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...place, especially on another continent. BRITNEY SPEARS told Elle magazine that she's mulling the name London Preston if the tyke due to exit her much on-display belly this fall is a boy. Spears' metropolitan moniker would mimic choices by David and Victoria Beckham, who call their boy Brooklyn; Bono, whose daughter is Memphis; Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, whose lass is Ireland; and Michael Jackson, whose princess is Paris. If Spears has a girl, she says, she'll call her Addison Shye. Addison is a county in Vermont. It's not glamorous, but it's probably very pretty...
...Americans in Gush Katif, the disengagement marks the bitter climax of an odyssey that spans a generation, one that has taken people like the Hilburgs from the streets of Brooklyn to the dusty farmland of the Gaza Strip. I spent a week with the Hilburgs and other U.S.-born settlers in the enclaves of Gush Katif as they prepared to uproot again. Their saga provides a glimpse of the honest dreams that inspired the struggle to realize the Zionist vision of Israel--and why even harder changes are required if that vision is to survive...
...Hilburgs and many other Americans like them came to Gaza. Only devout Jews lived there, and the Hilburgs are religious Zionists--what are called knitted-yarmulke Jews, who follow the Orthodox faith but not to the extremes of the ultra-religious. Born in 1949 to a pious family in Brooklyn's Borough Park, Sammy spent eight years in religious schools before transferring to a public high school, where he majored "in sports," he says. After a stint studying automotive mechanics, Sammy joined the Marine Corps in 1968 just in time to ship out to Vietnam. He was badly wounded twice...
...Bryna at a Bnei Akiva (a Zionist youth group) meeting in New York City, married her and made aliyah (literally, the ascent) to Israel. Bryna too was reared to Zionism, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy...
...growing army of travel bloggers show you the way. Traditional travel books often can't compete with the vast breadth of information on the Internet?or a dedicated blogger's constantly updated insights into his home turf or topic. So whether you're after the best burger in Brooklyn or the hottest hotel in Berlin, simply log on. There's a blogger waiting to help...