Israel
The People You Meet on the Street
One of the cool things about living in New York is, occasionally, you get to run into some pretty cool ...
Then He Went On a Camel Ride and Bought a Red String Bracelet From an Old Lady at the Kotel
The tabloids are printing some awesome pictures of Liev Schreiber and wife Naomi Watts planting some trees in Israel with ...
And You Thought You Pissed Off Your Zayde!
Jokes about Al-Qaeda usually aren’t funny. So when the media covers a personal piece about the terrorist organization, you know ...
Dude, Where’s Your Shtreimel?
In Jerusalem, reports the API, there’s a proposed ban on the importation of fur. While I’m a die-hard vegetarian, and ...
Israeli Reactions to Netanyahu’s Speech
The full text of Netanyahu’s foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan can be found here. (Ha’aretz)Reactions:“Netanyahu had the worst of ...
Your Search For “Bacon” Has Produced “0” Results
Have you tried out Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing? I’ve used it a couple of times. It seems pretty good, ...
Israeli Response to Obama’s Cairo Speech
Thumbs up:Yossi Sarid called it “the speech of our lives, the lives of all the damned in all the areas ...
Jews and Languages
In a first, the Knesset officially marked Yiddish Language and Culture Day on June 2, including the release of a ...
Holocaust Museum Shooting: The Roundup & Reaction
It’s the day after a fatal shooting of a security guard in the Washington Holocaust Museum, and the Jewish world ...
My Camp is Definitely Jewish
As you’ve probably figured out by now (that is, if you read me), I’m a big fan of the website ...
The “Jewish State” and Hebrew Problems
A.B. Yehoshua asks why the label of a “Jewish state” so important, especially since “the combination ‘Jewish state’…sounds hostile and ...
