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Israel’s plan to double the number of settlers in the Golan Heights is met with conflicting emotions
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Israel’s plan to double the number of settlers in the Golan Heights is met with conflicting emotions

Associated Press  

EIN ZIVAN, Golan Heights — A dry mountain wind whipped through a cluster of Israeli flags at the entrance of a kibbutz in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, where the tranquility belies the tumultuous events unfolding nearby. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print A woman looks at wine bottles in the Bahat winery in …

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Why is Hanukkah so late this year and how it's celebrated around the world
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Why is Hanukkah so late this year and how it's celebrated around the world

Hindustan Times  

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after …

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What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world
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3 weeks ago

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world

Associated Press  

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after …

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Five facts you didn’t know about Hanukkah
1 year ago

Five facts you didn’t know about Hanukkah

The Independent  

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What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world
1 year, 1 month ago

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world

Associated Press  

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication,” and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after …

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What to know about Hannukah and how it's celebrated around the world
1 year, 1 month ago

What to know about Hannukah and how it's celebrated around the world

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah …

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Hamas militants destroyed the kibbutz; these SoCal residents mourn and help rebuild
1 year, 2 months ago

Hamas militants destroyed the kibbutz; these SoCal residents mourn and help rebuild

LA Times  

A memorial and fundraiser for those killed and kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel during the Hamas attack was held in Southern California on Nov. 2. Pictures of those killed at Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel during the Hamas attack are displayed at a memorial and fundraiser in Southern California on Thursday. Guests listen to survivors’ stories during a …

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The American centre’s embrace of the far right fuels Israel’s war machine
1 year, 2 months ago

The American centre’s embrace of the far right fuels Israel’s war machine

Al Jazeera  

Peace will only come to Palestine if American centrists break with the far right and adopt a new approach on Israel. Successive centre-right US governments have backed Israel’s bloody “right to defend itself” with billions of dollars of military aid every year going back to 1971. Raskin’s office offered a compilation of “resources to assist US citizens in the region”, …

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The weird way language affects our sense of time and space
2 years, 2 months ago

The weird way language affects our sense of time and space

BBC  

The weird way language affects our sense of time and space Jun Chen/Alamy The language you speak can have surprising effects on the way you perceive space and time The languages we speak can have a surprising impact on the way we think about the world and even how we move through it. We know that people often use metaphors …

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Sally Rooney denies Israeli publisher rights for Hebrew translation of new book amid Palestine tension
3 years, 2 months ago

Sally Rooney denies Israeli publisher rights for Hebrew translation of new book amid Palestine tension

The Independent  

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Hollywood’s search for the next ‘Shtisel’ brings boom times to Israeli TV
3 years, 11 months ago

Hollywood’s search for the next ‘Shtisel’ brings boom times to Israeli TV

LA Times  

A wiretapping soldier in 1973 warns breathlessly that Israel is about to be overrun by 1,600 Syrian tanks. Israeli television has inspired several American series, beginning more than a decade ago with “In Treatment,” a psychotherapy drama on HBO, and including the most successful adaptation of them all, Showtime’s counterterrorism thriller “Homeland.” With the rise of streaming, though, this pipeline …

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How I survived the Zoom-bie apocalypse: 2020 offered (virtual) front row seats to everything we wanted to see
4 years ago

How I survived the Zoom-bie apocalypse: 2020 offered (virtual) front row seats to everything we wanted to see

Firstpost  

This essay is part of a series examining how the screen shaped our experiences of work, leisure, socialising/connections, the outdoors, outreach/activism, learning, record-keeping in 2020. That was of course two seconds before 2020 became 2020 — the new and updated version of Murphy’s Law that no one saw coming. Also in this series — Virtual fatigue, virtual joy: In 2020, …

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