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	<title>ISRAELITY &#187; Israeliness</title>
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		<title>Giving insurance companies an (even worse) name</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/20/giviing-insurance-companies-an-even-worse-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about as mundane a subject as is out there, but it certainly reflects that the reality of living in Israel has very little to do with the headlines most people read, and more to do with the trials and tribulations we all face no matter where we live.
I wrote a few weeks ago [...]]]></description>
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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>Room 124</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/room-124/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/room-124/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli bureaucratic institutions have been slowly but surely modernizing over recent years. You can get in and out of the infamous Interior Ministry in less than a day…and you don’t have to line up at 8:00 AM just to shove your way in through the heavily guarded front door.
The health funds now have computerized kiosks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not just any third birthday</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/not-just-any-third-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/not-just-any-third-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hozlberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most quickly forgotten aspects following any terror attack is the survivors. We all mourn the victims, obsess about the perpetrators, and move on, as those left behind attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives.
Three-year-old Moishe Holzberg has proven to be the exception. A year ago, Moishe&#8217;s parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting Israel-style</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/17/protesting-israel-style/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/17/protesting-israel-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The email we received last week was dire. Our neighborhood was in grave danger of being ruined by unscrupulous real estate developers, it read. A massive 210-unit apartment project had been green-lighted to be built right in the middle of an already congested neighborhood.
The resulting traffic, pollution and just plain lack of aesthetics (the planned [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/nostalgia-sunday-old-ads-are-more-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arik Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bamba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elite instant coffee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[israeli nostalgia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sabra Sussita]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13787</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/religious-ruptures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Levac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beit Avi Chai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eretz Israel Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haredim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Menahem Kahana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=14020</guid>
		<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>Stage mom</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/13/stage-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/13/stage-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Moments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[A.B. Yehoshua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eran Riklis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geula]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Iviner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ became a stage mother this week. Through a series of amusing connections and events (my babysitter&#8217;s younger sister has a starring role in an Israeli television show, Room Service, and the casting director asked her mother if she knew any babies in Jerusalem who could be cast in a new Eran Riklis film), my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music downloads? Israel goes CD retro</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/12/music-downloads-israel-goes-cd-retro/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/12/music-downloads-israel-goes-cd-retro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatav Hashmini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ozen Hashlishi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tel Aviv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tower Records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As more and more people are downloading music on the Web and choosing Ipods over CD players, where can you find the good, old fashioned mega-CD stores? In Israel!
True, Tower Records has taken a hit here, with its Jerusalem flagship store closing down last year, but instead of throwing in the flag, other outlets have [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbecues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

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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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