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Yesterday | Mystical Paths

Kfar Chabad gets ready for Chanukah

Photos by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths I was briefly in Kfar Chabad today. Kfar Chabad is a rural village of Chabad chassidim that's a few miles down the road from Lod, up the road from Tel Aviv, and practically next to Ben Gurion airport... The replica of Chabad world headquarters, 770, has a huge menorah sculpture on the roof.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

Jerusalem Post

'Falash Mura must be brought to Israel'

The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel must immediately restart the stalled immigration process from Ethiopia and the organized Jewish community in the US must provide the funding for it, said Kadima MK Shlomo Molla, who headed a delegation of three MKs to Ethiopia last week and will present his findings to a special session of the ...

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Jerusalem Post

A particularly violent weekend

A 19-year-old man was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded during a brawl outside of a pub in Haifa's downtown district on Friday night.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Examiner.com

Emily Jacir: Resistance Artist

Dispatch , the newest work by Palestinian-American Emily Jacir, recently ended its run at the Alexander and Bonin art gallery in Chelsea.

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

RecordNET

Lodian wins Miss Southland

Lodi native Coreena Coleman recently took home $650 in scholarship money and the Miss Southland title from the Miss Hollywood and Miss Southland 2010 competition in Los Angeles.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Stockton Record

Lodian closer to political goals

Former Lodi Assemblyman Alan Nakanishi's new state job has a few perks, and it's not just the $7,852-a-month pay.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

Jordan Times

Still riveting after all these years

Mohammad Ghayadeh has been repairing bicycles for over three quarters of a century.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Jerusalem Post

Counterpoint: On the eve of a lecture tour to the US

I am about to depart for a lecture tour to the United States. While I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the Jewish scene across the Atlantic, I must admit that this time I am going with some trepidation because there is a new Jewish reality in the Diaspora.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Phronesisaical

How Israel Destroyed Syriaa s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor

Aside from the big assumption , Erich Follath's apparent connections to Mossad , and the timing of the article, apparently to undermine Iran's credibility during negotiations, it might be useful to comb it for new information and possible errors.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Stockton Record

Projects making Lodians anxious

If there is one thing many Lodians wear on their sleeves, it is the age-old anxiety over Stockton's slow urbanization north.

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Jerusalem Post

Two railways staffers arrested for armed robbery of colleague

Two brothers from Lod who are senior employees of Israel Railways were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of taking part in an armed robbery of a colleague.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

Jerusalem Post

Rabbis: Privatize marriage registration

A group of religious Zionist rabbis are calling to privatize the marriage registration process to stop what they call the Chief Rabbinate's inefficient, unfriendly and overly stringent bureaucracy from turning off secular Israelis to religion.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Examiner.com

Lodi parent's simple request regarding school cafeteria food causes hate-filled reactions

Israr Khan is a Lodi parent of a 4-year-old who attends Heritage Elementary School.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Haaretz

Another century of traffic jams

Here's a question worthy of a national commission of inquiry: How is it that Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial, doesn't have a subway? Israelis traveling abroad enjoy the availability, speed and comfort of public transportation, but here we wait for the bus in the rain and heat, and lumber along through narrow, crowded streets.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

NewsBlaze

PA Still Teaches Kids That All of Israel is 'Occupied'

"Allah willing, the day will come when we'll return to Lod and all the areas they [Israel] have occupied." [PA TV , Sept.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Haaretz

Amira Hass / In Gaza, only the dying get to see their Israeli relatives

Qassem al-Masri's father has been suffering from liver problems for years. Sometimes he is hospitalized, and usually he doesn't feel well .

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

Jewish Federation of Delaware

Israeli archeologists discover 1,700-year-old footprints

Israeli archeologists have found the 1,700-year footprints of people working on a mosaic during the times that the Romans were ruling the region.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

Ynetnews

Worshipers leave Temple Mount

Representatives of the hundreds of Muslim worshippers who claimed to be entrenched in the al-Aqsa mosque in recent days held a press conference in the Wadi Joz neighborhood in Jerusalem in which they spoke of how they "defended the holy place from the occupation". According to the worshippers, hundreds of people from around Israel remained in the ...

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

Examiner.com

Michael Patrick O'Riley released from jail with unexpected gifts: life lessons through suffering

Lodian Michael Patrick O'Riley was booked into San Joaquin County Jail September 3, 2009 on spousal abuse charges.

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Fri Sep 25, 2009

San Francisco Bay View

The war where I was killed and Gaza survived

" More than 100 farmers, youth, internationals and Israeli peace activists marched against the Israeli separation wall Friday and, armed with car tires and a homemade ladder to climb the high wall, they managed to burn one section and pull down three others.

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