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Natalia Osipova will be dancing with the Israel Ballet:

21-22 Sept. 2019.

Tickets: bestbravo.il.co

 

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A small 7th century BCE clay sealing reading 'Belonging to Adoniyahu, Royal Steward,' recently discovered in the City of David's sifting project, taken from earth excavated under Robinson's Arch. (Eliyahu Yanai/Courtesy City of David)



Tiny First Temple seal impression inscribed with Bible-era royal steward’s name

 

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(JTA) — For “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his boorish and sometimes bigoted opinions. In “Who Is America,” the Jewish actor creates a variety of characters who manage to get prominent Americans to say shockingly offensive things.

In “The Spy,” he once again goes undercover, but in a very different way. The Jewish actor and filmmaker portrays the real-life Eli Cohen, a daring Israeli agent who embedded himself in the upper echelons of Syrian society in the 1960s and provided crucial intelligence to the Jewish state.

Released Friday, the espionage thriller is already getting plenty of buzz. Here’s a look at the wild and true story that it is based on.


The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

 

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Yishay Ribo, Amir Dadon and 'Amir Benayoun - Won Everything With Me

What a luck that there's You
You always play, always complete with Yourself
Blessed You're caressing the strings of Your love
What a luck

What a luck that there's You
You understand me and show me myself
Excited as a child indulged in You
Eventually I stay with You

Eventually I come every night
The secrets of Your modesty You let me learn
And You had mercy for me like a mother
And You were victorious (also conducted) with me over everything

What a luck that there's You
I'm immersed in the hidden of You, love what is revealed
I'm slave to Your wisdom and there's nothing sane about You
What a luck there's You

- Jerusalem of gold eventually I come every night
The secrets of Your modesty You let me learn
And You had mercy for me like a mother
And You were victorious (also conducted) with me over everything! -



Already an Israeli classic, the song was written and composed by Benayoun,
initially about the music itself....

 

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Create Your Roots

FEATURED PHOTO: In Jewish Life, Trees are the symbol of continuity.

She is a tree of life to those who grasp her,
And whoever holds on to her is happy.
Proverbs 3:18 (The Israel Bible™)

 

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Sunrise over the Jordan Valley
Photo Credit: Avi Zeidel

"In the morning, I will sing of Your mercy, for You are my fortress."
Psalms 59:17

 

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Ahmed Nassar Yassin with 4,500-year-old artifacts he discovered in a burial cave near Araba in northern Israel. (Nir Distelfeld/Israel Antiquities Authority)


4,500-year-old burial artifacts chanced upon by electrician on his way to work

 

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Tiny 500,000-year-old flake from Revadim site: reconstruction of hand-grip during use. (Dr. Flavia Venditti and Prof. Ran Barkai/Tel Aviv University)

Dainty 500,000-year-old blades show man used finesse to chow down on elephants

 

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Israel’s national baseball team advances to quarterfinals of the European Baseball Championship in early Olympic qualifying tournament.

Israeli baseball team advances in Olympic qualifying tournament

 

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This Israeli fizzy drink is the best way to use up summer fruits

 

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7th century BC stamp bearing name of King David's son unearthed in Jerusalem.

 

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A long lost chapter of the Jews in Diaspora.

Afghanistan is the last place you’d expect to find any trace of a Jewish past, especially given the Islamization of most of the country over the past two decades by the ruthless Taliban. Yet, up until the assassination of King Nadir Shah in 1933, the country had been remarkably tolerant towards Jews for over a thousand years. Major Afghan cities such as Herat and Kabul were once safe-havens for Jews fleeing persecution in other lands. The Jews of Afghanistan once numbered in the thousands and enjoyed peace and prosperity.

Today there is only one Jew left who still calls Afghanistan home.

The recorded story of the Afghan Jews starts in the 900‘s C.E., two centuries after the country was converted to Islam. This is not because Jews did not live there before that time, but rather that all records which might have proven the existence of a pre-Islamic Jewish community in Afghanistan have been lost. However, there are some Afghan tribes such as the Durrani, Yussafzai, and, most notably, the Pashtun who claim to be one of the Ten Lost Tribes. In the case of the Pashtun, now Afghanistan’s majority ethnic group, one of their tribal legends states that a group called the “Bani Israel” settled near the modern town of Herat and later converted to Islam after their leader met with Mohammed.

Jewish Virtual Library states that some Pashtuns have Jewish sounding names such as Asheri and Naftali, and they practice Jewish customs such as marrying under a chuppah and circumcising their sons eight days after birth. Adding further fuel to the fire, the sensationalist media even published a report a few years ago claiming that the members of the Taliban may be descended from Jews. An Israeli government-funded DNA test found no link at all between Jews and Pashtuns.

The Jewish History of Afghanistan

 

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