[Christian Science Monitor] Joshua Mitnick - The stage was dominated by a Star of David, an olive tree, and musicians who mix blues licks, reggae rhythms, and messianic refrains from Jewish liturgy. The annual "End of Days" festival has become something of a mini-Woodstock in the settlements, with meditation groups, religious study sessions, and a crowd dressed in colorful flowing clothes. Staged on a wooded slope amid the ruins of Mesuot Yitzhak, a Jewish settlement captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the festival is evidence of how the young hilltop generation has embraced many of the counterculture symbols of 1960s America. "When the whole world turns on the television, what do they see? Fighting and politics," says Yehuda Leuchter, the festival founder. "We're trying to bring rock 'n' roll and good vibes for the Land of Israel and for the whole world."
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