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Dreaming of dumplings in the camps: The forgotten culture of Czech Jewry At age 91, veteran writer and translator Ruth Bondy is publishing a book about the lost prewar culture and cuisine. By  Ronit Vered |  Nov. 1, 2014 | 10:00 AM Tweet Ruth Bondy.   Photo by Dan Perez Text size   Comments (0)   Print Page   Send to friend   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter   Share Illustration from “Not Just Kafka and the Golem,” by Jiri Sliva. Illustration from “Not Just Kafka and the Golem,” by Jiri Sliva. Ruth Bondy’s fifth-floor apartment in Ramat Gan offers a fine view of that city and the green treetops. Underneath the large window, stretching the length of the wall, is a low stand packed with dozens of flowering plants. “I didn’t put up curtains, because I wanted my plants to have sunlight,” says the slender 91-year-old, adding with a sly grin, “If the money runs out, I’ll start growin

An image grab taken from a video released by Islamic State group's official Al-Raqqa site via YouTube. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Foreign jihadists flocking to Iraq and Syria on 'unprecedented scale' – UN UN report suggests decline of al-Qaida has yielded an explosion of jihadist enthusiasm for its even mightier successor organisations, chiefly Isis ·          Spencer Ackerman   in New York ·            ·          theguardian.com ,   Thursday 30 October 2014 21.13 GMT ·          Jump to comments (1736) The United Nations has warned that foreign jihadists are swarming into the twin conflicts in Iraq and Syria on “an unprecedented scale” and from countries that had not previously contributed combatants to global terrorism. A report by the UN security council, obtained by the Guardian, finds that 15,000 people have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State (Isis) and similar extremist groups. They come from more than 80 c

Airstrikes against Islamic State do notseen to have affected flow of fighters to Syria More than 1,000 foreign fighters are streaming into Syria each month, a rate that has so far been unchanged by airstrikes against the Islamic State and efforts by other countries to stem the flow of departures, according to U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials. The magnitude of the ongoing migration suggests that the U.S.-led air campaign has neither deterred significant numbers of militants from traveling to the region nor triggered such outrage that even more are flocking to the fight because of American intervention. “The flow of fighters making their way to Syria remains constant, so the overall number continues to rise,” a U.S. intelligence official said. U.S. officials cautioned, however, that there is a lag in the intelligence being examined by the CIA and other spy agencies, meaning it could be weeks before a change becomes apparent. The trend line established over