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Soul food: Aspiring haredi cooks train for restaurant jobs

Five haredi Orthodox men are standing around a large wooden table crowded with bowls of chopped tomato, garlic, carrots and greens, their ritual fringes poking out from under their aprons. Each is wielding a large chef’s knife.

Diverse trio running for mayor in troubled Jerusalem

It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A rabbi, a Russian oligarch and a high-tech millionaire are running for mayor of Jerusalem. Except there\’s no punch line, just each of them offering up himself as salvation for the hallowed capital\’s many troubles.

A Jaundiced Lens

An edgy moodiness pervades \”Kadosh,\” Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai\’s jaundiced examination of haredi Jerusalem women oppressed by religious extremism.

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