Strolling Through Life

A View From an Un-Orthodox Jewish Girl

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Thank you for standing together with Israel!

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Tel Aviv, Israel

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Sketchbook: a year in Jerusalem

By Vincent Mahé

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Herodium: The Palace and Tomb of King Herod

Located 12 km south of Jerusalem, in the Judean desert, Herodium looks like an extinct volcano, but it really is a fort built by King Herod the Great between 23 and 15 BC.

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Jewish survivors of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, some still in their camp clothing, stand on the deck of the refugee immigration ship Mataroa, on July 15, 1945 at Haifa port.

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The dreamy landscape around the Dead Sea.

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Israel pledges to reconstruct an entire village in Nepal

Efforts to take ‘several months'; providing emergency aid is ‘the most effective kind of diplomacy,’ Liberman says

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We can all do something to support Israel..

Even if it is just daring to speak the truth when a friend or colleague says something about Israel that you know isn’t true, or buying an Israeli product or fruit at your local supermarket.

If we all do SOMETHING, even in some small way, it will make a BIG difference!

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World's oldest complete example of 10 Commandments on rare display in Israel

JERUSALEM (AFP).- The oldest complete example of the Ten Commandments has gone on rare display in Jerusalem, part of the Israel Museum’s collection of the Dead Sea scrolls, an official said Wednesday.

Written in Hebrew more than 2,000 years ago, it is one of 870 scrolls discovered between 1947 and 1956 in the Qumran caves above the Dead Sea.

“It’s not usually exhibited… because it’s very sensitive and fragile,” a museum official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that it was being displayed in a climate-controlled glass case.

When not on show, the scrolls are kept in a dark, climate-controlled storeroom in conditions similar to those in the Qumran caves, where the humidity, temperature and darkness preserved them for two millennia. Read more.

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Veterans march through Jerusalem to mark WWII Victory in Europe Day

Scores of elderly veterans living in Israel marched on Sunday through Jerusalem’s city center in full military uniform to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, drawing cheers and amazed looks from onlookers. The men, who had fought for various European armies during the war, were smiling and waving as they walked the sunny streets of Jerusalem. “It’s very important that people remember this day. It’s very important that people come here, even 10 years from now when not all these veterans will be with us. It’s very important that this thing continues as a habit to come and celebrate this day," said Netali Palalo, the grandchild of a veteran who passed away. Israel usually observes the Nazi defeat on May 8, Victory in Europe day, as do most European countries.

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Today is apparently Eat What You Want Day (no complaints here!). May we suggest: Date cake with mandarin orange glaze

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Sussex Friends Of Israel

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This is a recording from 1945 from the liberation of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. They are singing “Hatikvah”(The Hope) which is about the hope shared by all Jews to be a safe and secure people in charge of our own destiny. This recording is the voice of a generation.

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The picture of IDF planes over the Birkenau gates says it all. This image summarizes the great change that has occurred in our nation’s history, from a helpless people at the mercy of our enemies to a people capable of defending itself

 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Remembering Six Million

Yom Hashoah 2015 begins at sundown on Wednesday, April 15.

Together, let’s light six million candles in memory of six million people who lived, learned, thrived, struggled, laughed, worked and loved.Light a candle to keep their memory alive

http://www.idfblog.com/RememberingSixMillion/

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We are the shoes, we are the last witness. We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers. From Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, and because we are only made of fabric and leather. And not of blood and flesh, each of us avoided the hellfire.

- Yiddish poet (Washington Holocaust Museum)

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For Yom Hashoah - Connecting past and present.