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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Edward Kaprov helps splice the ends</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/20/foto-friday-edward-kaprov-helps-splice-the-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Splicing the Ends is the name of a new art exhibition that opens next week, November 28th, at the Amiad Center in Old Jaffa. Over the past two years, Amiad has emerged as a unique center for the arts in Jaffa’s newly revived Flea Market area, now a hot nightlife spot for Tel Aviv’s young [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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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>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>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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		<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: October in the Old City</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/22/october-evening-in-the-old-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s October. 
The evenings are getting cooler and Jerusalem is one of the first places in the country to feel the change in seasons.
In the evenings, the Old City walls are lit up, creating interesting shadows. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90. 
Share with others
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		<title>Guru in our backyard</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/20/guru-in-our-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli meditation community was all a flutter this week with the arrival of meditation guru (both figuratively and literally) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar who spoke yesterday at Hebrew University to a crowd of about 600.
Shankar is best known in Israel as the founder of the Art of Living, a type of meditation that includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When&#8217;s the right time for a rite of passage?</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/15/whens-the-right-time-for-a-rite-of-passage/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/15/whens-the-right-time-for-a-rite-of-passage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s generally accepted that the  Israeli perspective on the bar/bat mitzvah ceremony is different from its counterpart in the US.
I remember when Susie and three of her closest friends decided to celebrate their bat mitzvahs together – they were all around 40-years-old at the time.
They had been studying Torah as a group in Jerusalem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrolling the Torah</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/12/unrolling-the-torah/</link>
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		<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>Of Matisyahu, Larry David and their [dis]connection to Israel</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/10/09/of-matisyahu-larry-david-and-their-disconnection-to-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/10/09/of-matisyahu-larry-david-and-their-disconnection-to-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ust by chance, I&#8217;ve been interviewing quite a few American Jewish artistic types in the last couple of weeks &#8211; as disparate as Elan Attias, the vocalist for the late Bob Marley&#8217;s band The Wailers, iconoclast Brooklyn acoustic rocker Adam Green, Orthodox reggae rapper Matisyahu, and Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm icon Larry David.
It&#8217;s always interesting to [...]]]></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>
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		<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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