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		<title>Beaujolais Nouveau</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/beaujolais-nouveau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s the third Thursday in November, that means it&#8217;s a) the Thursday before Thanksgiving and more importantly, b) the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau, the first wine of the harvest. Drunk when the wine is still young and fresh, the million cases of Beaujolais Nouveau that are shipped from France worldwide each November has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of the week: The Ethiopian journey comes to an end</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/18/picture-of-the-week-the-ethiopian-journey-comes-to-an-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It’s been a long journey for Israel&#8217;s Ethiopian Jews, airlifted out of Ethiopia to Israel in 1984 and 1991, but this week, many must have felt their travels were really and truly over. 
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews descended on Jerusalem on Monday to take part in the prayer of the Sigd on a hill overlooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austrians forget how Hatikva goes</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/16/austrians-forget-how-hatikva-goes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.
At an international fencing competition over the weekend in Austria, two Israeli teens &#8211; Dana Stralinkov, 14, and Alona Komarov, 13 &#8211; won the gold and bronze medals respectively.
However, at the ceremonies awarding them the medals, instead of playing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Old ads are more fun</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/nostalgia-sunday-old-ads-are-more-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia Sunday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arik Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bamba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elite instant coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elite-Strauss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israeli nostalgia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sabra Sussita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we are to learn anything from Mad Men, it&#8217;s that advertisements are most fun and best viewed in retrospect. We look back in &#8220;What were they thinking?&#8221; wonderment at the positioning of certain products. For example, here&#8217;s a slideshow of Israeli advertisements from yesteryear &#8211; including one for Osem&#8217;s Bamba as a crispy late-night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious ruptures</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/religious-ruptures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Levac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city&#8217;s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel factory on Shabbat, talk at the water cooler on this first day of the work week revolved around this latest turn in the Shabbat riots.
The riots were reportedly peaceful, but as one coworker of mine commented, &#8220;How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of the week: The long goodbye to Rabin</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/11/picture-of-the-week-the-long-goodbye-to-rabin/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/11/picture-of-the-week-the-long-goodbye-to-rabin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Peres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yitzhak Rabin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13960</guid>
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There can&#8217;t be many people on the left or the right in Israel who don&#8217;t still wonder what would have happened if former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hadn&#8217;t died the night he was shot by religious fanatic Yigal Amir.
Would we have peace now? Would the second intifada have been avoided? Or would everything have unfolded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High school musical &#8211; the hike</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/high-school-musical-the-hike/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/high-school-musical-the-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A uniquely Israeli creation, the tiyul shnati (Annual trip) has been part of our family&#8217;s lives since our oldest child was big enough for one of the outdoor overnight, multi-day trips.
Whether they attend secular or religious schools, the annual trips are generally chock full of walking the land, camping in the rough, rope and ladder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Take a Hike, Alte Zachen!</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/08/nostalgia-sunday-take-a-hike-alte-zachen/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/08/nostalgia-sunday-take-a-hike-alte-zachen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animal rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the end of an era. Ynet News reported today that following six-year struggle, Tel Aviv has become the first city in Israel to prohibit the entry of horse-drawn carriages into its territory.&#8221; That phrase, &#8220;horse-drawn carriages&#8221; is a pretty euphemism for the age-old Jewish profession of dealing in rags, bones and bottles. In other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Shaare Zedek Hospital&#8217;s Schwester Selma</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/01/nostalgia-sunday-shaare-zedek-hospitals-schwester-selma/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/01/nostalgia-sunday-shaare-zedek-hospitals-schwester-selma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know Schwester Selma but there is one time when perhaps our paths might have crossed. That would be in 1973, when my sisters and I were rushed to Jerusalem&#8217;s old Shaare Zedek hospital after a car accident (we came out with minor cuts, bruises, a few stitches in my sister&#8217;s forehead and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have any lessons been learned from Rabin&#8217;s assassination?</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/28/have-any-lessons-been-learned-from-rabins-assassination/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/28/have-any-lessons-been-learned-from-rabins-assassination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[14th anniversary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Peres]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday marks the 14th anniversary of the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin &#8211; certainly one of the cataclysmic events of Israel&#8217;s short history.
The divisions among the country&#8217;s citizens which led to Rabin&#8217;s assassination are still very apparent, with venom from both the Right and Left toward each other spouting freely without any attempt to [...]]]></description>
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