Sidon Synagogue Opens its Doors

"Even though I am from a village close to Saida and I know the city pretty well, I didn’t know there was a synagogue there. I did some research and there’s apparently four synagogues in Lebanon, one in Beirut being renovated, one in Sidon and one in Aley. I couldn’t find any reference to the fourth one."

"Mohamed Merah was born in Toulouse.

He died in Toulouse.

In 2008, he attempted to join the French army, but was rejected. The motivations for his murders: the French military presence in Afghanistan, and French society’s attacks on Islamic forms of dress."

"Did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood bite more than it can chew when it fielded its own kingmaker Khairat el-Shater to run for president in May, reversing an earlier pledge to stay out of the race?

Only time will tell if it did.

But the contentious decision has already raised eyebrows everywhere as well as alarms both at home and abroad."