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Fast Forward New Lion Named Gir Debuts at Jerusalem Bible Zoo
The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is welcoming a new male lion from Sweden. The two-year-old rare Asiatic lion was scheduled to arrive Thursday night. He replaces Lider, a 16-year-old male Asiatic lion who was put to sleep last summer. The new lion, Gir, will join lioness Ileniya, 16, though the two lions will be kept apart…
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Opinion How Israel’s Politics vs. Security Rift Aids Jihadis
Hamas fighters testing a Gaza-made M-75 long-range missile, November 2013 / Getty Images Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein offered a stunningly clear and disturbing report (in Hebrew, my translation below) on Friday that illustrates the vexing complications introduced into the triangular Jerusalem-Cairo-Gaza relationship by political turmoil in all three places. It makes a very useful companion piece…
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Life Rachel Azaria, Deputy Mayor of Holy Town
It was only five years ago that Rachel Azaria first got involved in local Jerusalem politics as councilwoman. Now a rising star in the municipality, she was sworn in as the city’s new deputy mayor on November 21. Azaria, 36, was first elected to Jerusalem’s city council in 2008. In elections held this past October,…
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Food ‘Jerusalem’s’ Cannellini Bean and Lamb Soup
Yemini Jews, who set up simple eateries in Israel after settling there in the 1950s, are famous for their soups and stews, skillfully using bones, cheap cuts of meat and various spices to get a real intensity of flavor. This particular soup is what we cook to brighten up a dreary winter’s night. It is…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Hold Monthly Prayer at Kotel Without Torah Scroll
About 200 Women of the Wall held their monthly morning service at the Western Wall, but were refused permission to bring their own Torah scroll to the plaza. The women marked the new Jewish month of Shevat with their Rosh Chodesh service on Jan. 2. Unlike in past months, there were few protests against the…
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Fast Forward NBC Scraps Plans To Film Series in East Jerusalem Amid Palestinian Protest
NBCUniversal assured the Palestine Liberation Organization that it will not film an upcoming television series in parts of eastern Jerusalem. The series, “Dig,” will be produced by the Israel-based Keshet Media Group and co-written by Gideon Raff of the popular U.S. television series “Homeland.” About six weeks ago, Keshet and the Jerusalem municipality said the…
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Fast Forward Israel’s De Facto Partition of Jerusalem Creates Forgotten Arab Neighborhoods
Palestinian Sana Musa holds her 8-year old daughter Susann’s hand as they start the long trek home from school across a caged walkway through Israel’s concrete separation wall. Just a short drive from the stone streets of the world-famous Old City, this is part of Jerusalem’s fractured landscape that no tour group would dare tread,…
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Life Getting Women to Mikveh, Snow or No
Jerusalem residents were told to stay off the streets during the recent, highly unusual, heavy snowstorm. Only plows and emergency vehicles were allowed to get through. And only in Jerusalem would a “Purity Mobile” count as an emergency vehicle. Ynet reported that Taharat Habayit (purity of the home), a Haredi organization, sent a 4×4 jeep-like…
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