By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org Past the Gaza Strip, toward the rocket-battered city of Sderot, a new train now connects isolated Negev communities to the larger Israeli population centers. Not surprisingly, the Sderot line also opens the gates to increased tourism in that region. For many people in Sderot, the new rocket-proof train station, which […]
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Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: Following story is reprinted from the Jan. 20 online edition of the San Diego Reader Jewish center canceled singer’s show Eyal Golan suspected of sex with minor By Don Bauder Jewish media such as the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency are reporting that San Diego’s Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center canceled a
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By Donald H. Harrison AGOURA HILLS, California — For many years, Shlomo “Momo” Lifshitz was the travel entrepreneur who tried to greet each one of the 55,000 “Operation Birthright” participants that his company, Oranim, took responsibility for showing around during their 10-day visits to Israel. “Welcome home!” he would enthusiastically say in greeting to each
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (Press Release)– American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris lauded Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for delivering a memorable speech before the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. “Prime Minister Harper has conveyed with exceptional clarity the moral grounding of Canada’s consistent support for Israel,” said Harris, who will see the Canadian leader at an event
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson EILAT, Israel — Nothing could be more incongruous. On the one hand you have Eilat, Israel’s southernmost town, a seaside resort and tourism magnet, where the sun always shines and it’s almost invariably warm. Its location provides it with some of the loveliest beaches in the world, with craggy mountains to the
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV, Israel –You’re in traffic that doesn’t move. You’ must not be late to your appointment. So you press a button near the steering wheel, your car levitates, and you simply fly over the traffic jam. It’s not so crazy, according to Israeli engineers who have been testing the prototype of a flying car
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By Anav Silverman ESH KODESH – Maayan Shaar, 26, of Esh Kodesh had no idea that her family’s favorite midweek dinner – sushi rolls – would become such a sought-after food item across Samaria’s hilltop communities. “I’ve been making sushi for a long time,” Shaar told Tazpit News Agency. “My children love it – every
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By Rhonda Spivak WINNIPEG, Canada — In the summer of 2009 as a journalist I attended a peace conference for Israelis and Palestinians put on by IPCRI (Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information) at Talitha Kumi Evangelical Lutheran School , above the town of Beit Jalla, adjacent to Bethlehem in the West Bank. The conference
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — We thank Vivian Blackstone of San Diego for forwarding this Tu B’Shevat video from Technion!
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) –In response to a surge in digital downloads of e-book editions of Adolf Hitler’s biographical manifesto, Mein Kampf, and in anticipation of the expiration of the book’s Bavarian copyright in 2015, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has made available on its website a digital version of an introduction to the English translation
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JERUSALEM (TNA)- Following a resolution unanimously adopted at the 169th session of the CERN Council, Israel was admitted on Wednesday, Jan. 15 as a full member of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at a special ceremony in Geneva, at the end of which the Israeli flag was added to the line of flags representing
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a remarkable summary of the Holocaust years, as seen through the compassionate eyes of survivor Lou Dunst. In My Bargain With God, Kamin follows Dunst’s journey through the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee, the latter concentration camp being where Dunst came within
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC)–The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has dramatically improved its missile capabilities and can now pinpoint targets anywhere in Israel, a senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard’s aerospace division, said Israelis would see Hezbollah’s new might should a war break out.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — American culture, having turned over from social justice to narcissism, has now become a fertile field for the self-glorification that attends many birthdays. Like the cavalcade of grades of iPhones, this one is “better” than that one; here is a “milestone” event and there is “just another one.” The
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