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Food Israel’s Best Kept (Herbal) Secret
About a year and a half ago, I had a cold. My itchy eyes were constantly tearing, my nose was both raw and runny at the same time. For someone who rarely gets sick and takes over the counter drugs on even rarer occasions it was a particularly out of body experience. I contracted this…
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Culture Republic of Dance
For three days every summer, the northern Israeli bedroom community of Karmiel, population 52,000, swells to upward of a quarter of a million people. Most of the visitors are avid dancers or dance lovers. Others come just to enjoy the heady atmosphere of the Karmiel Dance Festival, which bills itself as the largest international dance…
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The Schmooze Egypt Reality TV Prank Goes Very Bad
Egyptian actors on a hidden camera television show reacted violently upon being told they were being aired on an Israeli TV channel. Excerpts from the show, part of satellite TV channel Al-Nahar’s special Ramadan programming, were translated and distributed this week by MEMRI-the Middle East Media Research Institute. In one show, Egyptian artist Ayman Kandeel…
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News Land of Milk, Honey and Reality TV
There?s a lot of drama in Israel. That?s no surprise, of course, given the drama throughout the Middle East. Perhaps less expected is that there?s comedy, musicals and, as we?ll see late in July, reality, too. On July 26, CBS debuts ?3,? a reality TV show it describes as a ?relationship series in which three…
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Israel News Clues to 3,400-Year-Old Mystery
Israeli archaeologists have recently unearthed a palace at the Tel Hatzor National Park in Upper Galilee, revealing rare findings – jugs containing scorched wheat from some 3,400 years ago. The find provides still more tangible evidence of the destruction of Canaanite city of Hatzor, an event dated at the mid-13th century B.C.E. The jugs were…
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The Schmooze Should Israelis Cancel Trips to Bulgaria?
The tragic attack in Bulgaria has united Israelis in shock and mourning. But some are also left asking a rather mundane question — who pays for the knock-on effects? The Hebrew media reports that in the main Israelis with travel plans for Bulgaria are continuing to travel. But inevitably, some want to cancel. Travel agents…
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News Bulgarian Jews Reeling After Deadly Bombing
Until this week, leaders of Bulgaria’s small, generally placid Jewish community said they felt untouched by hate crimes or terrorism. But after Wednesday’s apparent suicide bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Black Sea city of Borgas, Jews in the country are speaking of a basic change in their sense of security. “We…
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Opinion ‘No Occupation’ Report Negates Israel’s Legitimacy
Considerable attention has been focused these last several weeks on the report of Israel’s Levy Commission. No great surprise: The three-person commission, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to render an advisory opinion regarding Jewish settlement in the West Bank, determined that there is no barrier to such settlement and, indeed, that the legality of…
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