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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; The Womens Corps</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/14/nostalgia-sunday-the-womens-corps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new exhibit has gone up at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv: Women in the Service of the British Army. The exhibit tells the story of the women in the pre-State Israel Yishuv who served in the British Army during World War II. 
Curator Batya Donner writes, &#8220;The volunteers, who were called to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life as a board game</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/12/life-as-a-board-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My life has become like a board game. Specifically, one that I created 38 years ago.
When I was in sixth grade in 1972, my friend David Saunders and I decided to create a Monopoly-like game with a board, dice, play money, and various cards which players would pick from a pile and then act on.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Biking to the Extreme</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/12/foto-friday-biking-to-the-extreme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel is a natural location for extreme sports. Some would even venture that just living in Israel is an extreme sport, given our highway conditions and of course that pesky security situation. 
Even the Israel Postal Company has gotten into the act, with a series of stamps celebrating windsurfing, and &#8212; of course &#8212; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ride the Einstein express</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/09/ride-the-einstein-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albert Einstein keeps on coming up on my radar.
Seems that to mark National Science Day and Einstein&#8217;s birthday on March 14, Hebrew University and Israel Railways are organizing a &#8216;Science Train&#8217; crossing Israel from Beersheva to Haifa, part of their ongoing monthly &#8216;Scientists on the Trains&#8217; lecture series.
(No, I had no idea that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Jerusalem upside down</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/08/seeing-jerusalem-upside-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Israel Museum unveils its extensive renovation work in July, museum-goers might be excused for thinking that things were done upside down.
That&#8217;s because one of the highlights of the $100 million makeover will be a  reflective stainless-steel-surfaced sculpture by world famous artist Anish Kapoor.
 According to Bloomberg news, like Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Commercials Go Way Retro</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/07/nostalgia-sunday-commercials-go-way-retro/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/03/07/nostalgia-sunday-commercials-go-way-retro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are awash in a flood of nostalgia that shows absolutely no sign on abating. As part of that trend, our commercials and TV shows are populated by the stars of yesteryear, trying today to earn some of the cash-o-la they couldn&#8217;t back in those modest days.
Take, for example, singer-songwriter Mati Caspi, seen lately endorsing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Purim Parties Past</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/nostalgia-sunday-purim-parties-past/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/nostalgia-sunday-purim-parties-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hard truths of life in Israel is that it always rains on Purim. It is as if the weather conspires to prove that we Jews can never hold a joyous celebration without breaking a glass or making a little baby boy cry. 
And events conspire as well. A few days ago, Magen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haman rears his ugly head</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/haman-rears-his-ugly-head/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/haman-rears-his-ugly-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe because it&#8217;s Purim, and we Jews are obsessing with bad guys trying to annihilate us, but didn&#8217;t the photographs of Syrian President Bashir Assad, Iranian President Ahmadinajad and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah sitting around a goodies-laden table at the end of the week in Damascus evoke a shiver down your spine?
It was like one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purim 2010</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/purim-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/purim-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purim&#8217;s approaching for the Jerusalemites &#8212; we&#8217;ve got &#8216;walled city&#8217; status because of the Old City walls &#8212; so we celebrate on Shushan Purim, which is tonight and tomorrow, and not last night and today, like the rest of the country. But in any case, the signs are all around. People are already posting their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purim costumes</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/27/purim-costumes/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/27/purim-costumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Purim is here, and amid the remains of a lightning-filled 48 hour winter storm, we&#8217;re headed out to hear the Megilla at our local havurah gathering.
It&#8217;s interesting to be part of  &#8211; and the instigators &#8211; behind an egalitatrian minyan in a community where most people are either secular or orthodox, and where the [...]]]></description>
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