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• Religious leaders in Israel unite for a better future

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  JERUSALEM - The scene was stunning. At the Druze shrine of Nebi Shueib, against the backdrop of a gleaming snow-capped Mount Hermon, the green mountains and blue sea of the Galilee, kaffiyed Muslim imams and ulema, moustachioed Druze sheikhs, black-hatted rabbis and Christian clergy in various colourful garb, mingled ...
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• Palestinian children suffer from a lack of appropriate TV programming

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  RAMALLAH - Television penetration in Palestine is nearly 100 percent. Almost every home—no matter how poor the family—has a tube in its sitting room. Television viewership is higher than average amongst Palestinians for two main reasons: Because of the continuing conflict, people feel the need to watch television ...
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• Encountering peace: Change in Gaza is possible

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  JERUSALEM - Thirty-nine young people from Gaza applied to attend a peace education workshop sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) that was held this past weekend in a school in Beit Jala. Thirty-five of them were denied entry by the IDF and did not have the opportunity to join ...
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• How Israelis see Obama

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  WASHINGTON, DC - Perhaps a US president’s approval rating among Israeli citizens is somewhat trivial. After all, Barack Obama’s re-election will be decided in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, not in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Netanya. Nevertheless, the notion persists that a US president’s approval rating in Israel can ...
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• The best of both worlds

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  RAMLA, Israel - For at least two millennia, political and educational philosophers have remained adamant about the pre-eminent place formal schooling holds in shaping the “good” citizen. However, while the place of schools as the single-most important institutional agent for shaping the good citizen remains ...
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• Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendor

  
  Rebuild The City — Authority: 117
  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.-II Corinthians 8:9Thou Who wast rich beyond all splendor, all for loves sake becamest poor ;Thrones for a manger didst surrender, sapphire-paved courts for ...
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• Relationships

  
  Prayer: The Gate — Authority: 111
  Photo by Chrissy Oldham               Heavenly Father, As we gather together this year to celebrate the holidays, we ask your blessings on the relationships we have with others.  Help us let go of the stress and hold onto the joy of being with our friends and our families.  We may not all think ...
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• How to Make Enemies on Health Care (Now even liberals have learned to despise Obamacare)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Barack Obama hoped to unify the nation, and he is making impressive progress toward that goal. Last week, he created common ground between Howard Dean and conservatives. They agree on one thing, which is that the health care reform package produced by the Senate and endorsed by the president richly deserves to be ...
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• Group Determined To Fight Foreclosures, Big Banks

  
  The Foreclosure News — Authority: 145
  Members of Common Ground are determined to reverse the trend of foreclosure filings. They want to do more than spread awareness, they want to take action and their main targets are large national banks.Related posts:California Faith Groups Fight Banks on Foreclosures (Update1) – BloombergBanks Are Slow to Unload ...
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• Cool Ornament Artistry right here in Renton

  
  The Picaroon — Authority: 127
  Displayed at Common Ground Coffee and Cupcakes Cool ornaments from all of your favorite Pez dispensers - Ill bet your tree doesnt have one of those yet. Part nostalgia (we all have our Pez memories) the rest sparkling detail and unique idea, thats what local artist Kristi Hand is all about with her new ...
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• Common Ground Weekly Update-December 17,2009

  
  Rebuild The City — Authority: 117
  As I reflect on the last year I am extremely encouraged about the ways our ministry has grown. Some of the growth has been pretty drastic. Our team has grown from a staff of 3 to a staff of 9 (6 full time staff and 3 part time). We have staff focusing on men’s ministry, women’s ministry, biblical counseling ...
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• Festive Windows

  
  The Picaroon — Authority: 127
  The Eagles Club on Wells Ave.S. has the coolest rotating tree and painted windows to boot. On Sundays you can go have breakfast for $6 and get a closer look at the tree if you like. Frosty the Snowman is warming up with a latte these days at the Common Ground Coffee and Cupcakes on South Third. I ...
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• Column: Gifts for the naughty and nice among us

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 764
  Gifts for the naughty and nice among us Sarah Palin? Check. Tiger Woods? Yep. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? There’s something for them, too. Even Dick Cheney makes his way onto Cal and Bob’s holiday shopping list. Cal Thomas is...
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• I am a Zionist and therefore I am pro-peace: Reflections after J Street’s first national conference

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  MIDDLEBURY, Vermont - Having attended J Street’s first national conference in Washington, DC this October, I want to add my voice to the media controversy surrounding the new pro-Israel, pro-peace organisation. I am writing from the perspective of a student, a connected Jew, a liberal, an Israeli citizen, and an ...
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• Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem a real threat to peace

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  JERUSALEM - In the last few weeks, six more Palestinian families received notices that they are to be evicted from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. And once again we can expect to witness scenes that have by now become almost routine: settlers accompanied by police troops forcefully ...
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• Religious dialogue in the service of citizenship

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  OSLO - Israel recently demanded that its Arab neighbours recognise it as a Jewish state. This is a new claim. In 1948 it was recognised as a state for the Jewish people—which is a different thing. It is easy to understand the demand to recognise Israel as a homeland for Jews. That is, however, not the same as ...
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• Chief Rabbi on mosque arson: This is how the Holocaust began

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  BETHLEHEM – Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger on Monday visited the West Bank village of Yasuf, following an arson attack against the local mosque, allegedly started by settlers, according to Israeli media on Monday. Escorted into Yasuf by the Israeli military and Palestinian police, Metzger said “I came here ...
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• Words of wisdom for Obama

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  BEIRUT - If US President Barack Obama wants to make progress toward his stated goal of achieving a Middle East peace agreement, he can benefit from the valuable advice offered this week by two of America’s closest Arab allies. Both Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and Palestinian Authority President ...
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• The Impossible

  
  Rebuild The City — Authority: 117
  Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God." - Luke 18:27I have had the most amazing two days. I have been challenged , convicted and encouraged with all that the LORD is doing around me, through me and through the hearts of my neighbors. Tonight I was a apart of a womens bible study where we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is the Swiss ban an opportunity?

  
  Common Ground News Service — Authority: 480
  Cairo/London - The recent vote in Switzerland banning the construction of new minarets casts an unnecessary shadow on the remarkable history of tolerance, hospitality and integration that is the true story of Switzerland. It is important to remember, however, that this vote in no way changes the fundamental ...
  2 weeks ago

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