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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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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Ghosts in Israel? Not likely</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/27/ghosts-in-israel-not-likely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel may be an ancient land, with an ancient, not to mention, bloody history, but despite this, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be a land of ghosts. 
What with Halloween coming up, I thought I&#8217;d do a story on the top 10 hauntings in Israel, expecting to find some fascinating material dating back to biblical times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing in Israel &#8211; Jack in the Box</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/24/missing-in-israel-jack-in-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of Haifa have a new unlikely neighbor who is hardly anonymous &#8211;  Jeremy Tyler, is an 18-year-old basketball-playing phenomenon from San Diego who signed with Maccabi Haifa this past summer and has been acclimating himself to his new enivrons.
The 6&#8242;-11&#8243; 260-pound Tyler decided to skip his senior year in high school in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pomegranate economics</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/14/pomegranate-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we say goodbye to the &#8216;chagim&#8217; period, the month-long span of Jewish holidays, a piece of news about pomegranates, a major fruit in the Rosh Hashana new fruit ritual. The pomegranate has also become a major component of the health food trade, given its antioxidants that lower blood pressure and reduce risk factors for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrolling the Torah</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/12/unrolling-the-torah/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/12/unrolling-the-torah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m still flying high from Simchat Torah. The festival, which took place this past Shabbat in Israel and yesterday outside of the country, celebrates the conclusion of the annual public reading from the Torah.
In most traditional synagogues, the Torah is removed from the ark, there is lots of dancing, and everyone gets called up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kfar Blum&#8217;s Pastoral Pastures</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/12/kfar-blums-pastoral-pastures/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/12/kfar-blums-pastoral-pastures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a thing for the kibbutz, that is, the kibbutz lifestyle, where you live in a tight-knit community of people whom you hopefully like, can avail yourself of the kibbutz pool and have the opportunity to eat freshly fried schnitzel at almost any given time. I mean, hey, that&#8217;s living, right?
So you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama Mamilla</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/06/mama-mamilla/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/06/mama-mamilla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I should be used to it, I can never seem to get over what a hopping place Jerusalem can be. Maybe it&#8217;s from growing up in a small New England city where three cars at a red light constituted a traffic jam.
Yesterday, part of the family took a stroll along the Alrov Mamilla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Sukkot in Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/02/foto-friday-sukkot-in-jerusalem/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/02/foto-friday-sukkot-in-jerusalem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The awe-ful part of the Days of Awe are behind us and now it&#8217;s time to party! Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is the holiday when Jerusalem gets itself all decked out&#8230;
&#169; RomKri
&#8230;and small wooden sukkot, or tabernacles, spring up overnight&#8230;
&#169; monti_clif
&#8230;dotting the urban landscape.
&#169; Pes &#038; Lev
The Municipality of Jerusalem gets into the act [...]]]></description>
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