Topic: Jaffa
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Palestinians mark Nakba Day with slingshots, despite calls for calm
Nakba Day, translated to 'catastrophe day,' marks the day the state of Israel was created and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced.
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Change Agent
Ballroom dance instructor teaches poise, grace, respect, and fun
Ballroom dance instructor Pierre Dulaine helps kids from all backgrounds in New York City and around the world gain confidence and other life skills through ballroom dancing.
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Q&A: Why only 51 percent of Israelis support equal rights for Arab minority
A survey released this week showed stark views of the country's Arab minority, whose growing presence is challenging Israel's claim to being 'Jewish and democratic.'
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/16
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 05/25
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Hummus wars: Israelis respond to Lebanon's world record dish
Lebanon took the title of world's largest hummus dish from Israel. But Israelis now say taste matters more than size.
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Ajami: movie review
A crime film set in an Israeli town, 'Ajami' captures with great honesty and energy some of the ethnic snarls between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
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Israeli-Arab film 'Ajami' spotlights tough, gentrifying Jaffa
The makers of the Israeli-Arab film 'Ajami,' which was nominated for an Oscar, saw their depiction of drug dealing and poverty in Jaffa collide with reality earlier this week, when two of them were arrested.
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Israel's other Israel: the Tel Aviv 'bubble'
Far from suicide bombers and West Bank settlements, the cosmopolitan city is an economic engine – and out of step, some say.
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For a few minutes, Arabs and Jews united by music
Young musicians from a West Bank refugee camp performed on Wednesday for survivors of the Holocaust.
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After Gaza war, a harder coexistence for Jews and Arabs
Israeli groups that focus on Jewish and Arab coexistence are just beginning to wrestle with the fallout from the Gaza war.
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Napoleon in Egypt
An insightful look at Napoleon's 'other army' – the Savants who stormed Egypt.
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Israelis weigh Jerusalem vulnerabilities in wake of bulldozer attack
For Palestinians in areas of Jerusalem seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the attack reinforces their precarious status in-between their countrymen in the West Bank and Israel.
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The newest Israeli-Palestinian fault line: gentrification
Jewish newcomers to the traditionally Arab district of Jaffa in Tel Aviv – arriving for cheaper rents and sea views – are driving development that is putting pressure on poorer Arab residents.
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