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Yudit over at OCCUPIED has started a new project in her Jaffa neighborhood: She and a local NGO distributed digital cameras to area kids and when results start rolling in, they’ll post to a newly-found blog.

Yudit lives in Ajami, a majority Israeli-Arab neighborhood characterized by close proximity to the sea and an 80′s structural re-vamp that translated into refurbishing the neighborhood’s “palace houses”. Unfortunately, poverty and turf wars haunt Jaffa. Regardless, the ancient port city is well worth a visit for its lively flea market, architectural beauty and the infamous Abulafia Bakery.

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Sprung

What better than wallowing in nature on a relaxing Saturday/Shabbat? Sorry East Coast dwellers/Mid-Westerners but we’re actually headed into Spring ‘oer here yonder.

Compliments of Jerusalem’s Elms in the Yard , these images from her garden…

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Huan Yin! (??!)

Fili’s World showcases Violet. An Israeli teen who blogs about Chinese culture in Chinese on Taiwan’s Yahoo.

Got it? Pop quiz on Monday.

Violet, Fili has surmised, lives in Israel and most probably hails from an Israeli-father/Taiwanese mother household. If you read Chinese, knock yourself out with this link to Violet’s blog.

If not, a brief translation courtesy of Fili:

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< em>Translation – Hi everybody, I’m Violet, and I’m a high-school student living in Israel. In Israel we use Hebrew, but my mom wanted me to study Chinese so I will have an international perspective. Chinese characters are really complicated and difficult to write. This is to write about my various thoughts and you’re all welcome to comment (help?! corrections are very welcomed).

Xin nian kuai le, Violet!

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Gaza Blog Mom

February 14, 2007 by Stephanie · 5 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Politics 

Quite a plug in today’s Haaretz English online for Laila el-Hadad’s blog Raising Yousuf.

Hadad hails from Kuwait but moved back to Gaza – her parents are from Khan Yunis and Gaza City – in 2003 and began freelancing in journalism. Her blog started out as a daily ins-and-outs recount of motherhood to son Yousuf but eventually evolved into a more political “voice”.

Hadad says her blog is a vital communicaton tool.

“If I can’t reach people in the West Bank, Jerusalem or Israel, then I can reach them through my blog,” she says.

I don’t necessarily agree with Laila’s politics but from one blogger to another: Cheers!

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Tzofia, she’s our baby

February 11, 2007 by Sarah · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Blogging, Life 

Mazal tov to English-language Israeli blogger Harry (of “A View from Here”) and his wife Ziva on the birth of their new baby daughter, Tzofia Reevi. Photo and some vague birth-story information here.

And here (in the comments section), calls to Tzofia to start blogging on Monday.

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