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Their daily bread - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
With two successful restaurants under their belts, Focachetta and Focaccia Bar owners Mazal and Ram Yedid are enjoying their bounty.
Bad news on their doorstep - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
Jaffa Road store owners protest a tram station that blocks their entrance.
Showing Jerusalem as it is - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
Documentary maker Liz Nord hopes to get the word out internationally that there are events and activities happening in Jerusalem that the major TV networks don’t normally publicize.
‘By the time we got to Woodstock....’ - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
Get out your flowing dresses, floral headbands and bell-bottoms because the Kraft Stadium will be rocking for the second annual Jerusalem Woodstock Revival.
The indigenous picture - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
For the first time, this year's Hutzot Hayotzer arts and crafts fair will offer a look at indigenous Australian works of art.
Exhibiting fair and square - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
Now including more countries, as well as the permanent members of the
artists’ collective, this year Hutzot Hayotzer promises to be bigger than ever.
Corridors of Power: Association game - Fri, 30 Jul 2010
The dispute between the mayor and the parents’ association head is far from being resolved.
‘Radiating a message of culture’ - Sat, 24 Jul 2010
Israel Museum director James Snyder discusses its reopening this week following major renovations.
Waiter, there’s locusts on my plate! - Fri, 23 Jul 2010
‘Chain of tradition’ dinner tucks into outlandish kosher grub.
In a new light - Thu, 22 Jul 2010
On the eve of the Israel Museum’s grand reopening, architect James Carpenter reveals how he reinforced the existing site while creating access to the landscape.
Cityfront: On the mend - Thu, 22 Jul 2010
After years of financial distress, Bikur Cholim Hospital is showing signs of recovery.
Grapevine: Heart in hand - Thu, 22 Jul 2010
Emotional letdown after solidarity of Schalit march.
Still out, but no longer down - Thu, 22 Jul 2010
The Jerusalem Open House has long experienced hostility and alienation, the low point being the violent haredi riots preceding the 2006 gay pride parade. What the gay and lesbian organization didn’t expect was a lack of recognition from a city headed by a secular mayor.
Religious gay group Hevruta helps deal with identity - Thu, 22 Jul 2010
"All the participants share something in common."
Street Stroll: Rehov Klausner - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Street once home to Nobel Prize winner S.Y. Agnon is named for Amos Oz’s great uncle.
Cornering the supermarket? - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Some people fear that the Jewish and Arab employees of the new Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion could be heading down the aisle in more ways than one.
The art of town planning - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Wrapping up a month at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, urban planner Josh Sirefman discusses the challenge of conceiving projects in a historical, densely populated and politically charged city.
Nüremberg lore - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
A German-language film documenting the Nuremberg trials has been restored in English more than 60 years later.
How the mighty have fallen - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Forged as a party on the city council and grown into a national movement to provide a voice for then-overlooked Sephardi haredim, Shas’s local faction is now experiencing a steady deterioration.
Corridors of Power: Never a yes-woman - Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Outgoing city comptroller Shlomit Rubin proved to three mayors she was no pushover.
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