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I have been taking a prescription medication "VESIcare" for a mild case of incontinence or weak bladder.
I was prescribed VESIcare following a series of test by my doctor. However, one of the side effects is severe constipation.
I have used your U-Tract X-TRA CAPS previously and thought perhaps you may have a natural supplement I could try in lieu of the one-a-day VESIcare tablet.
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I have been taking a prescription medication "VESIcare" for a mild case of incontinence or weak bladder.
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I am not aware of any effective natural supplements for a weak bladder, although there are many products on the market.
The effectiveness of herbal products is often anecdotal and not carefully evaluated. You should be cautious when trying a herbal supplement unless there is strong evidence to suggest that it may help with your symptoms - otherwise you may be spending a lot of money on something that may not be better than taking a sugar pill. Talk to your pharmacist.
Have you spoken to your doctor or pharmacist about the constipation?
Psyllium, a natural bulk forming fiber laxative, may be of benefit to you.
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Global tennis icon Rafael Nadal can now add felt to the playing surfaces he's claimed a victory on.
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As a trans man who teaches courses on feminism, gender and women, there is a noticeable difference in how you approach the material, writes Seth.
Are editors manipulating citation scores in order to inflate the status of their publications? Are they corrupting the rankings of scholarly journals?
While any allegations about cheating or other academic chicanery are cause for concern, journal rankings to date continue to offer one rough but useful source of information to a wide variety of audiences.
Journal rankings help authors to answer the omnipresent question "Where to publish?" Tenure review committees also use rankings as evidence for visibility, recognition and even quality in the academic review process, especially for junior candidates. For them, journal ranking becomes a proxy when other, more direct measures of recognition and quality are not available. Given that many candidates for tenure have recent publications, journal rankings become a surrogate measure for the eventual visibility of that research.
Yet it is easy to rely unduly on quantitative rating scores. The trouble arises when journal rankings becomes a stand-in for the quality of the research. In many fields, research quality is a multifaceted concept that is not reducible to a single quantitative metric. For example, imposing a single rule -- for example, that top-quartile journals count as "high-quality" journals while others do not -- assigns more weight to journal rankings than they deserve and generates the temptation to inflate journals' scores.
In an editorial in the journal Research Policy, editor Ben R. Martin voiced his concern that the manipulation of journal impact factors undermines the validity of Thompson/Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR). He concludes that "… in light of the ever more devious ruses of editors, the JIF [journal impact factor] indicator has lost most of its credibility." A journal's impact factor represents the average number of citations per article. The standard, one-year impact factor is calculated by summing up citations to articles published in a journal within the last year, divided by the number of articles published.
I share the suspicion and unease that many academics feel about excessive reliance on journal impact scores for the purposes of academic evaluation and tenure decisions. Yet, while I am not a fan of impact scores calculated over a one-year period, my research on journal rankings leads me to conclude that Martin's concerns are overstated.
The two main sources of manipulation that Martin discusses are coercive citations (whereby editors require authors to add citations to the journal in question) and creating a queue of online articles, which artificially inflates the number of citations per published article. While any intentional manipulation of journal rankings is reprehensible, to date the overall effect of this type of behavior in practice is quite limited. I arrive at this sanguine conclusion after exploring a variety of indexes and data sources in a forthcoming assessment of journals in my own field of sociology.
A clear hierarchy of journals in sociology is evident no matter what data source (Web of Science or Google Scholar) one uses. There is a great degree of commonality across measures in describing this gradient, even though many low-ranked journals are bunched together with quite similar scores. Manipulation of one-year data has not altered the overall picture a great deal (at least not yet) because five-year measures yield very similar rankings. And even to manipulate the one-year impact factor, editors would have to insist that new authors cite the most recently published articles in that journal.
Substantively, I doubt that much manipulation in sociology journals occurs because, first, the raw scores have not inflated over time and second, the relative ranking of more than 100 journals has been quite steady. Individual journals here and there have moved up and down slightly, but these changes are much more readily attributable to changes in the level of scholarly interest in particular subfields and editorial choices than to any individual editor's efforts to game the system.
The main reason I discount concerns about manipulation is that different approaches to journal rankings produce a broadly similar picture of inequality. In my study, I use Google Scholar data to calculate the h-index for journals. This measure focuses on the top-cited articles over an extended time period rather than the average citation in a short time frame. It would not be easy for journal editors to manipulate this measure, even if they were aware of it its use.
Let's take citations to Martin's own journal, Research Policy, as an example. I obtain an h of 246 over the period from 2000 to 2015. That means that 246 articles cited at least 246 times have been published in this journal during this time frame. That is an impressive score, exceeding the visibility of the American Economic Review (h=227 over the same time period) and the American Sociological Review (h=162). (I calculated all figures with A. W. Harzing's 2015 Publish or Perish software using Google Scholar data.)
The h statistics just cited reflect the remarkable visibility of these leading journals. It would be quite difficult to develop strategies to artificially generate enough citations to significantly alter those scores. I prefer the use of h as a measure because it attempts to capture the skewed nature of scientific scholarship. Yet the fact remains that the overall hierarchy of journals is broadly similar whether the h-index or the conventional impact factor is used.
In their 2012 study, Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong present data of concern regarding the prevalence of coercive citations. The pattern of coercive citation was particularly pronounced in lower-tier journals, and especially in the field of business and management. Yet again, I doubt that the overall journal regime is appreciably altered by dubious editorial gaming stratagems. Wilhite and Fong identify eight journals in which this practice might be common enough to matter (more than 10 reports of coercive rankings), but none of those journals has made its way into the top tier in the field (as measured in the JCR standings). In other words, by dint of a relentless and long-term commitment to manipulation, some third-quartile journals might be able to inch their way into the second quartile by manipulating scores, but that is unlikely to alter the overall contours of the field.
If a significant group of low-visibility journals undertook a major effort to increase their citations, that would make them as a group harder to distinguish from the top journals. In the field of sociology, there is no indication that middle- and lower-tier journals are narrowing the distance from the most frequently cited journals. Indeed, this enduring gap is itself interesting, in that it suggests that search engines are not increasing the visibility of journals to which few individuals subscribe.
At the same time, we need to remember that journal rankings serve as only a rough proxy for visibility and recognition of individual papers. In other words, articles published within the same journal will vary in how often they are cited. In my analysis of 140 sociology journals over the period from 2010 to 2014, most of the 10 most frequently cited papers were not published in the top-ranked journals. Thus, substantial variability in visibility (citations) within journals coexists with broadly stable patterns of inequality between journals.
In addition, the list of top-cited articles is largely impervious to self-citation. It is simply too difficult to cite oneself enough to vault one's research into this echelon on visibility. For example, the top 10 cited journal articles in sociology from 2010 to 2014 had 400 or more citations. To catapult one's own paper into this citation stratosphere would require publishing hundreds of papers in just a few years. No one could possibly publish frequently enough and cite themselves regularly enough to affect inclusion in the list of top-cited papers. And anyone prolific enough to implement such a strategy would not need to game the system.
Authors have a natural desire to seek outlets that will enhance the visibility of their research. In the field of sociology, that involves a choice of pursuing the most selective generalist journals, the top journals in each specialty area within the field, the second-tier generalist journals and then other remaining specialty outlets and interdisciplinary journals. The use of journal ranking data may be marginally useful in informing such choices. Other important factors include each journal's particular focus, its selectivity, turnaround time, policies regarding second and third rounds of revisions, and so on.
Journal rankings are likely to remain with us because such rankings are of interest to so many parties, as research by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder suggests, even while their value is likely to remain contested. Perhaps a clearer recognition of the imprecision inherent in journal rankings will mean that they will be used judiciously, as a complement rather than a substitute for important and difficult academic evaluations. And perhaps the use of a variety of different journal indexes will reduce the temptation to game the system and redirect efforts back toward selecting high-quality research for consideration by the scholarly community.
Jerry A. Jacobs is professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and former editor of the American Sociological Review.
When search committees promote a one-size-fits-all model of successful job interviewees, they erase or undervalue rich professional experiences, argues Ligia Mihut.
The story is told of how, during an interview at a film festival in the 1960s, someone asked the avant-garde director Jean-Luc Godard, "But you must at least admit that a film has to have a beginning, a middle and an end?" To which Godard replied, "Yes, but not necessarily in that order."
Touché! Creative tampering with established patterns of storytelling (or with audience expectations, which is roughly the same thing) is among the basic prerogatives of artistic expression -- one to be exercised at whatever risk of ticket buyers demanding their money back. Most of the examples of such tampering that Robert L. Belknap considers in Plots (Columbia University Press) are drawn from literary works now at least a century old. That we still read them suggests their narrative innovations worked -- so well, in fact, that they may go unnoticed now, taken as given. And the measure of Belknap's excellence as a critic is how rewarding his close attention to them proves.
The late author, a professor of Slavic languages at Columbia University, delivered the three lectures making up Plots in 2011. Belknap's preface to the book indicates that he considered the manuscript ready for publication at the time of his death in 2014. Plots has an adamantine quality, as if decades of thought and teaching were being crystallized and enormously compressed. Yet it is difficult to read the final paragraphs as anything but the author's promise to say a great deal more.
Whether the lectures were offered as the overture to Belknap's magnum opus or in lieu of one, Plots shuttles between narrative theory (from Aristotle to the Russian formalists) and narrative practice (Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, primarily) at terrific speed and with a necessary minimum of jargon. Because the jargon contains an irreducible core of the argument, we might as well start (even though Belknap does not) with the Russian formalists' contrast between fabula and siuzhet.
Each can be translated as "plot." The more or less standard sense of fabula, at least as I learned it in ancient times, is the series of events or actions as they might be laid out on a timeline. The author tweaks this a little by defining fabula as "the relationship among the incidents in the world the characters inhabit," especially cause-and-effect relationships. By contrast, siuzhet is how events unfold within the literary narrative or, as Belknap puts it, "the relationship among the same incidents in the world of the text."
To frame the contrast another way, siuzhet is how the story is told, while fabula is what "really" happened. The scare quotes are necessary because the distinction applies to fiction and drama as well as, say, memoir and documentary film. "In small forms, like fairy tales," Belknap notes, fabula and siuzhet "tend to track one another rather closely, but in larger forms, like epics or novels, they often diverge." (Side note: A good deal of short fiction is also marked by that divergence. An example that comes to mind is "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, where the siuzhet of the narrator's account of what happened and why is decidedly different from the fabula to be worked out by the police appearing at the end of the story.)
Belknap returns to Aristotle for the original effort to understand the emotional impact of a certain kind of siuzhet: the ancient tragedies. An effective drama, by the philosopher's lights, depicted the events of a single day, in a single place, through a sequence of actions so well integrated that no element could be omitted without the whole narrative coming apart. "This discipline in handling the causal relationship between incidents," says Belknap, "produces the sense of inevitability that characterizes the strongest tragedies." The taut siuzhet chronicling a straightforward fabula reconciled audiences to the workings of destiny.
Turning Aristotle's analysis into a rule book, as happened in later centuries, was like forcing playwrights to wear too-small shoes. The fashion could not last. In the second lecture, Belknap turns to Shakespeare, who found another way to work:
"He sacrificed the causal tightness that had served classic drama so well in order to build thematic tightness around parallel plots. Usually the parallel plots involve different social levels -- masters and servants, kings and courtiers, supernatural beings and humans -- and usually the plots are not too parallel to intersect occasionally and interact causally at some level, though never enough to satisfy Aristotle's criterion that if any incident be removed, the whole plot of the play should cease to make sense …. Similarity in plots can be represented as the overlap between two areas, and those areas may be broken down into individual points of similarity, dissimilarity, contrast, etc. Without knowing it, a Shakespearean audience is making such analyses all the time it watches a play, and the points of overlap and contrast enter their awareness."
It's not clear whether Belknap means to include the modern Shakespearean audience -- possibly not, since contemporary productions tend to trim down the secondary plots, if not eliminate them. But the Bard had other devices in hand for complicating fabula-siuzhet arrangements -- including what Belknap identifies as "a little-discussed peculiarity of Shakespearean plotting, the use of lies." In both classical and Shakespearean drama, there are crucial scenes in which a character's identity or situation is revealed to others whose confusion or deception has been important for the plot. But whereas mistakes and lies "are about equally prevalent" in the ancient plays, Shakespeare has a clear preference: "virtually every recognition scene is generated primarily out of a lie, not an error."
In a striking elaboration of that point, Belknap treats the lie as a kind of theatrical performance -- "a little drama, with at least the rudiments of a plot" -- that often "express[es] facts about the liar, the person lied to or the person lied about." The lie is a manipulative play within a play in miniature. And in Hamlet, at least, the (literal) play within a play is the prince's means of trying to force his uncle to tell the truth.
Now, such intricate developments at the level of form also involve changes in how the writer and the audience understand the world (and, presumably, themselves). The Shakespearean cosmos gets messier than that of classical drama, but loosening the chains of cause and effect does not create absolute chaos. The motives and consequences of the characters' actions make manifest their otherwise hidden inner lives. To put it another way, mutations in siuzhet (how the story is told) reflect changes in fabula (what really happens in the world) and vice versa. Belknap suggests -- tongue perhaps not entirely in cheek -- that Shakespeare was on the verge of inventing the modern psychological novel and might have, had he lived a few more years.
By the final lecture, on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Belknap has come home to his area of deepest professional interest. (He wrote two well-regarded monographs on The Brothers Karamazov.) Moving beyond his analysis of parallel plots in Shakespeare, he goes deep into the webs of allusion and cross-referencing among Russian authors of the 19th century to make the case that Crime and Punishment contains a much more deliberate narrative architecture than it is credited with having. (Henry James's characterization of Russian novels as "fluid puddings" undoubtedly applies.)
He even makes a bid for the novel epilogue as being aesthetically and thematically integral to the book as a whole. Other readers may find that argument plausible. I'll just say that Plots reveals that with Belknap's death, we lost a critic and literary historian of great power and considerable ingenuity.
As educators, we need to bring a far greater understanding of how the brain works to our conversations on teaching, learning and student success in higher education, argues Karen Costa.
Everyone knows how hard it is for new Ph.D.s, especially for new Ph.D.s in the humanities, to find tenure-track jobs, and everyone knows about the outrageous working conditions faced by contingent faculty. The problem with these problems, however, is that they are one problem we have come to think of as two. It is a labor problem of epic proportions -- at a time when labor is having its own problems.
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone proclaim that there are "no jobs" in the humanities, I'd be able to buy every graduate student in my department a hot meal. Just this month, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published the latest addition to the literature on the decline in jobs for faculty in the humanities. Yet the truth is that there are jobs: lots and lots of jobs. The prevalence of MOOCs notwithstanding, classrooms across the nation still need to be staffed by instructors. The problem is that most of these are per-course assignments that pay horribly and offer few benefits, if any. Demand for instructors remains high. It is the egregious working conditions and compensation for those who instruct the majority of our students at the majority of our universities and colleges that are at the heart of the matter.
The consequences of thinking about the plights of graduate students and adjuncts as if they were separate problems are many and insidious. Because there are "no jobs," many people advise their brightest undergraduates not to enter academe. It is actually considered irresponsible not to try to dissuade the young and talented from following in our footsteps. Some people applaud the shutdown of graduate programs in the humanities at institutions of lesser prestige and the downsizing of elite programs because there are "too many Ph.D.s."
While I do understand the desire to protect students from the anguish of not finding tenure-track jobs, culling the competition is a mistaken and destructive approach to the problem of perceived scarcity. Instead, we need to turn our attention to the ways our institutions hire, compensate and retain educators. This is a labor problem that can be resolved -- but it will not be resolved by thinning our own ranks.
The consequences of our bifurcated thinking about graduate students and contingent faculty can be subtle, as long as you are not an adjunct instructor, in which case they are toxic. Adjunct faculty members, for example, are generally hired in a completely different manner than the full-time faculty members whom we groom our graduate students to aspire to be. Whereas the hiring process for tenure-stream faculty most commonly calls for the input of several or all members of a department as well as the approval of umpteen levels of an administration, it is customary for department heads alone to hire adjunct instructors, sometimes sight unseen. By conducting our adjunct hiring sub rosa, as it were, we reinforce the split between the "real" jobs we prepare our students to compete for and the invisible (but all-too-real) jobs of people who are often teaching alongside them.
The message these vastly divergent hiring practices send to graduate students and contingent faculty alike is that much of the teaching performed in their midst is somehow something to be ashamed of (and that teaching doesn't really matter). Everything about the manner in which we select adjunct faculty suggests that they occupy the status of a necessary evil -- the less spoken of, the better.
The Normalization of a Two-Tiered System
This rotten system arose on our watch. How did we let it happen? Speaking for myself, I was so busy trying to find a job after completing my doctorate in 1997 that I didn't pay much attention to the bigger picture. All I could think about was my own situation. Even though I understood that the odds of getting a tenure-track position were against me, I spent my time trying everything I could think of to improve my chances. Getting a job was up to me, I told myself. Oblivious to the highly individualistic ethos implanted in me in graduate school, I figured that if I was good enough, I would succeed. I did not think of the many other graduates who were also desperate to find tenure-track jobs -- except for when I wanted to make myself feel better about the jobs I didn't get.
I found a job -- a three-year term position that turned into a six-year term position -- whereupon I devoted myself to becoming even more irresistible as a job candidate the next time I had to go on the market. When I finally got an assistant professorship at the institution that employs me today, my thoughts turned to getting tenure.
It's embarrassing to admit this, but even though I disapproved of the treatment of contingent faculty, I just wasn't paying attention to the way the naturalization of their exploitation was taking place concurrently with my own professionalization. I never thought of myself as having any say in the matter: without a stable position from which to voice my opposition, I just looked on as administrations chipped and hacked away at humanities programs across the country, cutting costs by depleting programs of their tenure lines and replacing them with adjunct slots. Like most people I knew in the humanities, I felt helpless to do anything about the seemingly irreversible decline of the profession.
No one asked me or my fellow graduates how we felt about the adjunctification of the professoriate as we were trying to claw our way into permanent positions. But no one ever does ask you about such things. The normalization of the two-tiered system just manages to steal up on you, and suddenly, you've got tenure in an industry dominated by massive exploitation, denial, resurgent elitism and magical thinking. I am pretty sure that most tenured and tenure-track faculty do not approve of the current condition of adjunct workers, but I am absolutely certain that even those who don't think about adjunctification do feel terrible about the lack of decent employment prospects for their own graduate students. Relinking these problems will allow us to see clearly this dilemma for what it is: a labor problem.
Of late, adjunct faculty members have bravely come together in unions and affinity groups that are creative and ambitious in character. Such organizations as the New Faculty Majority have formed nonprofit and lobbying entities to unite adjuncts and broadcast their plight to the public at large. Graduate students have united to form unions and political action groups of their own. And yet tenure-track, and more significantly, tenured faculty have yet to form a national organization dedicated to resolving this problem. Why is that the case? Why is it that those of us who occupy relatively privileged positions are the readiest to accept that this is just the way things are?
Calling on Tenured Faculty
The American Association of University Professors has focused valiantly on these issues for a long time, but the AAUP cannot do it alone. It's time for those of us who have relatively secure positions to speak out in our communities and on a national level. Tenured professors have considerably more leverage than graduate students or adjunct instructors in our institutions; it's up to us to come together to put pressure on our administrations to make the many invisible positions we fill under the table into "real" jobs. We need to do it for all of our students, present and future, undergraduate and graduate, academe bound and otherwise. If many of us are already working under austerity conditions at our institutions and feel our own jobs imperiled, so much the more reason to act now to secure a living wage for all who teach at the university level. It is in the interest of all faculty members to band together to demand a future for higher education.
So how can we begin to change this situation? Unionization is an obvious answer and an important part of the solution, but when the interests of the full-time faculty are pitted against those of the part-time faculty, with each group represented by a different union, it is hard to reach any sort of common ground. When the full-time and adjunct faculty are represented by the same bargaining unit, adjunct faculty do not have an easy time getting support from their tenure-stream colleagues, in large part because of the great difference in the modes of hiring and reviewing that I discussed above. As long as we continue to accept this two-tiered labor model, there is only so much that unions can do. (A rare exception was the strike two years ago at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where full-time faculty walked out in solidarity with their adjunct colleagues.)
The labor movement we will need to assure the future of higher education requires action on the local and national fronts. Tenured faculty must get involved, and vocally involved, at every level of governance at our institutions. We must vigilantly attend and participate in every kind of meeting open to us that bears any relation whatsoever to mission, staffing, funding and budgeting priorities -- and demand representation when such meetings are closed to us. We must insist, loudly and incessantly, on full-time positions in our departments. We might want to experiment with the establishment of a more rigorous screening procedure for hiring contingent faculty so as to draw attention to the need for higher pay to draw and keep the most qualified applicants. We need to write letters, articles, emails, blogs -- anything we can -- about this problem. We need to get creative.
And we need to lobby our elected representatives at the local, state and national levels to address this systemic labor problem. Tuition rates have been skyrocketing across the country at the same time as full-time positions have been slashed; wherever this money is going, it is not being spent on full-time positions. Like increased tuition and student debt, this two-tiered system plays a role in the dynamics of income inequality. Legislators need to reverse the decades-long retreat of state and federal governments from the funding of higher education. Colleges and universities are not going to change their practices unless we put pressure on them from without and from within.
Some people will say it's too late to do anything about this trend. But do we really believe so little in ourselves and in what we do as educators to give up on the future so easily? As long as we keep thinking about the fate of our graduate students as if it were separate from the condition of adjunct labor, we will continue to be complicit in the dismantling of higher education. And this would be tantamount to collective professional suicide. Have we really given this battle our all?
Carolyn Betensky is an associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.
The management skills necessary for success in academe and industry are more similar than they might appear, writes Stephanie K. Eberle.
A memorial, designed after the Sandy Hook shooting, honors teachers from pre-K through 12th grade. Soon, it will add names from higher education.
Jeana Jorgensen give advice to those with scholarly training who are breaking into new areas far afield of traditional academe.
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Do people think it's possible to have a reasonable visit of Tallinn's Old Town on a day trip from Helsinki? And does anyone know how long the ferry ride is over?
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The Old Town in Tallin is quite walkable if you don't mind some steps.
Actually, I thought it was much more interesting than Helsinki.
Could you do it in a day...possibly..but make it a long one and beware of fake amber!
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Yes, the boats take 1 1/2 hours or less to go across. You will find hotels more affordable in Tallinn along with the alcohol and nitelife. I flew from Tallinn to Berlin very cheaply. Try to have lunch in the Old Town--it will give you a chance to rest your feet.
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Large numbers of Finns make day trips to Tallinn every day. There are half a dozen operators with big ships or fast ferries. The old town in Tallinn is an easy walk from the ferry terminals.
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Depends on what you think is reasonable. I spent two nights in Tallinn and definitely need to go back.
There are different means of transport from Helsinki -- ships, cats, and hydrofoils run by different companies, and seasonal. Figure on two hours plus or minus a half hour.
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My general opinion on the matter is that one should never ever try to make to cities in one day.
But I guess you would not have asked the question if it did not appeal to you.
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Police to patrol with residents of Judea-SamariaThe Binyamin council inaugurated a new "integrated policing" program, which will have locals patrolling together with police.
Police Chief: It's natural to suspect EthiopiansSpeaking to the Bar Association, Roni Alshich touches on crime in the Arab, Ethiopian sectors - and what he's doing to take it down.
'Stop fawning over Netanyahu''Netanyahu doesn't care about Judea, Samaria, or fallen soldiers - until you vote against him.'
'Another distancing order served - without cause'Commander of Central Command Roni Numa continues to issue distancing orders without evidence, according to the legal organization Honenu.
UN envoy blasts 'Israeli settlement expansion'UN's Middle East envoy claims Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria is an obstacle to peace. Netanyahu: The envoy is distorting history.
13 Breslav hassidim distanced from Judea-Samaria13 hassidim - mostly teens - who were arrested while praying at the tomb of Yehoshua Ben Nun, have been distanced from Judea-Samaria.
Judea-Samaria firefighters sue for state pensionAfter suing for their rights, the courts ruled the state must serve Judea-Samaria firefighters a pension - like the rest of the country.
Poll: Hamas will win the Palestinian electionsHamas stands neck-and-neck in Judea-Samaria, and wins by a massive margin, in a recent poll conducted ahead of PA elections.
Steinitz blasts Brussels Airlines boycottMinister Yuval Steinitz visits the industrial zone in northern Samaria, blasts Brussels Airlines boycott of Israeli halva.
Cop fined for attacking Samaria residentThe court ordered compensation of 13,000 shekels, after a cop refused to identify himself to a Binyamin security guard - and attacked him.
'Their arrest is unnecessary, and political'Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir claims police have 'political agenda' to infringe upon rights of religious Jews after 32 arrested at Joseph's Tomb.
New commander for the Binyamin regionColonel Yuval Gaz was appointed on Monday as the regional brigade commander of the Binyamin region.
Hypocrites all: What does it mean to be pro-Israel in 2016?Clearly, something beyond our day is being written, nearly like a Biblical new Chapter, with the story of our Jewish people's return to Israel.
'Sovereignty in Judea will promote peace'In visit to Gush Etzion, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein expresses support for initiatives to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria.
Dem who called Yesha Jews 'termites' toured IsraelHank Johnson, who recently compared Jewish communities over the Green Line to 'termites' toured Israel, including Judea and Samaria in May.
Kahlon blocks Yesha fundingFinance Minister shuts down talks with Agriculture Ministry over funding for projects across Judea and Samaria.
Zionist Union MK visits town slated for demolitionMK Eitan Broshi, member of the left-wing Zionist Union, visits Ofra and Amona, hailed as 'true friend' by residents.
Congressman who insulted 'settlers' meets JewsRep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) meets Jewish leaders in Atlanta after apologizing for likening Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to termites.
Minister Shaked expresses support for singerSinger Gali Atari makes clear she won't cancel performance at festival in town of Shiloh in Samaria, despite reports of leftist protests.
Leftist actress recounts her visit to JudeaActress Rivka Michaeli, part of far-left 'B'Tselem' organization, confesses to mixed feelings upon visiting family of Rabbi Michael Mark.
'Settlers' present a new face to the worldEfrat Mayor Oded Revivi makes the case of the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to the world.
Smotrich fought for Judea-Samaria - and wonKnesset is expected to pass a law which would equate Judea-Samaria residents with the rest of Israel in one important area - tax breaks.
Flashback: Congressman afraid island will capsizeRepresentative Hank Johnson of Georgia, who said yesterday that Jewish 'settlers' are like 'termites', has a history of curious statements.
Ga. Dem apologizes for calling 'settlers' termitesGeorgia Democratic Congressman Rep. Hank Johnson acknowledges 'poor choice of words' but fails to issue full apology.
Ben-Gurion favored Judea-Samaria withdrawal?Newly rediscovered footage of a 1968 interview with 1st prime minister shows he was for relinquishing territory for peace, except Jerusalem.
'The threat to Amona is receding'Minister Gila Gamliel speaks about continuing efforts to avert demolition, including readiness to ram through legislation if necessary.
Watch: Jewish embodiment, redemption in Bat AyinFascinating series explores the Jews of Bat Ayin, a Judean hills community in Gush Etzion nestled between Jerusalem and Hevron.
'It's time for sovereignty in Ma'ale Adumim'Bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim officially initiated in what promoters say is the first of many further steps.
Egypt joins in attack on Israeli constructionEgypt says Israel's construction plans in Maale Adumim and in Jerusalem harm the peace process.
Judea and Samaria - it's all in a nameUsing the term "West Bank" is a symptom of our malaise.
'Annex the communities of greater Jerusalem'Minister Yisrael Katz: Israel should promote its own initiative in the region and not capitulate to foreign attempts to impose peace.
State Department blasts Israeli 'land seizures'State Department uses unusually strong language in condemning Israel's plans to build in Maale Adumim and in Jerusalem.
CNN omits Judea and Samaria in report on terrorCNN publishes updated map of places in which terror attacks took place this month, fails to include attacks on Judea and Samaria.
Most Israeli Jews against territorial withdrawalsPeace Index survey shows most Israeli Jews and Arabs support a referendum withdrawing from Judea and Samaria - but agree on little else.
42 'new' building tenders? 'A total farce'Yesha Council head says gov't 'insulting the intelligence' of Judea-Samaria residents by recycling old tenders, inept response to terror.
Glick: Construction is the answer to terror"The power of life will defeat the power of darkness," says MK Yehuda Glick following recent terrorist attacks.
Thousands commemorate Gush Etzion Jewish presenceOz veGaon established two summers ago in memory of the three abducted/murdered youths who became a symbol of national unity.
Dozens protest terror wave as Cabinet convenesDozens gather in Judea and Samaria to protest the series of murderous terrorist attacks over the last few days.
Quartet blasts incitement but also 'settlements'As anticipated, Middle East Quartet criticizes both Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria as well as the PA's incitement to terror.
Quartet won't brand 'settlements' as 'illegal'Senior Israeli official claims victory over upcoming International Quartet report, which won't hand legal 'weapon' to Palestinians.
French municipality votes to boycott IsraelBondy, a municipality located near Paris, passes a motion declaring a boycott of Israeli "settlement goods".
MK Yogev praises security forcesJewish Home MK and other members of Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee visit Judea and Samaria communities.
Father defies 'undemocratic' order to send off sonParents protest against unexplained orders for 15-year-old to leave his home.
Officials: 'Nothing new' in Quartet reportEuropean officials say Quartet report expected to criticize Israel will not include any criticism that hasn't been sounded in the past.
Trump 'could support annexing Judea and Samaria'Trump adviser David Friedman believes Republican presidential candidate would support Israel annexing parts of Judea and Samaria.
Herzog sells the Brooklyn Bridge - againIsrael can keep the Western Wall – everything else must go.
Gush Etzion head welcomes additional budgetDavidi Perl says government decision on additional budget to Judea and Samaria is the right thing to do.
'Resilience of Judea-Samaria a national interest''The resilience of the resident of Judea and Samaria are a primary national interest'; MKs, ministers hail emergency budget.
Gov't to crack down on illegal Arab constructionCabinet expected to approve financial assistance to Judea and Samaria communities, tighter law enforcement in Arab sector.
IDF imposes closure on Judea-SamariaPalestinian Arab entry into Israel will not be allowed during Shavuot with the exception of humanitarian cases.
How many Arabs live in Judea-Samaria? No one knowsPalestinian Authority statistics impossible to independently verify - while Knesset subcommittee finds the IDF has no idea at all.
Yesha top Shabbat destination for haredi studentsBut growing connections between haredi yeshiva students and national-religious towns in Judea and Samaria have some in haredi world worried.
Housing Minister: Government isn't buildingConstruction and Housing Minister Yoav Galant admits the government's policy is not to build in Judea and Samaria.
Government to upgrade Judea-Samaria checkpointsIsraeli government to spend $78 million on upgrading checkpoints between the PA-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria and Israel.
PA claims 6.3 million live in 'Palestine'Report by Palestinian Authority suggests 12.4 million Palestinians worldwide, equal number of Jews and Arabs between river and sea.
Herzog demands official building freezeNegotiations to expand coalition gaining momentum as Herzog looks to win over support within party, extract concessions from Netanyahu.


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