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23 Jun Oriental Palm Sunday in Bethlehem

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According to the Julian Calendar, which is the liturgical calendar of the Oriental and Orthodox Churches, the Holy Week has begun with the holiday of Palm Sunday. The feast was celebrated to commemorate the day of Jesus' triumphal entry to Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago. The celebration "Palm Sunday" took its name after the events that happened in...

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23 Jun The Israel Trail – A Hiker’s Paradise

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Israel - arguably the world's largest small country and certainly its most diverse - is a hiker's paradise. Paths like the Bible Trail on Mount Gilboa,  the Gospel Trail or Jesus Trail in the Galilee, (published in the article "Hiking in the Spiritual Backcountry" June 23, 2012...

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23 Jun The Vitkin Winery: They’re Speaking My Language

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If you try enough wine and venture to enough wineries in Israel or most New World wine regions you'll get your full of Cabernet, Merlot and Chardonnay. Hmmn, maybe C.M.C. should be an acronym for "can't make choices". At the the Vitkin Winery in Kfar Vitkin, however,...

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23 Jun Rosh Hashanah Apple Tart

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A good friend of mine here in Israel, Abby Peleg, sent me this wonderful Rosh Hashanah recipe, care of the Smitten Kitchen,  which has got to be the most beautiful apple dessert that I've ever seen.She is vegetarian and therefore she will be making this for...

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23 Jun Catholics of Bethlehem Celebrate at Qasr El Yahud and the Mount of Temptation

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The Baptism of the Lord Celebration is a feast commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by the John the Baptist. The event is described in the Gospel of Matthew: "Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John" (Matt 3:13). In the Roman Catholic...

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23 Jun Where to Enjoy Israel’s Olive Harvest

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Olives have always played an integral role I the culture of the Holy Land.  Deuteronomy 8:8 includes olive oil as part of the seven species; seven agricultural products that have a special connection to the land of Israel.   During the time of Roman rule, the Holy Land...

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23 Jun Armenians Celebrate Maundy Thursday with the Washing of the Feet Ceremony

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Some 3,000 local Armenians, pilgrims, representatives of various Christian denominations, tourists and police packed St. James Cathedral in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City here today for the Maundy Thursday ritual of the washing of the feet rite in advance of Eastern Orthodox Easter....

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23 Jun Red Poetry Winery

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Like in most world wine regions there's a host of themes of how people get into winemaking. There's the industrialists who make oceans of wine, there are the artists who make small but often amazingly well crafted batches of bliss and then are growers who...

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23 Jun Find Jesus in Nature – Nahal Amud

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A secret pleasure on any Holy Land tour is discovering a place which is largely overlooked by the crowds but offers a unique atmosphere or experience not found anywhere else. Nazareth is certainly significant for any traveler seeking follow in the footsteps of Jesus and, of course,...

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23 Jun Easter at the Garden Tomb

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Whereas the Jerusalem Easter service for Catholics and Orthodox Christians takes place at the Holy Sepulchre church, Easter services for Protestants are held at the place revered by them as the site where Jesus died and rose again, the Garden Tomb. The layout of the Garden Tomb is...

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