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David Sheen is a reporter and content editor at Haaretz.com.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Sheen has blogged online since he first moved to Israel in 1999. He has authored award-winning blogs on ecological sustainability and social justice.

Sheen also directed the short film The Red Pill and the feature film First Earth, and was a featured speaker at TEDxJohannesburg in 2010.

Latest Articles by David Sheen
Yoni Wiseman - Photos by Olivier Fitoussi - 16122011
Hashtag as fashion statement

Anglo leverages Twitter handles to make a new jewelry hit.

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aicat - Moti Milrod - December 9 2011
Where Far East meets Middle East

Students from Southeast Asia gain hands-on experience with local farming practices in the Arava desert.

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video - Michal Fattal - December 9 2011
Absorption Ministry stands by under-fire campaign

Two of three controversial videos meant to convince citizens living abroad to return to Israel remain online despite criticism by U.S. Jews.

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Schechter campus  - Courtesy - 02122011
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies to open new Jerusalem campus

A new $8.5 million building includes a synagogue, study hall and library, built on land purchased by the Conservative Jewry's Theological Seminary of America in the mid-1950s.

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hazon yeshaya - Yulia  Mestechkin
U.K. supporter forces audit of major Israeli soup kitchen

British supporters of Hazon Yeshaya say they were compelled to halt the transfer of funds after they had 'heard rumors' of financial irregularities.

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U.S. rabbi sent to Poland on mission to revitalize Jewish community

Katowice has a confirmed Jewish community of 120, but its new chief rabbi, Yehoshua Ellis, expects the actual number may be ten times that.

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Local philanthropists look to power of the masses for gift-giving venture

Israeli-South African couple asks public to forgo presents in favor of charity.

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new bus stops - Daniel Bar-On - 18112011
New Hebrew-only bus signs confound English speakers

Before, signs featured information about lines, routes and times in English and Hebrew, now, new signs drop English.

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takdim - Courtesy - November 4 2011
Israeli group based on U.S. model looks to GA for guidance

New Ramat Hasharon foundation Takdim hopes to learn from Jewish Federations of North America as it aims to stand on equal ground with Diaspora communities.

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Israeli group based on U.S. model looks to General Assembly for guidance

Takdim launched in Ramat Hasharon in May as social startup with aims to raise funds from local citizens to contribute to town development, and donate to select projects outside the city, even outside of Israel.

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Linda Zisquit - David Sheen - 28102011
Anglo translators / Third in a series / Keeping it rough around the edges

How do you make a anarchic Hebrew poem full of biblical allusions work in English? Linda Zisquit seems to have it figured out.

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A Bedouin woman in Canada Park
Israeli plan to relocate 30,000 Bedouin a gross injustice, say researchers

Critics say plan to appropriate land from unrecognized village would not grant adequate reparation nor sufficient compensation for those unable to receive proper documentation to purchase new homes.

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A nomadic American sheds light on Israel's Bedouin

Clinton Bailey's fourth book, a controversial tome dealing with Bedouin and the Hebrew Bible, posits that Moses, who fled Egypt into the ancestors of the Bedouin, adopted their way of life and their deity as his own before leading the Jews to freedom.

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LIVE BLOG: The Gilad Shalit prisoner swap as it happens

A minute-by-minute update of the exchange between Israel and Hamas as it unfolded.

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Diplomatic tabernacles

British Ambassador Matthew Gould decorates Sukkah with Israelis of the organization AKIM, who live with developmental challenges; U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro celebrates Sukkot with his family.

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Anglo translators / First in a series / 'Like being the dance partner of the greatest dancer'

Hillel Halkin delights in translating the great masters.

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'Born-again Ziontist' revolutionizing solar energy field

Professor David Faiman of Israel's National Solar Energy Center is dedicated to ensuring the country's 'energy independence'.

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Neighbors fear U.K. envoy's home will become high-rises

Embassy announced plans last week to sell building on Simtat Hama'alot Street, which has been in continuous use by top British diplomats since the 1950s and is fondly remembered by members of the Anglo-Israeli community.

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In honor of the New Year, Anglo File is highlighting who we see as the 10 most influential members of the English-speaking immigrant community, people who stood out in 5771 and made a difference.

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Kivunim - Rachid Daoudi - September 2011
Morocco university holds first Holocaust conference in Arab world

Only prior meeting held in Muslim world was a 2006 Iranian conference, widely denounced by Jewish leaders as an attempt to discredit the Holocaust.

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WATCH: New YouTube video pokes fun at Palestinian statehood bid

Anonymously-authored music video for Arabic song ‘Blue Chair’ appears to be the work of Palestinians who believe the diplomatic efforts to be misplaced.

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TedX - Moti Milrod - 16-9-2011
American-Israeli leverages power of TEDx for coexistence conference in Jaffa

A hundred Jews, Arabs and internationals from around the country congregated at Jaffa's East-West House last Wednesday for a day of lectures by local academics and activists.

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Barefoot in the Park - Rafi Poch - 09092011
Former Center Stage director sets up new theater company in the capital

Rafi Poch says amateur English-language theater can benefit young immigrants who arrive with their families.

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Take my country - please

English-speaking immigrants convert eccentricities of Israel into Facebook gold.

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Glenn Beck rallies draw support from diffuse ideologues

Neo-liberal Anglo-Israelis find economic kindred-spirit in American pendant, though some of his religious views aren't their cup of tea; tea suitable for a kosher tea party, that is.

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