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The entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a very divisive topic in contemporary American society.Religious preference, ethnicity, political affiliation and social status often define and pervade the deep rifts that characterize this 60-year-old dispute.
In line with international protests on the issue, the controversial attacks in the Gaza Strip have sparked reactions from UF students on both sides of the spectrum.
In 2003, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, left their friends and families in New York and Israel to run the Chabad house in Mumbai, India.
Finally, they are gone.
Nothing brews a sense of camaraderie like the largest, most diverse sampling of beer in town.
Two partisan UF student groups on campus are teaming up to inform voters of their chosen candidate's policies by hosting a series of debates sponsored by various student organizations until the early voting period begins on Oct. 20.
Bands come and go in Gainesville with the four-year cycle of students filtering through the college town.
Brandon Sack, Guest Columnist
Stephen Cypen said it took him about 30 seconds after seeing a letter from UF\'s Documentary Institute to make the decision to donate $200,000 for an upcoming film about a Holocaust victim.
Last week, over 100 countries met in Dublin, Ireland, to sign an agreement banning the use of cluster bombs, weapons invented by the Soviet Union during World War II. Cluster bombs are large single bombs that release a number of "bomblets" over a vast area and are usually intended for anti-personnel use.
The Alligator was founded in 1906 as The University News, which was an independent, student-owned newspaper created to serve the University of Florida when it opened in Gainesville. In 1912, the newspaper became a part of the University of Florida administration, and was renamed the Florida Alligator.
Despite dreary weather, festivities for the ninth annual Lag B'Omer barbecue at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center were lively Thursday night.The center combined the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer with the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, celebrating with a kosher barbecue, pony rides, face painting, crafts and live music from the Gainesville Chutzpa Band. Rabbi Berl Goldman said about 150 people attended the celebration and estimated that $300 was raised from ticket sales.Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the lives of sages Rabbi Akiva, who promoted Jewish unity during the Roman occupation of Israel, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who revealed the mystical secrets of the Torah, called Kabbalah.The holiday, celebrated on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover, also represents a break in the mourning period between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague that affected Akiva's disciples.In Israel, thousands of Jews march through the streets in parades and demonstrations during the holiday.
Obama is selling himself as the president to settle the peace, not continue the war. Yet some of the senator's recent comments suggest he has far less of an interest in peace than in popularity. In an Associated Press interview from July 2007, Obama suggested that even the likelihood of genocide was insufficient grounds for retaining an American presence in Iraq. "If that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now - where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife - which we haven't done." Obama is implying America should bear as much responsibility for the security of citizens in a country we do not occupy as one we do. That is, none at all.
Prominent Israeli college professor and sociologist Eva Etzioni-Halevy lectured to more than 100 students Monday night on the split between religious and secular Jews.
Yom huledet same'ach - that's "happy birthday," for those who don't speak Hebrew.
I, like many across the country, was deeply moved by Sen. Barack Obama's speech yesterday. However, despite all of the media hoopla, I am distressed that there has not been any public debate about problems with the speech.
With increasing frequency, I am beset by excruciating reminders of the world's inexorable descent into pure insanity.
Every time Dr. Richard P. Schmidt brought fresh strawberries to his synagogue, the fragrance filled the building. The smell of strawberries will be missed but never forgotten, Rabbi David Kaiman said.
The Alligator was founded in 1906 as The University News, which was an independent, student-owned newspaper created to serve the University of Florida when it opened in Gainesville. In 1912, the newspaper became a part of the University of Florida administration, and was renamed the Florida Alligator.
We all have one to shop for - the friend who happens to be an über-finicky music fan. Here are five holiday gift ideas for the snob who wants a more in-depth present than the hottest Soulja Boy single on iTunes:
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