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Jerusalem high on new skyline
Jewish Journal
March 12, 2014
Ten years ago, Jerusalem was just starting to emerge from the Second Intifada, which scared away local residents as well as investors.
Tourism to Israel reaches all-time high
Jewish Journal
January 9, 2014
Israel reported an all-time high in annual visitors in 2013.
‘Come back [to Israel] and bring a lot of people with you’
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2012
“No Shopping!” guide Nadav Kersh admonished his charges as they entered the crowded Old City of Jerusalem. “I mean it. No shopping! It’s just too easy to get lost here.”
Rebirth of Jewish life in Berlin
Jewish Journal
June 5, 2012
Once the infamous Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the sweeping reconstruction that began in West Berlin at the war\’s end,was repeated and even accelerated in what had been the Communist controlled East Berlin. Spectacular shopping complexes, elegant new hotels and office towers dominate the now united city.
At Passover, let my people go south
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Passover celebrates the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, their wandering in the desert for 40 years, and their ultimate deliverance to the Promised Land.
Moscow poisonings bring only shrugs and rumors here
Si Frumkin
March 16, 2007
Rumors abound. Conspiracy theories flourish. The Russian community knows — absolutely knows — that nothing is ever what it seems.
‘Yippee’ — Paul Mazursky documents Chasids gone wild
Tom Tugend
January 11, 2007
\”Jews are not cultured people,\” she complains. The other woman disagrees.\n\n\”They are cultured,\” she insists, \”they are just different.\”
Jews in the Military: High Holidays Under Fire
Jane Ulman
September 7, 2006
Here are the stories of these American servicemen who observed the High Holidays not in conventional synagogues, but on far-flung battlefields. The worship services they participated in were often improvised and incomplete. But the jarring juxtaposition of war and prayer, faith and fear, continues to resonate with these men.
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