Mark Berch
Since 2002, Mark Berch has been providing Jewishly oriented web links to members of his shul (Tifereth Israel, a small Conservative synagogue in Washington DC where his family has been members for almost 40 years). In real life, he is a Patent Examiner.
Articles by Mark Berch
The Jewish Body
-Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has been named “Body of 2008” by British men’s magazine Arena. (Haaretz) -A leisurely look at ...
Foodie News
-On a per capita basis, Tel Aviv is the world’s 3rd largest sushi market. But a crisis looms. (Ynet)-A look ...
In the North
-Martin van Creveld makes the argument that “Israel’s War With Hezbollah Was Not a Failure.� (Forward) -There is a report ...
Israeli Successes
-An Israel-based company has invented a prosthetic tooth, the size of two molars, that delivers drugs automatically to the user. ...
Coming to Israel
-A look at a program that sends Jewish, Christian and Muslim teens to Israel. (Jewish Exponent)-Hana and Sinai Julian made ...
Water in Israel
-Global warming notwithstanding, Israeli rainfall statistics have remained essentially unchanged in the 60 years they have been tracked. (Haaretz) -Preserving ...
Religion & Mathematics
-A mathematician makes the argument that the amazing coincidences, “miracles,� that people take as evidence for the existence of God ...
Watchdogs, Superheroes, & Second Life
-Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-born Arab journalist, and author has created a prime-time situation comedy which “deals with Israeli society’s prejudices ...
The Sephardi World
-David Shasha sets forth that “Sephardic culture, which espouses an outlook of tolerance and coexistence…could speak in a sophisticated and ...
Obama and Israel
-Aaron Klein argues that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, “penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books ...