Blind, deaf actors take centre stage in Israel
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The theatre lights dim and the  audience settles into their seats -- usually a cue for the  actors to deliver their opening lines. Instead, the Nalaga'at  troupe start pummeling and stroking each other's hands.
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The title characters in âThree Travelers,â a comedy by Richard Abrons, arenât lost, but the actors playing them seem to be.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.
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BEIJING, Nov. 27 -- The retrial of a blind legal activist kicked off in eastern Shandong province Monday, but not without some of the same courtroom tumult that characterized his first trial, which was widely denounced by human rights advocates, lawyers said.
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Stars arrive for the European Film Awards, being held in eastern Europe for the first time.
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A new documentary examines the alternating periods of acceptance, achievement and virulent discrimination faced by Jews.
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The terrified Israeli soldiers in director Joseph Cedar's new film "Beaufort" cannot see their enemy.
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A new film about a meeting between two mothers over the deaths of their daughters in Jerusalem, a New York play set in the West Bank and a ceramic art exhibit are each being hailed for getting Israelis and Palestinians to talk to each other.
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Reaching above her dark glasses, Riki Fritsh held a compact camera to her forehead and snapped away at a group of passengers boarding a bus. Most of the travelers were caught off guard by the camera's flash. But they were even more surprised to learn that Fritsh is blind.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn't cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island.
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HAIFA, Israel  - Some pilgrims stand in silence. Others prostrate themselves and offer fragrant petals.
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Initially witnesses said there were four people in the car but one, who was among the wounded, turned out to be a passerby. uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Although four stories are folded together in Eric KhooÂs elliptical film, it's the true story of a deaf and blind Singaporean woman that gives the movie its backbone.
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Justice is blind and so are some judges &#151; at least in sports.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- Khaled Al-Shawish, one of the founders of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and one of Israel&#39;s most-wanted men, has been confined to a wheelchair since he was hit by nine bullets during a gunbattle with Israeli troops on the outskirts of
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Iraqi doctor turned film-maker Omer Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Eighteen months after the outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.