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In new playground Dubai, Israelis find parties, Jewish rites
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Unthinkable a few months ago, Israelis find new playground in Dubai
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Israelis are openly enjoying the glitz of Dubai after a US-brokered peace deal allowed them to travel there for the first time in decades.
In scenes that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, an Israeli bride and groom were pictured hoisted on the shoulders of skullcap-wearing groomsmen and carried toward the dance floor, where dozens joined the throng swaying and singing in Hebrew.
Noemie Azerad and Simon David Benhamou didn t just throw a somewhat normal wedding bash in the middle of a pandemic that has shut down their country and ravaged the world.
They were reveling in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, which like most of the Arab world had been off-limits to Israeli passport holders for decades.
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Rabbi Levi Duchman lights a menorah during Hanukkah at a private residence in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December. Christopher Pike for NPR
In the six years that Brooklyn native Rabbi Levi Duchman has lived in the United Arab Emirates, he s never been this overwhelmed.
On Hanukkah, the 27-year-old rabbi hurried from one party to another, dashing into a Dubai Hilton hotel ballroom to briefly light candles with a group of Orthodox Jewish tourists from Israel, many of them visiting an Arab country for the first time.
One of them approached the rabbi with a query: Did the local Starbucks use camel milk, which is not kosher, in its coffee machines?