthiness" to ever milder plateaus. Take Sunday's Haaretz spread for example. Top story- "Netanyahu unlikely to back Palestinian State in Meeting with Obama". Unlikely? The article quotes a Netanyahu aide who says that he won't back a Palestinian state, and later quotes Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who said Saturday that he will back a Palestinian state in talks with the new US president. Roll your dice- analysts, but do it on your own time.
May 17, 2009

3 day forecast Jerusalem Weather

Thursday

Morning:
  • Clear
  • 80.6F/27C
  • Wind
Afternoon:
  • Clear
  • 84.2F/29C
  • Wind
Evening:
  • Clear
  • 73.4F/23C
  • Wind
Night:
  • Patchy-Fog
  • 66.2F/19C
  • Wind

Friday

Morning:
  • Clear
  • 71.6F/22C
  • Wind
Afternoon:
  • Clear
  • 77F/25C
  • Wind
Evening:
  • Clear
  • 68F/20C
  • Wind
Night:
  • Patchy-Fog
  • 66.2F/19C
  • Wind

Saturday

Morning:
  • Partly Cloudy
  • 66.2F/19C
  • Wind
Afternoon:
  • Clear
  • 75.2F/24C
  • Wind
Evening:
  • Clear
  • 66.2F/19C
  • Wind
Night:
  • Patchy-Fog
  • 62.6F/17C
  • Wind


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