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Welcome to Michal David’s world. This year she is celebrating 13 years of diverse, dynamic creation… Michal David is a wonderful artist and artisan from Israel, the Holy Land. Her inimitable designs of pictures, clocks, mirrors, jewelry boxes and more are well known for their classic romantic and Victorian style. Michal writes on her website, [...]

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A keen sports enthusiast, on his recent trip to Israel Ashton Kutcher also checked out the Israeli Nation basketball team in Shoam on Sunday. He tweeted: “Watching the Israel national team beat up Latvia in bball. Kind of surreal…” He was watching the 2011 EuroBasket qualifying match at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. Kutcher, [...]

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My Unique Gift Idea is happy to mention that 32-year-old actor and comedian, Ashton Kutcher was spotted last weekend touring the Holy Land. On the occasion of the birthday of the Kabbalah Center founder, Shraga Berg, Ashton toured the land of Israel with the daughter of Demi. The crew stayed at the Jerusalem Citadel Hotel [...]

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Razia Gershon is a talented Israeli-born sculptor who has focused her artwork from an early stage, on the aesthetic possibilities of the human body. Razia, in the early part of her career, studied modern ballet under modern dance pioneer, Gertrud Krauss and classical ballet under the celebrated, late Mia Arbatova. Razia worked as a physical [...]

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In the hilltop town above the Sea of Galilee, Hassidic Jews swarm stone alleys where sandal-shod New Agers sell Evil Eye Bracelets and organic hummus to tourists. I am describing the ancient Israeli city of Safed – also known as Tzfat – where the tourism boom which the Jewish Country is enjoying takes a Kabbalistic [...]

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A man named Itamar Gilboa is in the Israeli art spotlight this spring. His art debut in Israel just finished exhibiting at Jaffa’s Dresdner Gallery. Jaffa is the 6,000 year-old old city of Tel Aviv. A very cool place. The exhibition entitled, “Chief” deals with a man’s dream of becoming an Israeli Defense Forcs Seargent [...]

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Jack Jaget creates art in two main categories, Christian and Jewish. He is world famous for his book covers, wood work and religious crafts. Born and raised in the United States of America, Jack Jaget attained high levels of success as Art Director for the World Publishing Company. During his US stint he won such [...]

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The modern obsession with building fuel efficient cars notwithstanding, I thought I’d take some time to pedal an entirely different sort of vehicle. That is, the ceramic one. The advantages of a ceramic car? For one, it doesn’t need any gasoline, it’s a lot smaller, and it doesn’t require any maintenance. You can’t say no [...]

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With less than a month until the local debut of his purported masterpiece The Inglourious Basterds, director Quentin Tarantino is heading out to Israel for the film’s premier in the Jewish State on September 17. The film, a shockingly gory display of brutal Nazi-killing at the hands of a special team of eight Jewish-American soldiers [...]

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I just bought a car, and I live in Israel, which happens to be the only Middle Eastern country without ungodly massive amounts of oil reserves. That, and the countries that do have them around here don’t exactly like my country, so this makes gasoline riot-inspiringly expensive. It’s about $6.30 per gallon. If you had [...]

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