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Here’s How Cycling Can Slow Down the Aging Process
New research finds that older adults who bike can reverse muscle decline and keep their immune systems strong. This article appeared originally in Bicycling Magazine, authored by Allison Goldstein. It might not grant eternal youth, but cycling, scientists have found, can slow the aging process and keep your muscles and immune system healthy well into…
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The Hebrew Radical ‘Sook’ (שך/סך) as It Relates to the Birth of Yeshua (ישוע)
Another Christmas has come and gone. The decorations that adorned our house – the creche in the foyer; stuffed cloth gingerbread men keeping strategically placed Santa Clauses company; colored lights strung along the two sides of the staircase that meet the guests arriving for a progressive dinner-and-carols singalong; similarly-strung lights on the hutch in the…
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Macron Expresses Frustration over IDF Hit on HAMAS Leadership Official, early January 2024
Jerusalem-based Russian-language TV9 Israeli News, on January 3, 2024, carried an article on its internet site by journalist and editor, Inna Levitskaya, which had originally appeared in the French newspaper Parisian. The article concerned a telephone call French President Emmanuel Macron made to Israeli authorities after an Israeli Defense Forces strike that eliminated the deputy…
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Psalm XI: For the Leader of Music, A Psalm of David – Assurance of Yahwah’s Love in Times of Trouble
This study of Psalm XI is based on my translation reflecting the Psalm’s syntax and punctuation. Franz Delitzsch’s commentary on the Psalms has been used as a reference. ביהוה |חסיתי איך תאמרו לנפשי נודיו הרכמ וצפור In Yahwah | I have trusted how will you (pl.) say to my soul flee* your (pl.) mountain bird[s…
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Muslim Immigration and Antisemitism: Germany’s Elephant in the Room No One Wants to Talk About, Late December 2023
The below opinion piece was published in the Jewish Russian-language internet news source 9, located in Jerusalem, which concentrates on news relating primarily to Israel. The article originally appeared in the Jewish Russian-language internet-based monthly newspaper European Panorama, located in Berlin, Germany, which sees as its mission to inform “those who are interested in the…
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Book Review: God Was Not In The Fire – The Search For A Spiritual Judaism by Daniel Gordis
I began studying Biblical Hebrew seriously when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced a hiatus from the daily requirements of work and other mandatory activities. This enabled me to devote more time to other pursuits, one of which was the desire to gain a level of proficiency in biblical Hebrew, the primary language in which the Old…
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Israel-Hamas War: Egyptian Author/Investigative Journalist Calls for Annihilation of Hamas, mid-December 2023
The following is an article written on December 18, 2023, by Inna Levitskaya, a journalist and editor at Channel 9 Israel, a Russian-language TV channel located in Israel. Levitskaya’s article was the product of portions of an interview conducted with Dalia Ziada by the Telegram channel Humans for Israel and excerpts from Ziada’s Wikipedia page.…
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Death of Turkish Parliamentarian Spurs Torrent of Responses to Recent X Post of Israeli Foreign Ministry Official, mid-December 2023
The Turkish e-newspaper Ekonomim [My Economy], on December 14, reported that the X (formerly Twitter) post of an Israeli Foreign Ministry official had been retweeted in the wake of the sudden death of Turkish member of Parliament, Hasan Bitmez. “Following the news of the death of Saadet [Felicity] Party Member of Parliament (MP), who represented…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Germany Warned to Expect Consequences of Supporting Israel; Undercurrent of Radical Islam Simmers, early December 2023
Senior reporter for the German-language newspaper, Welt am Sonntag (The World on Sunday), Per Hinrichs, on December 1, 2023, wrote an opinion piece, “Risk of Attack: Islamism has finally come to our everyday lives.” Hinrich’s article was spurred by news that local police had foiled an attack planned by two ‘Islamists’ targeting a Christmas market;…