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safed
Passing an art legacy on to the next generation
During the lengthy visits she would have with her great-uncle and great-aunt, David and Rivka Labkovski, at their home in South Africa, Leora Raikin — who was a young girl at the time — recalls these relatives being a bit eccentric.
American indicted in Israel for murder
An American accused of murdering a Safed resident was indicted in an Israeli court.
EU official lauds Israel for treating injured Syrians
A European Union official based in Israel praised the Jewish state for providing medical treatment to Syrian civilians injured in their country’s civil war.
No Western Wall bat mitzvah for Paula Abdul after all
Paula Abdul canceled her much-hyped bat mitzvah at the Western Wall, opting instead for a low-key ceremony in the town of Safed, The Times of Israel reports.
Orthodoxy and ethics
One of the most prominent Orthodox rabbis of our time, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, related the following story in the July 12-18 issue of the International Jerusalem Post:
Civilian airspace in northern Israel closed over fears
Israel closed the airspace in its North to civilian traffic following attacks on Syrian targets that were believed to be carried out by the Israeli military.
Six Syrian rebels hospitalized in Israel returned to Syria
Six wounded Syrian rebels who were treated in an Israeli hospital after being wounded in their country\’s civil war were repatriated.
Jailed in Israel, Marwan Barghouti says he’ll be president of Palestine
Marwan Barghouti, a convicted terrorist jailed in Israel, said he will be the president of a Palestinian state.
Dybbuks, demons and exorcism in Judaism
Rabbi Isaac Luria, one of the greatest of Jewish mystics, would walk in the hills of 16th century Safed and point out to his students the souls of the dead, often standing on their graves. In the same city at the same time, the great legal scholar Joseph Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, the great code of Jewish Law, was composing another book dictated to him by an angel.