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EST 1917

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JTA is live blogging Election Day in Israel.  10:56 p.m.— Well, it’s official — sort of. Exit polls show the Likud-Beiteinu ticket coming in first with 31 seats. Yesh Atid came in second, with 18. Final results should be available in the morning. Till then, layla tov.  6:11 p.m. — In an attempt to boost supposedly […]

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In the centuries before the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster, the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl was the site of a vibrant Jewish community. German Jewish artist Marion Kahnemann recently created a mixed-media series depicting the Chernobyl region and its Jewish past. “Hinter dem rücken der Zeit” (“Behind the Back of Time” – exhibit PDF here) is her interpretation of the region’s […]

At the north end of Rothschild Blvd., several rugs lay spread out, covering the grassy median between the street’s lanes. At one end of them, a few young people sat at folding tables, typing on laptops and calling out to passersby. At the other end stood equipment for a band – a drum set, a few […]

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