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Long-range rockets strike Eilat
Two long-range rockets fired from the Sinai Desert struck the Israeli resort city of Eilat.
Bezalel - Master Architect of Sacred Space - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekude
Egypt seizes two tons of explosives bound for Sinai
Egypt seized two tons of explosives hidden in a truck carrying a shipment of fruits and vegetables bound for Sinai on Friday, security sources said.
Israel hit by more Palestinian rockets, kills al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists
Two rockets fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip exploded in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council on Sunday, causing no damage to property or injuries, Army Radio reported.
Israeli intel: Independent jihadist network perpetrating Sinai attacks
Terror attacks in the Sinai emanated from an independent jihadist network there, Israeli intelligence reportedly believes.
Egypt’s president in U.S., seeks to chart a new course
As Mohammed Morsi makes his first visit to the United States since becoming Egypt’s first democratically elected president to attend the annual opening sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, an Egyptian court has sentenced 14 Islamists to death-by-hanging and four to life imprisonment for attacks against soldiers and border police in the Sinai Peninsula last year. The court said the men, members of a terrorist group called Tawheed and Jihad, killed three policemen, an army officer, and a civilian in the 2011 attacks.
Egypt sentences 14 to death for Sinai attacks
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 Islamists to death for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, showing Egypt's determination to put down militancy in a region critical to relations with neighboring Israel.
Israel will not receive lulavs from Sinai
Israel likely will not have palm fronds from the Sinai for this year's Sukkot lulavs.
Egypt says it has identified suspects in Sinai killings
Egypt has identified seven suspects, including one Egyptian, in the killing of 16 border guards last month that triggered the biggest security sweep along its frontier with Israel in decades, the interior minister said.
September 6, 2012
Egypt replaces tanks with armored vehicles in Sinai
Egypt's military is deploying light armored vehicles in Sinai to replace some heavy tanks whose presence at the border area had raised concerns in Israel, security sources said on Tuesday.A source said last week the army had begun withdrawing some of the tanks, after they had been deployed as part of an operation against militants who attacked and killed 16 border guards on August 5.
Egypt withdraws tanks from Sinai
Egypt has withdrawn some 20 tanks from Sinai in response to Israel's security concerns, according to an unnamed Egyptian official.
Egypt broadens Sinai campaign against militants
Egypt's military said on Wednesday it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.
Clinton urges Egypt, Israel to talk about Sinai
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Egypt's foreign minister to keep lines of communication open with Israel amid tensions over an Egyptian push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, the State Department said on Thursday.
Egypt’s deployment of armor in Sinai worries Israel
Israel is concerned about the deployment of Egyptian armor in a push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, saying the vehicles' entry wasn't coordinated and is in violation of a 1979 peace treaty, an Israeli official said on Monday.
Egypt to move tanks into Sinai for first time since 1973
Egypt reportedly is planning to introduce tanks in the Sinai for the first time since the 1973 war with Israel.
August 14, 2012
Mimicking Al-Qaida, militant threat grows in Sinai
They came in Toyota pick-up trucks, dozens of heavily armed masked men, firing machineguns and waving the black flag of Al-Qaida as terrified residents and police huddled indoors, and then disappeared again, melting away into the mountains and remote villages of Egypt's Sinai desert.
Egypt’s Islamist president removes top generals
Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi dismissed Cairo's two top generals on Sunday and cancelled a military order that curbed his powers, in a dramatic move that could free him of some of the restrictions of military rule.Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi dismissed Cairo's two top generals on Sunday and cancelled a military order that curbed his powers, in a dramatic move that could free him of some of the restrictions of military rule.
Israel allows Egypt to use ‘terror-fighting’ gunships in Sinai
Israel's Cabinet reportedly has agreed to allow Egypt to use gunships in the Sinai peninsula.
Egypt media say six Sinai “terrorists” held after attack
The Egyptian army has captured six people it regards as "terrorists" in Sinai after an attack on a police station earlier this week that killed 16 border guards near the border with Israel, a military source told state media on Friday.
Little sign of battle in Egypt’s Sinai region
Egypt poured troops into North Sinai on Thursday in an offensive meant to tackle militants in the Israeli border region, but residents were skeptical, saying they had seen no sign of anyone being killed in what they described as a "haphazard" operation.
Egypt’s first Sinai air strike since ‘73 war kills 20 terrorists
Egyptian troops have launched the largest operation in the Sinai desert peninsula since the 1972 war with Israel, killing at least 20 terrorists believed to be responsible for Sunday’s attack on an Egyptian border post that left 16 soldiers dead. Six of the attackers died when they drove across the Israeli border in a commandeered armored car and were hit by Israeli air missiles.
Israel dismisses accusation of involvement in Egypt attack
Israel on Monday dismissed a claim by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that it was in any way involved in a deadly attack on a police station in Sinai a day earlier in which 16 policemen were killed.
Israel ‘can only rely on itself,’ Netanyahu says after Sinai attack
Israel and Egypt have a common interest in keeping the border between them safe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday during a tour of the site of Sunday’s deadly attack in which Sinai-based gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police officers and injured at least seven.
Barak calls Sinai attack, border infiltration a ‘wake-up call’ for Egypt
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called a terrorist attack in the Sinai that killed at least 15 Egyptian soldiers a “wake-up call” for Egypt.
The long-term damage of the Sinai situation
Egypt holds first round of voting in presidential election
Egypt is holding its first round of balloting for its first presidential election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak during an uprising more than a year ago.
Editorial Cartoon: The New Face of Sinai
A Passover surprise
Rocket from Sinai strikes Eilat
A long-range Grad rocket fired from the Egypt hit a near a residential area in Eilat.
Israel on alert for attack as Netanyahu vows to strike Gaza terrorists
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel remains on alert against an attack from Sinai despite killing the terrorist leader that was planning an attack from there -- an assassination that has led to a barrage of rockets raining down on southern Israel from Gaza by terrorist groups.
Red Cross discusses prisoner swap with Israel, Hamas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has offered to facilitate the exchange of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners and is discussing this with Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, an ICRC spokesman said on Thursday.
Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel attacked for sixth time
A pipeline that carries gas from Egypt to Israel was attacked for the sixth time in less than a year.
Israelis barred from Sinai over terror threat
Israelis have been barred from entering Egypt's Sinai Peninsula via the Taba crossing due to serious and credible terror threats.
Israel says Gaza gets anti-plane arms from Libya
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday.
Report: Israel to allow more Egyptian troops in Sinai
Israel will allow more Egyptian troops to be deployed in the Sinai in order to keep order in the increasingly chaotic peninsula, according to a report in The Economist.
Israel, Gaza militants agree to halt fire
Israel and Islamic Jihad militants agreed to halt fire on Friday after days of deadly cross border violence, a Palestinian official said.
Gaza rocket lands in Egypt as border tension simmers
A woman was injured by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into the Egyptian town of Rafah on Wednesday, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported, as tension simmered in the region after a spate of cross-border violence.
UPDATE: Gunmen kill at least 7 in Israel; Israel targets Gaza militants
Gunmen killed seven people in southern Israel on Thursday in attacks along the Egyptian border and Israel responded with an air strike in the Gaza Strip that killed six Palestinians, including the leaders of a group it blamed for the violence.
Egypt again halts gas supply to Israel following explosion
Egypt has again shut off its gas supply to Israel following an explosion on its pipeline in the Sinai. The explosion early Wednesday morning rocked the area and caused 65-foot flames, according to reports. While Egyptian officials would not speculate on the cause of the blast, a security source told Reuters that an unidentified armed gang attacked the pipeline.
Report: African migrants abused, ransomed in Sinai
African migrants trying to cross from Egypt into Israel have been abused and held for ransom by Bedouin smugglers in the Sinai Desert, according to a new report.
Israel allowing more troops in Sinai
Israel reportedly has agreed to allow more Egyptian troops into the Sinai, which under a 1979 peace treaty is to remain demilitarized. About 700 troops reportedly have been moved into the Sinai in recent days, joining the 800 that were sent in at the end of January, also with Israel's permission. The deployment is temporary, according to reports.
IDF secures Egypt border fearing terrorist infiltration from Sinai
In light of the unrest in Egypt, Israel has been preparing for the possibility that tens of thousands of African asylum-seekers in that country could flood across the border into Israel in fear of their lives.
The Brothers Wolpe talk bioethics at Sinai Temple
On Sunday morning, Dec. 12, near the end of his weekend-long stay as a scholar-in-residence at Sinai Temple, bioethicist Dr. Paul Root Wolpe was asked by Rabbi David Wolpe to give a few quick responses to some of the most challenging contemporary bioethical dilemmas. “No,” Dr. Wolpe replied, provoking laughter from the nearly 300 people in attendance. “I can’t give quick responses; I’m a Wolpe.” Dr. Wolpe is professor of bioethics and Jewish bioethics at Emory University as well as senior bioethicist for NASA and the first national bioethics adviser to Planned Parenthood of America. He had already delivered two talks to his brother’s congregation on Shabbat, so one highlight of Sunday’s breakfast was a picture-heavy PowerPoint presentation, which included quite a few photographs of genetically and otherwise engineered animals. He started with hybrids like the beefalo, the zorse (zebra-horse), the cama (camel-lama), the geep (sheep-goat) and, much to the delight of fans of “Napoleon Dynamite,” the liger (lion-tiger). Later, he showed pictures of mice, kittens, pigs, puppies and monkeys that, thanks to some genetic material from jellyfish and deep-sea coral, had been engineered to glow in the dark.
Egypt nabs terror cell targeting Israelis
Egypt arrested a terror cell planning an attack on Israeli tourists in Sinai, the Ma'an Palestinian news agency reported.
Egypt on alert for Hamas terrorists
Egypt was on high security alert after receiving information that Hamas terrorists were planning to infiltrate into the Sinai and launch rockets at Israel.
Arms cache for Gaza uncovered in Sinai
A large arms cache allegedly intended to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip was discovered in the Sinai Desert.
Egyptian security forces found the cache, including 100 anti-aircraft missiles and other explosives, early Thursday morning, according to Egyptian reports cited in the Israeli press.
Blessing Management
Parshat Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) This week's Torah portion describes the bountiful blessings promised to our people by God, if (ekev) we obey the laws of Torah.
VIDEO: The Ten Commandments according to an ‘action figure’ that speaks
Action figure recites a Christian version of the Top Ten Commandments
VIDEO: A Sacred Duty—A Jewish response to threats to our environment
A Major Documentary on Current Environmental Threats and How Jewish Teachings Can Be Applied in Responding to These Threats.
Shavuot 5768: Creative twists fill large field of holiday events
"My sense is that people gathering in synagogue for all or part of the night is expanding," said Rabbi Mark Diamond, executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. "A lot of great learning takes place in the Los Angeles Jewish community on Shavuot."
Shavuot 5768: Multitude of views from majestic Mount Sinai
What prompted Agnon, a master of original writing, to create an anthology of rabbinic texts relating to Shavuot? As an author with a deep connection to his religious roots, Agnon related to the experience of Shavuot, a celebration of the centrality of books in Judaism.
Being single at Sinai Temple
Did Moshe Rabbenu meet YHWH at Sinai, or was he just tripping?
Briefs: Sacha Borat Cohen scores at Golden Globes; Former Carter Center official at Temple Sinai
Briefs
Holy Moses—The Getty’s latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and
The Getty Center's upcoming exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.
I Ate the Whole Thing!
Circuit News.
The Sinai Century
How do you sum up 100 years of history? That's the task of historian Florie Brizel, who was hired by Sinai two years ago to write the history of the shul. She just completed "Sinai Temple: A Centennial History," a narrative that runs more than 200 pages.
Remember Sinai?
Immediately following the Ten Commandments, we read a series of instructions that seem a little out of place: You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make yourselves gods of gold. You need make for me only an earthen altar and bring your sacrifices there, and I shall come and bless you wherever my name is mentioned.
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