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Good News Friday

October 7, 2016 Ziy0nadmin

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/good-news-friday-184/It’s that time of year when our weeks are cut short or interrupted by festivals, and we get mixed up over which day it is. The day after Rosh Hashana (Wednesday) felt like Sunday because […]

07-Oct-16: In the aftermath of an Arab-on-Israeli knifing

October 7, 2016 Ian

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/ckOiBAhUJE4/07-oct-16-in-aftermath-of-aran-on.htmlSome two and a half weeks ago, we wrote here about one of those fairly ordinary terror attacks that keep getting brief mentions in the Israeli news media and – usually – no coverage or very […]

How Mashadi Jews preserved their culture

October 7, 2016 Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-mashadi-jews-preserved-their-culture.htmlThe story of the 1839 forced conversion of the Jews of Mashad to Islam is one of the darker episodes in the history of Persia.  The vast majority of their descendants have fled to the […]

Who’s afraid of the Minister of Sport and Culture?

October 7, 2016 Ziy0nadmin

http://abuyehuda.com/2016/10/whos-afraid-of-the-minister-of-sport-and-culture/Recently, as seems to happen on a regular basis, rumors spread about the Yitzhak Herzog’s Zionist Union (Labor + Tzipi Livni) party joining Netanyahu’s government. Supposedly there were negotiations over the Rosh Hashana holiday, and […]

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