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...might have been the jet lag, or the Bushmills, or the fact that I don't sing and can't dance, but my cousin's wedding, in an artists' colony in western Galilee, had left me feeling a little disjointed. Like most clean-shaven agnostic half-Jews, I get slightly nervous around Hasidim, perhaps because we can't both be right about life. And though my cousin is of mixed-blood, like me, and was never particularly religious, his wedding guests included real-deal Hasids: Ultra-Orthodox men chanting and praying and rocking back and forth, in their fedora hats...
...wedding, you may recall, was attacked by deatheaters. But this wedding night was uneventful - even the lights of the Druze and Arab villages twinkled benignly in the hills. At one point in the evening, a gregarious Lubavitcher named Shalom Pasternak, who sings in a band he created with my cousin called Kabbalah Dream Orchestra, was helping my cousin dispense shots of whisky and blessings to his friends and family. With his beautiful bride, and - let's face it - some fascinating friends, he was every bit the Half-Blood Prince. We were all glad to see it, wizard and muggle alike...
...debate just how official William's training program has been. In a separate trip on April 11, the Prince piloted a Chinook to his cousin's bachelor party on the Isle of Wight in southern England. On that trip, he stopped off at Woolwich Barracks in London to pick up his brother, Prince Harry, who has been stationed there since returning in late February from a 10-week army deployment in Afghanistan's embattled Helman Province...
...country - like the family of Eddie in "Those Who Serve, Those Who Do Not." In this story, as in life, an absconder like Eddie can't return to Singapore without facing prosecution. But his sister Joanne returns from her comfortable, pseudo exile in Sydney to visit Uncle Sam and cousin Peter. They did not have the means of escape and instead relied on a powerfully Singaporean stoicism to get them through military duty, embodying qualities Joanne's family too blithely left behind. "She looked at the thousands of HDB [Housing & Development Board] homes that fanned out from either side...
...traditional Iraqi musical performance and discussion about the modern-day issues raised by the films.Hassan M.H. Al-Damluji, a British citizen of Iraqi descent and a second-year master’s degree candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, organized the event with help from his cousin Tamara Jafar ’09. Al-Damluji hopes the festival will help create greater awareness of Iraqi culture and society in America. The festival, he says, will “really celebrate Iraqi culture and give the spotlight to Iraq as a cultural producer.”Since...