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This video explores the common bonds between Israelis and Canadians. Featuring interviews with Canadian MPs and Israelis from all walks of life, the Israel Experience video shows what makes us alike. From the mall to the hockey rink, you'll get a taste of the real Israel.
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Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe. Cool Jew, written by Lisa Alcalay Klug, covers everything Hebraic from womb to tomb, finally putting an end to X-mas tree envy. Short essays, lists, instructional guides, photographs, and original illustrations celebrate Jewish cultural pride with love, enthusiasm, and irreverence. The daughter of an Ashkenazi Holocaust survivor and the descendant of a Sephardic chief rabbi of Sarajevo, Lisa Alcalay Klug is an American-born...
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Every year the Women in Green organization (led by Ruth and Nadia Matar) lead a massive march of Jewish people in a circle around the entire Old City Walls - it is one of the most inspiring of experiences - and often draws in excess of 10,000 participants. Here is a video from the march in 2007. Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av) is a full day of mourning and prayer commemorating the destruction of the Jewish Temples on the Har HaBayit (Temple Mounts). It is the only other full day of fasting...
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"The Beetle" Trailer - Yishai Orian, The film director, is married to Eliraz, and is in love with his old VW beetle. Eliraz is about to give birth to their first child. She is anxious to get rid of the jalopy which she feels is unsuitable for a baby. As the argument about the car heats up, Yishai goes on a journey that starts with the previous owners of the beetle, and ends with an attempt to save his old love. The Beetle received an Audience Top Ten Laurel at this year's Hot Docs, the...
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MARCH OF THE LIVING - (2007) - March of the Living is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built during World War II. The goal of the March of the Living is for these young people to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to lead the Jewish people into the future vowing Never Again. In April of 2006, the largest...
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