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A battle over a Congolese statue owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has thrust the local museum into the international spotlight. The item in question is a wooden statue of Maximilien Balot that is currently on display in the African art galleries at the VMFA
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click to enlarge Photo via Google Maps The site for the proposed "City Center at Hanna Ave" project at 2515 E Hanna Ave in Seminole Heights East. The center is currently being built on an 11-acre lot at 2515 E Hanna Ave.
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When it came to helping the Bay Area Jewish community thrive, Paul Cohen was an idea-generating machine. Friends say hed crank out suggestions by the dozen.
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip In a brightly lit classroom in Gaza, a teacher spells out Hebrew words on a whiteboard, followed attentively by Maher Al-Farra and dozens of other Palestinians hoping to take advantage of an opening up of employment opportunities in Israel. Increased demand for the classes at the Nafha languages center follows a new offer of work permits by Israel as it has moved to calm border tensions following an 11-day war in May with Hamas, the Islamist group which rules the Gaza Strip
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Please join us for Learning About Learning: A Conversation with Professor Sharon Avni on Accentuating the American Jewish Hebrew Speaker. This conversation will focus on Sharon Avnis recent work on how the everyday acts of speaking, learning and engaging with modern Hebrew inform our understanding of contemporary American Jewish life. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
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Gadeer Kamal-Mreehs roots were planted the moment she was born in Daliyat al-Karmel.
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GREECE-ISRAEL-NORWAY-FRAUD - Credit: TORE KRISTIANSEN.AFP/Getty Images Simon Leviev, the so-called Tinder Swindler, is being sued by the diamond-rich family he claimed to be a part of as he allegedly bilked millions from young women he met on the dating app. The lawsuit was filed in the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court in Israel on behalf of the Leviev family, whose patriarch, Lev Leviev, is a billionaire diamond magnate
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The Voice of Silence, The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR, Ephraim Kholmyansky, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021 284 pages; $22.63 (Paperback) By Toby Klein Greenwald In a frosty February of 1988, I took a short drive from my home in Efrat to Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim, in Gush Etzion.
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A new species of desert burrow-dwelling spiders not known to the scientific community have been discovered by Israeli researchers in the southern part of the country.
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Paco Dez is something of a musical wizard.
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