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Seeking The Ecological Market At Machane Yehuda in Jerusalem

Miriam sees Israel's most famous open-air market through new eyes. When I lived in Jerusalem, the Machane Yehuda shuk (market) was my grocery store. Vegetables,...

How Muslim Families Use Breastfeeding to Make Adopted Babies Their Own

Even if you didn't give birth to the baby, you can still feed it to make it "yours" in Muslim communities. Here's how.

Use heroin? Fund Terror

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CupsTelAviv: All You Can Drink Coffee for Under $50 a Month

All you can drink coffee for $50 a month at CupsTelAviv.

French Scientists Suggest Women Should Stop Wearing Bras

Science puts a new view forward in the anti-brassiere argument.  Women have bound their breasts since antiquity, for modesty's sake or to conform to an...

Are Digital Diet Utensils A Forking Joke?

Eating too fast leads to poor digestion and poor weight control.  No brainer. But do we need a digital fork to help adhere to...

I Scream, You Scream: Iran Targets World Ice Cream Record

An Iranian confectioner packed five tons of ice cream into a a single container to scoop a new world record in desserts. When you've just...

Is Sugar Toxic?

Increasing evidence shows that sugar is a natural enemy to the body. "Don't you think I know how hard it is, honey/To get some "sugar"...

Lupini Beans, Traditional Middle-Eastern Snack Food RECIPE

Known as turmos in the Levant, lupine beans - poor folk's food - are a tasty Middle-Eastern snack in need of more recognition. Except in some...

Make Kombucha Tea At Home

For centuries, kombucha lovers have been drinking the fizzy tea beverage and claiming amazing health benefits from it. Some people are now making hard...

Bill Gates Seeks Next Generation Condom

Build a Better Rubber, They will Come? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will grant $100k to the inventor of the next generation condom. Condoms...

Direct Seeding Helps Moroccan Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Farming is risky business in Morocco, where a 30 percent drop in precipitation since 1970 makes steady, predictable annual crop yields virtually impossible. So...

Sustainable Table Film Shows What’s On Your Plate

Miriam has been covering a series of sustainable meal recipes from the Middle East region, from countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran to...

7 Steps to Wean Yourself From Processed Food

A new book holds your hand and walks you through the stuff you already sort of know: 7 simple steps to bring you back...

Iranian Snipers Take Aim at Tehran’s Giant Mutant Rats

It sounds like a sci-fi B movie, but the problem is real: Super-sized rats infesting Tehran are so huge that a special team of...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

The Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, explained

In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

The Air Tea Kettle creates a new way to meet plants and herbalism

Air Tea is a new technology. Instead of drinking tea, you inhale herbal vapor through warm air extraction. There is no water and no combustion. The warm air releases essential oils that are often lost in hot water and digestion.

Why Health Systems Are Reaching a Turning Point

Health emerges from a continuous energy and material flow from water through food to human physiology. Technical energy systems support this cycle through water treatment, agriculture, and infrastructure.

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