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		<title>Through it all, they&#8217;ve been together</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   Story and photo by Judy Lash Balint NITSAN, Israel  &#8211; There&#8217;s the Zionist dream and then there&#8217;s the Zionist reality. There are those who dream about living in Israel but can&#8217;t quite make it for compelling personal reasons, or who just missed the boat when they had the chance. Others, like Moshe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Israel&#8217;s court found against the Corrie family</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Judy Lash Balint JERUSAELM &#8212; Back in March 2003 when Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to prevent Israel from clearing ground to expose terrorist hiding places, I interviewed several International Solidarity Movement (ISM) people who were present in Rafiah that day. Having lived for many years in Washington State where Corrie attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israelis pour into Hebron for Passover</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; HEBRON, Israel &#8212; While many Israelis fly off to various points around the globe for Passover, those of us who stay home and are fortunate enough to have some time off during the week-long holiday use the time to explore and get to know the country better. One group that’s helping make that happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 ways to know Pesach is arriving in Jerusalem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Surprised? Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reveals in their latest data that 88 percent of Israelis will take part in a Seder and 47 percent eat only kosher for Passover items during the holiday. Meantime, as Pesach approaches, latest figures from the National Insurance Institute’s 2011 poverty report indicate there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funeral for French school victims heart-wrenching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8211; The funerals in Jerusalem on Wednesday for the four latest Jewish victims of Muslim terror were heart-wrenching. The unbridled pain of Miriam Monsonego&#8217;s brother; the wailing of the friends and relatives and the sobbing eulogy of Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar were hard to take, but tragically, not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem hosts its first kosher wine exhibit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;As the center of the Jewish religious world, you would think that Jerusalem would have hosted a kosher wine festival before&#8211;but no, the first Jerusalem Kosher Wine Exhibit took place just this week at the Binyanei HaUma convention center. With a steep entry price of 70NIS per person (my press card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Shalit-for-1000 trade bring more terror?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Very distressing to see the singing and dancing going on at the Shalit tent outside Netanyahu&#8217;s office a few blocks away from here as the announcement that Israel had agreed to release more than a thousand terrorists, including hundreds who were serving life sentences for terror attacks such as the Sbarro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Ways You Know Sukkot is Coming to Jerusalem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; Seventeen ways you know Sukkot is coming to Jerusalem. 1. The tourists have landed! Overwhelmingly religious, English and French speaking, they jam the city’s take-out places and restaurants. The well-dressed visitors may be seen in packs wandering up and down Emek Refaim Street and through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel falls unusually quiet as Yom Kippur descends</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; Ben Gurion Airport closed at 1 p.m today and won&#8217;t reopen until three hours after the end of Yom Kippur tomorrow night. Public transportation all over Israel grinds to a halt by 2:30 p.m. In the streets later in the day, men hurry along with towels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circles of family, history close in Jerusalem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8211;The brit milah of Yishai and Malkah Fleisher&#8217;s second child, Eliezer Menachem, took place Sunday night in their apartment  in Maale HaZeitim, overlooking the Temple Mount.  The brief ceremony that initiated the baby into the covenant of Abraham closed circles for several of the people who crammed into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Californians become new Israelis under Palestinian fire</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8211; The latest Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight bringing 360 new immigrants from North America last week included some Southern California olim who landed in thethick of the worst terror attacks in recent years. MarvinCouture, 65, and Tom Dimercurio, 58, making aliya to Beersheba, stood out among the scores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outpouring of emotion, gratitude, marks anniversary of Jerusalem&#8217;s reunification</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; The amplified wail of the muezzin from the Al Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount couldn&#8217;t drown out the celebrations that rang  out over Jerusalem Wednesday night. From every corner of the Old City, youthful voices joined in singing all the classic Six-Day War songs as the city celebrated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So many, many to remember on Yom Hazikaron</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;In a country of 7 million people, there&#8217;s barely anyone not touched in some direct way by one of Israel&#8217;s wars or the terror attacks that have plagued Israeli citizens since before the founding of the State. This year&#8217;s statistics indicate that 22,867 men and women have been killed defending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering one of Hamas&#8217;s victims on Tu B&#8217;Shevat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Kassam missiles and mortar shells continue to fall on southern Israel. Earlier this week, there was a bombardment that caused minimal damage&#8211;the week before, three Thai workers were injured. Two days ago was the 6th yahrzeit of Ella Abukasis, a 17-year-old killed by a Kassam rocket in Sderot in 2005. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise!  Many people in Jerusalem get along with each other</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffrey Goldberg is visiting Jerusalem over the Christmas holiday with his family&#8211;Goldberg penned a little piece for the magazine&#8217;s blog about how astonished he was by all the multi-cultural experiences he&#8217;s had here over the past few days&#8211;things that Jerusalemites take completely for granted. Goldberg waxes eloquent about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Israel bus advertising hits Seattle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;I was alerted that back in my old hometown of Seattle,  KING5 TV broke the news that some group with nothing better to do with its money has paid for ads  to run on Seattle buses accusing Israel of &#8220;war crimes.&#8221; The very fact that this made news would seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haifa fire controlled; experts suggest letting landscape recover on its own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM, Monday, Dec 6 &#8212; Light rain and a change in the direction of the wind overnight signaled the end of the 4-day fires in the Carmel Forest. This morning, as grey skies and cooler temperatures blanketed the country, officials announced that the foreign fire-fighting help would be heading home and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some hopeful news from Israel&#8217;s worst fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM, Sunday a.m, Dec. 5 &#8211;looking for a few points of good (or at least better) news than we had before Shabbat. The manager of the renowned Carmel Forest Spa Hotel was interviewed on Reshet Bet Radio this morning and expressed his amazement that the hotel building itself is pretty much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel boycott rejected by co-op in Port Townsend, Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Last month when I was visiting Seattle, I had the opportunity to take part in a &#8220;hearing&#8221; of the Olympia Food Co-op whose board had voted to boycott Israeli products. The 15,000 Co-op membership had not been consulted and some of them were upset&#8211;not that they were pro-Israel, they were ticked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16 ways Jerusalemites know Sukkot is coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; Sixteen ways Jerusalemites know Sukkot is coming: 1. The clang of metal poles and the sounds of hammering are practically constant as Jerusalem&#8217;s apartment dwellers hurry to erect their sukkot and squeeze them into small balconies, odd-shaped gardens and otherwise derelict rooftops. 2. The tourists have landed! Overwhelmingly religious, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem spends a day without traffic lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; I know most Jews call Yom Kippur by other names, but here in Jerusalem, it&#8217;s the Day of No Traffic Lights. There are no traffic lights because there&#8217;s no traffic on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem. The city just turns off the lights for 25 hours. Imagine—an entire country without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Yom Kippur approaches in Jerusalem&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;In the days before Yom Kippur, thousands of Torah observant Israelis rush to finish the ritual of kapparot, where human sins are symbolically transferred to a fowl&#8211;generally a chicken. It&#8217;s a custom that does not appear anywhere in the Talmud, but whose origin seems to come courtesy of several 9th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sights and sounds of Rosh Hashanah in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Anyone venturing into the shuk or even a local supermarket in Israel this week could be forgiven for thinking that a famine was imminent in the land. Shoppers laden with huge nylon bags bulging with every kind of produce, fish, meat and bread may be seen staggering under the weight of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry abounds in Jerusalem as Rosh Hashanah approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;One of the great things about living in Israel is how easy it is to really &#8220;feel&#8221; any upcoming holiday. Just take a walk through the shuk and the stacks of honey jars, piles of perfectly ripe pomegranates and barrels of shiny Golan apples all make it easy to anticipate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completion of Torah Scroll in Old City prompts celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;The Sephardic Educational Center in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City celebrated the completion of a new Torah scroll Wednesday night, July 28, in a lively celebration of Jews from around the world. A scribe dips his quill pen into special ink and puts the finishing touches to a new Torah scroll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary:Tisha B&#039;Av feels more auspicious in Jerusalem than elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM &#8212; I&#8217;ve never been in Tel Aviv or Haifa for Tisha B&#8217;Av, but my guess is that it probably doesn&#8217;t feel too much different than Tisha B&#8217;Av in Seattle&#8211;a few hardy souls sitting on the floor of their synagogues in the evening and then spending the day itself struggling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Entebbe, 34 years later</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM, July 4&#8211;Today marks the 34th anniversary of Operation Yonatan, Israel&#8217;s dramatic rescue of 103 hostages that took place on July 4, 1976 at Entebbe, Uganda. As a college student in the US, I vividly remember watching events unfold as most of the rest of the nation was focused on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oklahoma friend tells of her efforts in behalf of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Margy Pezdirtz lives in Oklahoma.  Margy Pezdirtz loves Israel. Margy Pezdirtz is willing to stand up for Israel.  Here&#8217;s how Margy describes events in Oklahoma City last Friday afternoon: &#8221; It was a quiet Friday, one in which I wanted to study and prepare for the coming Shabbat, when my phone rang. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla; violence leaves 10 dead, 4 wounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;Four Israeli soldiers were wounded in this morning&#8217;s operation against the Gaza flotilla and ten activists reportedly were killed in the violent confrontation. Exactly the kind of escalation many of us predicted after the Rachel Corrie tragedy in 2003, when the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sent Corrie into a military zone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalemites crowd the Old City for Shavuot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 17:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;It’s 5:00 a.m on Shavuot morning and I’m having trouble finding an empty seat at any shul in Jerusalem’s Old City. Every synagogue is already packed as I make the mistake of lingering a few minutes too long at the Kotel amongst the tens of thousands who have made their way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 ways to know Pesach is coming to Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;For the past several years I&#8217;ve been putting out a light-hearted &#8217;18 Ways You Know Pesach is Coming In Israel&#8217; piece to describe the frenetic days leading up to Pesach in the holy city. This year, there are a few additional notable events that are driving the news cycles over here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended reading and viewing #8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Lash Balint, “Bethlehem prepares for Christmas,” on Ground Report Cable News Network, “House uncovered in Nazareth dating to the time of Jesus”   Jane Fantel found this video about “The Lost Generation” on YouTube Donald H. Harrison, “Sightseeing in San Diego County,” a growing collection of stories about places to take your family and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to recommended viewing and reading #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Lash Balint provides us with a link to her story about a Jewish bride and a father who were arrested for seemingly praying on the Temple Mount. Ulla Hadar, our Shaar Hanegev bureau chief, spotted this piece on Yahoo.com about how peaceful life has become in the wake of Operation Cast Lead on  Nahal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to recommended reading and viewing, #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judy Lash Balint in Jerusalem tells of “anti-freeze” demonstration, favoring continued construction “Jewish Federations of North America Update on Rescue of Yemen Jews” Donald H. Harrison, &#8220;Santee Lakes are models of recreation and reclamation,&#8221; Examiner.com (Don is now doing general sightseeing stories in addition to his work as editor of San Diego Jewish World.  Friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopian Jews troop to Kotel in Sigd celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM&#8211;The 29th of Cheshvan is not a particularly noteworthy day for most Jews in the world. But for Jews from Ethiopia, this date, corresponding this year to November 16,  has long been observed as one of their main holidays, known as Sigd&#8211;a day celebrating their connection to Jerusalem and commitment [...]]]></description>
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