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Recipe: Sweet Potato Latkes with Spiced Maple Syrup

November 29, 2021
By elisniv
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With Hanukkah approaching fast, people everywhere are getting excited to dine on treats such as latkes and Sufganiyot (jelly-filled doughnuts). But after eight days, those delicious...

Arts & Culture, Culture, History, Latest, Religion

People of the Book: The Finkler Question and the New Anti-Semitism

May 8, 2012
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by Daniel Kieval In Howard Jacobson's Booker-prize winning novel, The Finkler Question, Jewish residents of London are increasingly alarmed by the growing number of anti-Semitic attacks...

Arts & Culture, Latest

The Narrow Line Between Expression and Insult

May 8, 2012
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By Merav Levkowitz A number of Israeli artists have signed a letter proposing to boycott a cultural center set to open shortly in Ariel, a Jewish...

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Israel Mulls Settler Freeze

May 8, 2012
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By Doni Kandel With Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu scrambling to gain approval for a three month construction freeze on settlements, Americans, Palestinians and Israelis have...

Culture, Latest

The New "New Jew"

May 8, 2012
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By Lily Hoffman Simon A new kibbutz movement is sweeping Israel. Most often, it is comprised of irbutzim (city kibbutz), which are collectivist structures based on...

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Israel’s McCarthy?

May 8, 2012
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By Gabriel Weinstein When Avigdor Lieberman arrived in Israel from Moldova and began working as an airport porter he probably never imagined he would become Minister...

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Jordan and Israel: Awkward Bedfellows

May 8, 2012
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By Samantha Sisskind AMMAN, JORDAN - Two groups met at the banks of one of the world’s most meandering and politically significant rivers in the world....

History, Latest, Misc

The Fallen Kibbutz: A Microcosm of Israeli Society

May 8, 2012
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By Lily Hoffman Simon This year marked the centennial birthday of the Kibbutz. However, the structure of these unique societal experiments has changed so dramatically that,...

History, Latest

Yitzhak Rabin: 15 Years Later

May 8, 2012
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In a moving column in The New York Times, President Bill Clinton pays tribute to slain Israeli Prime Minister and peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin. "I continue to believe...

Latest, Religion

The Olive Conflict

May 8, 2012
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By Lily Hoffman Simon When Noah’s ark ended its forty day journey, Noah sent forth a dove, which returned to him with an olive branch. The olive...

History, Latest, Religion

The De-Militarized Zone: Politics and Religion in the Middle East

May 8, 2012
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By Samantha Sisskind AMMAN, JORDAN – The swastika and anti-Israel graffiti spray-painted on the wall of a church parking lot I pass on the way to my school...

Culture, Latest, Religion

What’s In a Name?

May 8, 2012
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By Gabriel Weinstein For hundreds of years, Ethiopian Jews dreamed of strolling through Jerusalem’s supposed golden streets and celebrating the Sigd festival in its hills. By...

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