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The Pioneering Women of Zionism
An updated anthology of classic Zionist texts acknowledges the influence of women like Golda Meir and Naomi Shemer as well as Hadassah’s early leaders.

An updated anthology of classic Zionist texts acknowledges the influence of women like Golda Meir and Naomi Shemer as well as Hadassah leaders.
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Making a Difference in Nepal
In Tevel B’Tzedek, Israeli Micha Odenheimer has created a Jewish Peace Corps that brings Jewish aid and ideals to Nepal, one of the world’s most impoverished nations.

Volunteers from Tevel B’Tzedek enhance Nepalis’ skills as farmers, educators and community leaders.
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Digging Beneath the Surface: An Archeologist’s View of the Temple Mount and its Environs
Eilat Mazar, scion of a family of esteemed Israeli archaeologists, unearths connections to the past in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Eilat Mazar, scion of a family of esteemed Israeli archaeologists, unearths connections to the past in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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The Six-Day War 50 Years Later: The Pride, the Pain
The events of 1967 united Jews around the world in an emotional trajectory—from existential fear to relief and, finally, to jubilation when Israel reunified Jerusalem. But it also bequeathed to us wrenching dilemmas that persist to this day.

The events of 1967 united Jews around the world in an emotional trajectory. But it also bequeathed to us wrenching dilemmas that persist to this day.
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Caesarstone: From Kibbutz Dining Hall to Ultra-Modern Milan
Haute cuisine has become a national pastime in Israel, and Caesarstone embraces this trend with its first conceptual cookbook, A Material Menu: Designs for the Culinary Aesthetic.

Haute cuisine has become a national pastime in Israel, and Caesarstone embraces this trend with its first conceptual cookbook.
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Israel Building the World’s Tallest Solar Tower
When the entire Ashalim B power plant in the Negev Desert is completed at the end of this year, the 750-feet-high tower will supply enough renewable electric power for 120,000 households.

When the entire Ashalim B power plant in the Negev is completed at the end of this year, it will supply enough renewable power for 120,000 households.
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The Promised Land of Medical Marijuana
With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in the world.

With eight farms authorized to cultivate marijuana and pending legislation to ease access to the drug, Israel’s cannabis industry is one of the most advanced in
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Getting Your Hands Dirty in Israel
Taking part in volunteer digs from Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea to sites in the north has become a popular attraction for tourists, students and retirees.

Volunteer digs from Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea to sites in the north have become popular attractions for tourists, students and retirees.

January 17. Every Friday, young Jews converge on Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Participants in the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, they are rallying to protest

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Mishpoche Enablers

by Leora Eren Frucht

Yulia and Slav Pozniansky, an Israeli couple in their fifties, enjoy being grandparents to their oldest son’s three children. They crave the chance to be

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Celebrating the Diaspora Although much of Jewish history mourns the diaspora and the Jewish people’s disbursement to the four corners of the earth, one literary

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Certifiably Jewish

by Dina Kraft

Rachel and Itai met in college. She was a senior at a Florida university; he was an Israeli shaliah who came to the campus to talk about

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Interview: Ester Levanon

by Charley J. Levine

Ester Levanon, 64, has been chief executive officer of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 2006. She has helped secure for the exchange (for publicly

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Feature: Back to the Garden

by Sue Fishkoff

Twenty-one-year-old Alyssa Tanz of Toronto is busy shoveling aged manure from her wheelbarrow onto the ground, forming a circle of natural fertilizer around the base

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Letter from Herzliya: All It Takes

by Barry Rubin

You can read and see many things in the American mass media, but there is one thing you will never find: what Israel wants from

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Saying “Ave Maria” in Hebrew

by Judith Sudilovsky

Overcome with excitement, Shula Apple stood at the altar in the chapel of Our Lady of Sion convent in the Ein Kerem neighborhood of Jerusalem.