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Anti-occupation Jews: Time to Do Some Bible Thumping of Your Own

Haaretz - ‎18 hours ago‎
Right-wingers use Jewish sources to legitimize the occupation. The Hayei Sarah Project aims to break this interpretive monopoly. Is it time for the anti-settlement left to take back the Bible?
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Black Friday 2016 LIVE - Millions of Brits prepare for £2bn shopping bonanza as stores prepare megadeals

The Sun - ‎Nov 24, 2016‎
BRITS are braced for a bumper £2BILLION spending bonanza as retailers slash prices for Black Friday tomorrow. Stores including Amazon, Argos and John Lewis are bracing themselves for the busiest shopping day before Christmas.
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OnePlus 3 Gets Emergency Calling Feature With Incremental OxygenOS 3.2.8 Update

NDTV - ‎3 hours ago‎
OnePlus has started rolling out a new incremental OxygenOS update for the OnePlus 3 smartphone. The OxygenOS 3.2.8 update for the OnePlus 3 brings full-HD (1080p) 60fps video recording and more.
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Rabbis call fires divine punishment, OK shooting Arab arsonists

Ynetnews - ‎4 hours ago‎
Safed's chief rabbi explains Fri. morning that shooting Arab arsonists would have saved the country from its current wave of flames; Rabbi Elyakim Levanon says that fires won't cease until 'Regulation Bill' is passed.

Security footage captures arson attempt

Ynetnews - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Security camerage footage from Ariel shows three men who crossed into a thicket where they apparently used a molotov cocktail to try and start a brushfire; Police are currently searching for the suspects.
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'Moments you can't understand at all'

Arutz Sheva - ‎5 hours ago‎
Arutz Sheva spoke with residents of Beit Meir about the terrifying and chaotic moments during which the community was engulfed in flames.
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Palestinian tries to stab troops in East Jerusalem, is shot dead

The Times of Israel - ‎15 minutes ago‎
Illustrative. A Border Policeman in East Jerusalem's Shuafat refugee camp on September 18, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90). Newsroom.
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Iran state TV: Train collision kills 5; 20 reported injured

Times Colonist - ‎7 hours ago‎
TEHRAN, Iran - A train collision on Friday in northern Iran killed at least five people and injured 20, Iran's state media reported.
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Hunger and desperation: Aleppo siege tests limits of endurance

Channel NewsAsia - ‎2 hours ago‎
As Syria's government presses a fierce assault on eastern Aleppo, its siege is making life ever harder for civilians who being forced to sift through garbage for food and scavenge firewood from bombed-out buildings.
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Shaikh Mohammad leads prayers for Dubai Police Chief Khamis Al Mazeina

gulfnews.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
Lt. General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina died following a heart attack on Thursday night; Shaikh Mohammad leads Friday prayers, to be followed by funeral prayers.
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First American Death in Syria fighting against ISIS

Observer - ‎49 minutes ago‎
The first American casualty in Syria fighting against the Islamic State came on Thanksgiving Day - a reminder of all the heroes in this battle who deserve our utmost gratitude, and a call to live up to the spirit of their sacrifices with an unyielding ...
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Manhunt in France after killing at religious residence

Ynetnews - ‎8 hours ago‎
Woman murdered at retirement home for Catholic missionaries; caretaker bound and gagged; other residents safe; gendarmes cannot say if this was a terrorist act.
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Death toll in Iraq bombing claimed by IS rises to 73

Daily Mail - ‎3 hours ago‎
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) - The death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group rose to 73 on Friday, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims, as Iraqi forces continued to inch closer to the center of the northern city of Mosul in ...
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Strong Kiwi dollar means more holiday money

Stuff.co.nz - ‎50 minutes ago‎
What if you were greeted at every hotel with a 25 per cent off dining voucher or if each airport trip included duty-free freebies?
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Alpari October FX volumes down 3% to $86.1 billion

LeapRate - ‎8 hours ago‎
FX broker Alpari Limited has notified that at the end of October 2016 the trade turnover went slightly down to $86.1 billion with 3% from September's $88.7 billion.
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Stripe's Valuation Nearly Doubles to $9.2 Billion

Wall Street Journal - ‎4 hours ago‎
The most valuable U.S. financial-technology startup is extending its lead. Stripe Inc., whose software is used by businesses to accept and track digital payments, will be valued at $9.2 billion in a new funding round that is being completed, the ...

MOVES-Ring-fencing nudges Lloyds into IB merger

Reuters - ‎7 minutes ago‎
LONDON, Nov 25 (IFR) - Lloyds has moved to streamline its investment-bank in advance of UK ring-fencing rules, by combining its capital and financial markets into a single unit to be led by managing director of capital markets James Garvey, according ...

MetaQuotes Unveils Latest MT5 Build, Retooling Graphics Interface

Finance Magnates - ‎1 hour ago‎
MetaQuotes Software Corp has released its latest MetaTrader 5 (MT5) build, which strengthens existing testing modes as well as a graphic retooling of the platform's standard library, part of its latest string of updates facing the utility, per a ...
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ASDA snubs Black Friday for second year in a row

The Sun - ‎4 hours ago‎
Supermarket chain ASDA has pulled out of Black Friday for a second year in a row - instead saying it will focus on “lower prices all year round”.
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Despite No Black Friday Deals, PS4 Pro Is The Logical Holiday Console Choice

Forbes - ‎39 minutes ago‎
It may be too late already as you're marching home with a newly purchased Black Friday console in hand, but I just wanted to chime in with my own thoughts about what system you should consider picking up, even if it's not the on featured in all the ...
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Reform synagogue in central Israel vandalized with threats to Jewish leaders

JNS.org - ‎7 minutes ago‎
The graffiti found Thursday on the Kehilat Raanan Reform synagogue in Ra'anana. Credit: Israel Hayom. (JNS.org) The Kehilat Raanan Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ra'anana was found vandalized Thursday with threatening messages to ...
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8 Lines Written by Anne Frank Fetch $148000 at Auction

New York Times - ‎Nov 23, 2016‎
Jacqueline van Maarsen, Anne Frank's friend, in Amsterdam in 2015. Credit Jerry Lampen/European Pressphoto Agency. In 1970, a Dutch woman named Christiane van Maarsen took out a notebook from her childhood.
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Wonder Boy Michael Chabon Grows Up in 'Moonglow'

Forward - ‎6 hours ago‎
Late in his new novel, “Moonglow,” Michael Chabon describes the surreal, hastily-constructed lunar landscape of a play produced at a mental hospital.
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Government of Canada Announces Support for Survivors of Family Violence

The Province - ‎1 hour ago‎
TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2016 /CNW/ - Approximately one in three women in Canada experience partner violence. Recognizing this as a serious health issue, the Government of Canada remains committed to ending family violence and all forms of gender-based ...
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Microbes Might Explain Why Many Diets Backfire

The Atlantic - ‎1 hour ago‎
Like ​The Atlantic? Subscribe to ​the Daily​, our free weekday email newsletter. In 2009, Danny Cahill won the eighth season of The Biggest Loser, a reality TV show in which contestants compete to lose the most weight.
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Nigeria: Push to End HIV/Aids By 2030

AllAfrica.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
As Nigeria continues to push for an end to HIV/AIDS cases through effective screening and treatment, Paul Obi writes on efforts targeted at ending the scourge by 2030.
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Vaping in bars, cigarette sales to teens to become illegal in the District

Washington Post - ‎17 hours ago‎
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser plans to sign some of the nation's toughest anti-tobacco laws that will increase the smoking age to 21 and regulate electronic cigarettes like traditional ones, adding the District to the scores of jurisdictions trying to ...
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