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Tel Aviv? Galilee? 2010 has been a banner year for Israel

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Elyse Glickman, JE Feature

It's been a record year for Israel travel -- indeed, the country just greeted its 3 millionth visitor this past week, with expectations of 3.3 million by year's end, breaking a two-year-old record. Statistics culled by EL AL Airlines and Israel's tourism office reflect the fact that the idea of traveling back to the origins of Jewish faith and culture...

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Taking a Gambol Outside Sin City

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Lauren Kramer, JE Feature

It's been called America's fastest growing Jewish community, a city that's home to some 70,000 Jews, up from 20,000 just 15 years ago. Las Vegas may seem like an odd place for spirituality, but it boasts 23 synagogues and four mikvahs within a short drive of the Strip. Numbers it may have, but the rate of Jewish affiliation with area...

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Twenty Years Later

Does Berlin offer a 'Wilkommen' to its Jews?

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Andrew Marcione, JE Feature

One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany was formally united once more on Oct. 3, 1990. At that time, there were approximately 25,000 Jews in the country; however, the nation would soon find itself facing an unprecedented influx of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union and its break-away bloc states. In the last two decades, Germany's Jewish...

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O.C. Can You See?

Star-spangled activities abound in Laguna Beach

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Elyse Glickman, JE Feature

Laguna Beach and its Orange County environs are no strangers to pop culture or a reputation that defines it as haven for all things WASP-y. However, don't let that possibly keep you away from what could be a delightful California getaway by the sea, complete with some very pleasant surprises. Through '60s teen movies, a generation got to know Orange...

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A Kiss of St. Kitts

A small Caribbean charmer of plantation pleasures

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Sharon McDonnell, JE Feature

I did two life sentences in the cold." Celebrating his freedom after 30 years as a builder and designer in chilly England and Wales, Kevin Horstwood was lazing on the veranda of Rawlins Plantation Inn, a former 17th-century sugarcane plantation he owns on the island of St. Kitts. On one side, we face a lush garden resplendent in magenta, pink...