Girls go mild in Israeli wartime drama
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In "Close to Home," a film  now receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's IFC  Center, two 18-year-old girls prowl the streets, making small  talk about their lives and loves, taking time out along the way  to talk on their cell phones, smoke, window shop and indulge in  some snacks.
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A view of Upper East Side girls hits close to home.
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An Israeli film that sparked a  diplomatic row with Egypt suggests an Israeli army pursuit of  retreating Egyptians in the 1967 war was unnecessary but does  not say Israeli troops may have killed prisoners.
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A new documentary examines the alternating periods of acceptance, achievement and virulent discrimination faced by Jews.
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Israeli soldiers returning from the front in Lebanon talk of battling an intelligent, well-prepared and ruthless guerrilla army whose fighters don't seem to fear death.
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Gravely injured in an Israeli missile attack, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl is at the center of a fight over whether Israel should continue to provide treatment.
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Al-Madinah Theater was supposed to show art films this summer. Instead it has become a home to scores of refugees, and a cultural oasis where their children can act, draw and watch movies.
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It is the High Holidays, the time of year when Jews are commanded to have second thoughts. Accordingly, in Israel, it is at this time of year that, in taking an honest look at themselves, their actions and
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JERUSALEM -- It looks like Sarah Jessica Parker is too sexy for some Israelis' tastes.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber is the  unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as  an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the  Middle East.
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Last summer's truce has done little to remove the Hizballah military threat on Israel's northern border, and that may soon become intolerable to the Jewish state
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In diplomacy, silence can speak as loudly as the noisiest protest. When Israel announced plans to build 1,001 new homes in the West Bank, the silence from Washington echoed around the Middle East like a rifle shot.
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This modest documentary examines the lives of a group of transsexual Philippine immigrants who work as home attendants for elderly Israelis and also perform in Tel Aviv nightclubs.
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Amnesty says women and girls are being targeted in wars while the authorities do little or nothing to prevent it.
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BANI NAIM, West Bank -- Of the many troubles that the economic slide has brought to this town on the edge of the Judean Desert, Jihad Manassrah saw none more threatening than the growing number of single women walking in prim pairs through its narrow streets.
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LOS ANGELES -- ''Baghdad Girl" fills the pink pages of a Web log with photos that show a skinny, dark-eyed teenager hugging her cats and classroom essays beginning with sentiments such as: ''Childhood is a beautiful stage in our life."
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Israeli directors are working harder to fit lifelike characters around bigger themes of sexual and religious politics in their films.