Word: jerusalem
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...chose older houses that had been refurbished, so that the birds could return to familiar haunts. The birdhouses are plain pinewood, about the size of a shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth, and oversees 16 other conservation programs. "We had eight pairs breeding in our boxes last year. We can't say yet that...
...city of Jerusalem may end up paying a heavy price for Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign. That's what the hawkish Israeli prime minister is being accused of in the wake of his decision to close Orient House, the Palestinian Authority's unofficial headquarters in the city. Israeli opposition leaders charged on Friday that Netanyahu made the move knowing that likely Palestinian unrest in the heart of Jerusalem would work for him on the eve of Israel's election. "This may have created a very dangerous situation, but it's politically expedient for Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa...
...faith. Pilgrims can visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran and climb (on their knees) the "Holy Steps" of Pontius Pilate's palace which Jesus traversed several times on the day he was condemned and crucified. Less dominating, but more profound, in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, large pieces of the crosses of both Jesus and one of the thieves crucified with him are displayed in a side chapel, along with two thorns from the crown of thorns that adorned Jesus' head in his final hours...
Drawing on the traditions of Yiddish storytelling and on his visions of nearly identical Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and in Jerusalem, Englander presents a group of stories relevant both in and outside of the religious sphere. The readers may find some of Englander's untranslated Yiddish and Hebrew phrases and his references to Orthodox Jewish customs unfamiliar, but the collection is accessible to anyone. It is not necessary to come from a demanding religious tradition in order to empathize with his characters...
...using a different style from that employed in the rest of the collection, Englander brings his readers into the violence of the present moment. While most of the stories contain middle-aged characters dealing with mid-life types of problems, this story follows Natan/Nathan, a young American living in Jerusalem who Narrowly avoids a nearby suicide bombing. The story, divided into numerous short segments, is told in choppy, metaphorical phrases: "Like wild birds frightened. Like people possessed, tearing at their forms trying to set something free." The separations of the text and the style of Englander's sentences capture...