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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/amos-oz-overwhelmed-by-film-documenting-familys-past/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/12/Oz-and-family-watching-the-film-Dec-10-2014-credit-Olga-Noa-Lavie-Limmud-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Author Amos Oz  (center) and family watching the film documenting daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger&#039;s roots tour to Ukraine, Dec. 10, 2014. (Olga Noa Lavie /Limmud)" title="Author Amos Oz  (center) and family watching the film documenting daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger&#039;s roots tour to Ukraine, Dec. 10, 2014. (Olga Noa Lavie /Limmud)" /></a>
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								Amos Oz &#8216;overwhelmed&#8217; by film documenting family&#8217;s past							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/amos-oz-overwhelmed-by-film-documenting-familys-past/">Celebrated Israeli author touched by daughter's journey retracing his mother's steps in Ukraine</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/border-instability-brings-ukrainians-jews-closer-says-jewish-ngo/">At Lviv's Limmud FSU conference, leaders say the surge in armed attacks on the borders with Russia compel non-Jewish Ukrainians to sympathize with Israel</a>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/limmud-fsu-goes-back-to-galicia-to-build-a-jewish-future/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/11/21-e1415829579906-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)" title="Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)" /></a>
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								Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/limmud-fsu-goes-back-to-galicia-to-build-a-jewish-future/">Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning -- and community building</a>
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							By <a title="Yifa Yaakov" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/yifa-yaakov/">Yifa Yaakov</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iphone-6s-price-in-israel-among-highest-in-the-world/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/10/000_Hkg10110921-e1414064663891-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Store attendants help customers at an Apple store selling the iPhone 6 in Beijing on October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Greg Baker/AFP)" title="Store attendants help customers at an Apple store selling the iPhone 6 in Beijing on October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Greg Baker/AFP)" /></a>
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							By <a title="Yifa Yaakov" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/yifa-yaakov/">Yifa Yaakov</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-says-elusive-military-chief-deif-alive/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/08/000_Nic6362952-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="A digger removes cement and debris on August 20, 2014, of a home destroyed the night before in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City&#039;s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, targeting the elusive Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)" title="A digger removes cement and debris on August 20, 2014, of a home destroyed the night before in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City&#039;s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, targeting the elusive Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)" /></a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-says-elusive-military-chief-deif-alive/">Israel 'failed' to kill Gaza military leader over the summer, but did kill his wife and 2 children, says Mashaal</a>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-pelt-jerusalem-kindergarten-with-rocks/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2014/10/F110526MA57-e1414054266818-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Jewish boys play before a dedication ceremony for the Jewish neighborhood of Ma&#039;ale HaZeitim, inside the Arab-dominated area of Ras el Amud in East Jerusalem, May 25, 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)" title="Jewish boys play before a dedication ceremony for the Jewish neighborhood of Ma&#039;ale HaZeitim, inside the Arab-dominated area of Ras el Amud in East Jerusalem, May 25, 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)" /></a>
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													<div class="date">October 23, 2014, 11:57 am</div>
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								Palestinians pelt Jerusalem kindergarten with rocks							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-pelt-jerusalem-kindergarten-with-rocks/">A day after deadly terror attack, the capital's light rail also targeted, with no end in sight for violence; police vow 'zero tolerance'</a>
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