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…Commentary Israel Under Growing Existential Threat Denver A fter the election, Israel is facing a panoply of real and potential threats that rival and possibly even exceed those it faced in 1948 during the War of Independence and in 1967 during the Six-Day War. The greatest threat by far is that posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has repeatedly proclaimed Israel as a "cancer" that must be wiped off the face of the Earth. Iran is ...…
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…>> editor's picks A-10-711 °■ BIG R OVK - CLASSICAL NOTES About At 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in the Music Box at the Max M Fisher Music Center in Detroit, Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents Side by Side Quartets, in which the vet- eran American String Quartet (includ- ing violist Daniel Avshalomov and vio- linist Peter Winograd) and the young Aeolus Quartet (including violinist Rachel Shapiro) each will perform and discuss works by c...…
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