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Recipes From International Journey to Cultural Connection
The falafel stand was a key stop on the “tour” of Israel. Organized within my son’s active imagination, the imaginary tour was inspired by a Happy Birthday Israel program at our synagogue. This trip was special because it included a participatory component beyond a float in the Dead Sea, a dip in the Mediterranean, a…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Tel Aviv Wins the Euroleague Basketball Championship
Maccabi Tel Aviv upset favored Real Madrid to win the Euroleague basketball championship. Maccabi defeated the Spanish squad, 98-86, in overtime on Sunday night in Milan in the title game. Tyrese Rice led the Israeli club with 26 points, including 14 in overtime. The game was tied at 73 following regulation. A huge contingent of…
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Fast Forward Israel Sending Aid to Serbia and Bosnia Flood Victims
Israel is sending aid to help rescue efforts in Serbia and Bosnia, where record floods have submerged cities and left more than two dozen dead and thousands homeless. Local media reported that Israel sent a first shipment of emergency aid this weekend including medicine, food, blankets and rain gear, and will soon send pumps. The…
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Fast Forward Haredi Rabbi Retracts Statement Encouraging Yeshiva Students to Kill Israeli Politicians
A haredi Orthodox rabbi who encouraged assassination of Israeli politicians in a speech to yeshiva students has retracted his remarks. In a recorded speech, Rabbi Nissan Kaplan of Jerusalem’s prominent Mir Yeshiva equated Israel’s current political leadership to Amalek, the biblical enemy Jewish law traditionally commands Jews to eradicate. The comparison follows passage of a…
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Culture There’s Something Rotten in Akko (and It’s Not the Falafel)
Akko’s Old City, many people told me, is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, but I never found the time to go there. At least not until today, when I decided that it’s time I finally heed their advice. I don’t know anybody in Akko — Old City or New — which…
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Fast Forward UCLA Anti-Divestment Students Face Conflict Claim Over Israel Trips
The University of California, Los Angeles student government held a hearing in response to a complaint leveled against two student council members over free trips they took to Israel. The UCLA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine brought the complaint against the two former members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council that led to…
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Culture Even Trees Can Be Political
The anonymous narrator of Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” wonders why his neighbor insists upon having an artificial barrier between their properties. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines,” he says. But all his neighbor does is echo,…
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Opinion What Is Apartheid Really?
“Apartheid” is an ugly Dutch word that literally means “separateness.” In South Africa, different races were kept apart on ideological grounds. This meant that the majority of people were deprived of citizens’ rights in South Africa on the grounds of their race. Such is currently not the case in Israel, where Arab Israeli citizens have…
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