Haaretz/Andrew Esensten
By Haaretz/Andrew Esensten
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News Breakdancing’s Latest Mecca? Jerusalem
They have names like Elastic, G-Rock, Aladdin, Pac Man and Splinter. They sport hoodies, backwards baseball caps and Adidas footwear. They dance in circles, but they don’t do the hora; they’re Israeli b-boys and b-girls, and they have serious flavor. Israel’s top break dancers took part in the “Prove Yourself B-Boy Jam” on Thursday, competing…
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Fast Forward African Hebrew Israelites Reenact Exodus in Passover Tradition
At dawn on Tuesday morning, a large group gathered on a mountain in the Negev desert to reenact the moments leading up to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Dressed in robes and flowing dresses, these pilgrims prayed, sang spirituals and discarded the leftovers from their seder meals into the flames of a massive bonfire, in…
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