I took a detour through the Negev town of Dimona earlier this week to stop in and visit the Kingdom of Yah, where some 2,800 followers of Ben Ammi, 68, live in a crowded kibbutz on the city’s outskirts. The African Hebrew Israelites hail mostly from Chicago but claim to be descendants of the lost […]
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Yah lives… in Dimona
October 11th, 2007 · 20 Comments
Enemy buddy bears in Jerusalem
August 30th, 2007 · 15 Comments
I wonder if the Lebanese or the Syrians for that matter know they’ve sent buddy bears to Israel, where they’re on display in Midan Safra in front of the Jerusalem municipality.
The Lebanese buddy bear
The Syrians have sent a buddy bear also.
Tags: Offbeat · Jerusalem · Lebanon · Syria
Gaza’s poor peacocks
June 25th, 2007 · No Comments
This from today’s Maariv newspaper:
While hundreds of refugees are abandoning their homes and fleeing the Gaza Strip, their house pets and farm animals are being left behind to die of hunger and thirst. Hedva, from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Jerusalem, said she had heard […]