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Snowstorms froze much of Israel. Winter blizzards brought heavy snow to the Jewish state Wednesday, from Mount Hermon in the North to Jerusalem to the Negev Desert in the …
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Israeli Quandary over Sudanese: Let Them Stay or Send Them Away
… border with Israel in the middle of a cold winter night. Snow was falling in the Sinai. Avoid the Egyptian military patrols, they were … Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, and asked her counterpart if Egypt would consider taking back some …
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Israel torn over Sudanese refugees
By JTA Staff… border with Israel in the middle of a cold winter night. Snow was falling in the Sinai.Avoid the Egyptian military patrols, they were … Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, and asked her counterpart if Egypt would consider taking back some …
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Seders reach isolated community
By Matt Siegel… 5,250 miles from Zabars in New York City, 5,680 miles from Jerusalem – and, in April, still resting peacefully under several feet of fresh snow – Kamchatka may be the last place in the world you’d expect to find …
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Russian-speaking Emissaries Bring Seders to an Isolated Community
… 5,250 miles from Zabars in New York City, 5,680 miles from Jerusalem — and, in April, still resting peacefully under several feet of fresh snow — Kamchatka may be the last place in the world you’d expect to find a Jew …
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After Winograd: Now what?
By Dina Kraft… to present the results of their report, April 30 in Jerusalem. (BPH Images)TEL AVIV (JTA) – With “failure” officially stamped … the Winograd Commission report, White House spokesman Tony Snow said, “Well, obviously he works very closely with Prime Minister Olmert …
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Yosef Begun making up for lost time
By Dina Kraft… AVIV (JTA) – Back when he was toiling in the snow of the Ural Mountains and elsewhere during 16 years in the Soviet Gulag, … getting worse,” he says, during a recent interview in Jerusalem. “The Kassams falling? We did not have those in mind when we …
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Snow falls in Israel
… inches of snow fell in Jerusalem and other mountainous areas in Israel. Municipal authorities in … and other Israeli highland areas went on alert Tuesday for snow expected overnight. On Wednesday, dozens of plows were out clearing the …
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… was bracing for major snowstorms. Municipal authorities in Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and other Israeli highland areas went on alert Tuesday for blizzards expected overnight. The snowstorms were preceded by gale-force winds that snarled traffic and, at one …
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Terror victims defend lawsuits
By Ron Kampeas… injuries in a bomb blast not far from their hotel in west Jerusalem in 2002. The New York lawyer said government intervention was undue … and then driving with his wife, despite the forecast of snow, to make the meetings on Wednesday. His son, Benjamin, was killed in July …
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Snow again in Israel
… second snowstorm of this winter hit Israel. At least 10 inches of snow draped Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and other highland areas of Israel early Tuesday, …
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… second snowstorm of this winter hit Israel. At least 10 inches of snow draped Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and other highland areas of Israel early Tuesday, …
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Israeli heart, Jewish soul
By Michael OrenJERUSALEM (JTA) – I will never forget my first day in Israel, when a group … Desperate for that completion, I mowed lawns and shoveled snow to pay for the privilege of working in Israel for free. But no sooner had … Tel Aviv to one focused on the sacred sites of Hebron and Jerusalem – from a largely Israeli state into an increasingly Jewish …
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Terrorism and mourning
… live on in my heart and soul forever. Writing in The Jerusalem Post, Sherri Mandel, whose 13-year-old son Koby was killed in an Arab … reluctant to call the perpetrators terrorists? Why did Jon Snow, one of Britain’s most respected TV journalists, use the word …
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Amid hedonistic indulgence, Jews search for meaning at Burning Man
By Ben Harris… a Jewish Renewal community in Berkeley or a hippie shul in Jerusalem. Except for the costumes. One man in a gold spandex jumpsuit sat atop … of gifting prevails. Themed camps offer everything from snow cones to coffee, from workshops in erotic massage to healing modalities …
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Snow falls on Israel
By Marcy OsterJERUSALEM (JTA) – Snow piled up on the Golan Heights and in the Galilee, and dusted Jerusalem as … and roads were closed to traffic. Six inches to a foot of snow fell on Israel’s only skiing site, Mount Hermon, which was closed …
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Mine injures five in northern Israel
By Marcy OsterJERUSALEM (JTA) – Five members of an Israeli family were injured when … to the IDF. The children had wanted to play in the snow, family members told Israeli media. The family said the area looked open … IDF conceded that the signs may have been covered by snow, though it insisted the area was fenced off. Other families reportedly …
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With an eye toward cooperation, recalling the Holocaust heroism of Muslims
… by the Nazis and held captive in chains in the freezing snow. Hardaga’s wife, Zejneba, found Kavilio and smuggled him food until she … in Israel, petitioned the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem to recognize the Hardagas’ bravery and name them Righteous …
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Israel’s first winter storm causes damage
By Marcy OsterJERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s first real winter storm caused major damage throughout … Desert and the center of the country, nearly 4 feet of snow fell in the area of Mount Hermon. Light snow also was reported in Jerusalem. The storm was predicted to abate by late …
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Israel’s ski season opens early
By Marcy OsterJERUSALEM (JTA) – The ski season in Israel began a month early with the … December and not January, according to Haaretz. Last year, snow only fell on the mountain twice and there were just six days of …
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Long green, grass and a ‘Glee’ showcase
By Marcy Oster… to the beaches of Tel Aviv, Dec. 12, 2010. (Deborah Sinai)JERUSALEM (JTA) — Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may … in Caesarea and along the Mediterranean coast, and brought snow a month early to Mount Hermon in Israel’s North. Immediately following the …
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The Eulogizer: Advice columnist, Moroccan author, diminutive actor
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Eulogizer is a new column (soon-to-be blog) that highlights … Stapleton. In the 1998 TV movie “Willa: An American Snow White,” he portrayed Billy Bugg, a dancing dwarf. Among the …
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The Eulogizer: Singer Phoebe Snow, Israeli leftist Oded Pilavsky
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Eulogizer is a new column (soon-to-be blog) that highlights … Read previous columns here. Phoebe Snow, 60, pop singer Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow, whose 1974 hit “Poetry Man” defined her career but not her …
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The Eulogizer: Economist Igor Birman, university president Milton Glick
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Eulogizer is a new column (soon-to-be blog) that highlights …
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Jerusalem under snow alert
By Marcy OsterJERUSALEM (JTA) – Jerusalem is bracing for possible snowfall over the weekend. Forecasts of up to an inch of snowfall in Jerusalem on Saturday prompted Magen David Adom, the emergency …
