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Protesters burning a poster of President Donald Trump in front of the Damascus Gate at the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, Dec. 11, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday during a visit with French President Emanuel Macron that Jerusalem was as much Israel’s capital as Paris was France’s, and that recognition of this fact was necessary for peace.
Read MoreIsraelis quietly fry up a humbler doughnut called the sfinj. The confection hails from North Africa, and is a favorite of Jews whose families came to Israel from the region. But even European Jews have adopted the sfinj and helped push it toward the limelight.
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Anthony Scaramucci, center, speaking alongside officials of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce at a news conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Nov. 21, 2017. (Courtesy of Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce)
When he was not touting his Jewish ties on the trip, Anthony Scaramucci talked up the pro-Israel bona fides of his former boss, President Donald Trump.
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The Jewish National Fund collects money through donations in boxes that look like this. (Flickr Commons)
American Jews dropped nickels and dimes into the Jewish National Fund’s blue charity boxes to help Zionists build the Jewish state. More than a century later, the JNF, known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is rich.
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International fashion model Maayan Keret said she was raped at the age of 12. Since then, Keret said, she has been harassed or assaulted so many times she “stopped counting.”
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A Bukharan Jewish couple posing in coats lined with ikat weaving. (Courtesy of the Israel Museum/Mauro Magliani)
What does a full-body cloak associated with Islam have to do with Jewish fashions?
Read MoreIt is a custom especially beloved among Israeli teens. Despite the holiday’s somber character — and the scriptural prohibition of sex during the 25 hours of Yom Kippur — many look forward to Judaism’s holiest day as an opportunity for romance.
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Eli Mordechai showing off a crocodile-skin kippah at his Fifth Quarter store in Jerusalem, Sept. 12, 2017. (Screenshot from Facebook)
The Fifth Quarter Judaica store’s owner, Eli Mordechai, gamely showed off the kippahs, which are sold in fabric-lined oak boxes for as much as $1,400 each. They even come with built-in hair clips.
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Some of the thousands of horns lying around the Kol Shofar factory in the Golan Heights, Sept. 6, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)
Keinan said he sells about 7,000 shofars a year, at least 90 percent of them mail orders. Half are sold to Israelis, he said, while most of the rest go to Jews in the United States and Europe.
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Shani Naaman and Ran Vatkin enjoying the company of camels at their wedding in the Judean Desert, May 11, 2017. (Dana Bar-On)
“Nature weddings,” as they are sometimes called, are an increasingly popular option for young Israeli couples seeking unique nuptials.
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