Asma Ali Zain
By Asma Ali Zain
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News A blind Jewish Michigan Supreme Court justice was stuck in Dubai en route to Israel. He stayed there for months.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (JTA) — On a recent weekday afternoon, if you had walked down the Palm Jumeirah Boardwalk, a promenade overlooking the Arabian Gulf that encircles this capital city’s famous palm-shaped artificial island, you may have encountered a man repeating legal texts line by line to himself for hour after hour. That man…
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Fast Forward With fusion Emirati-Jewish dishes, a kosher chef blossoms in Dubai
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (JTA) — Last year, Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a treaty establishing diplomatic relations. But for more than a year earlier, diners in the UAE had already been finding their way to Jewish culture — via the home cooking of a South African expatriate. Elli Kriel, a sociologist by…
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