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Yes you CAN get great pancakes in Israel

Michael Brown is a real cool cat. He lives with two other cats on a Florentin rooftop where he cooks, fuses glass, and plays the mandolin badly. Michael started cooking in self-defense from the fried bologna and hamburger helper favored by his otherwise-lovely flatmates. He blogs about food, art, and whatever takes his fancy at http://accidentalrecipe.blogspot.com. Michael will be blogging on Food, Recipes and anything else that comes to his unusual mind.

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Semantic Insight into Parashat Toldot – Gen. 25:19-28:10

Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. The main narrative of the entire Book of Genesis-Bereshit  is the struggle between brothers over the blessing (which is also a curse) to become a leader for humankind. There are six such scenes in Genesis, roughly parallel with the six day pattern of chapter one.

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Yaakov and Esav represent cosmic forces in Creation – Parshat Toldot

  Another viewpoint of this weeks Torah/Bible portion: by Yehuda HaKohen. After two decades of marriage to Yitzhak, Rivka’s womb is finally opened as HaShem blesses the couple with children. There is, however, something irregular about her pregnancy.

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The Blinding of Isaac and Is It Really About Lies – David Hazony

By David Hazony If you take a fresh, unadorned look at the life of Isaac, son of Abraham, you might feel like you’ve walked into a bad remake of a great film. Many of the same plot lines are there, but without much of the magic.

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Israeli’s Detect Lung Cancer In Breath & Sludge into Electricity

By .  A researcher collaboration between scientists at University of Colorado–Denver and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has successfully tested a gold nanoparticle (GNP)-based sensor that can detect lung cancer (LC) markers in a patient’s breath.

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Discovering and Finding Meaning

by: Jeff Pulver  The following is a transcription from an interview I did during the #140conf Tel Aviv back on November 2nd. Wish the start of the holiday season, I wanted to share these words with the community of people whom have been supporters of #140conf since 2009

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