All posts tagged "israel"

• Myth and Facts about Israel

  Myths and Facts – UN Resolution 194 and the “Right of Return”

     Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries.1950 Palestinian Arab Refugees By Eli E. Hertz Resolution 194, adopted by the UN General Assembly on...

• Harley Zipori

  Seasonal Beer – Harley Zipori

           By Harley Zipori. Sukkot is a good time to contemplate the seasons. It is, after all a harvest festival and it...

• Blogs

  Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time

   Israeli college students (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)  The Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time – a great academy filled with...

• Blogs

  Tel Aviv Rollers

    Rollerbladers ride through the streets of Tel Aviv on one of their weekly jaunts. Photo by Flash90. Every week as many...

• Steve

  Point-Counter-Point with Yossi Klein Halevi

  Point-Counter-Point is a threaded discussion on major issues among leading thinkers in the Jewish world in Israel and North America. On a...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Learn from Moshe that all of Am Yisrael is holy and deserving of our patience, understanding and love.

    by Phillip Ratner Ratnermuseum PARSHAT VEZOT HABRACHA (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Fortunate are you, O Israel: who is like you! O people...

• Steve

  Sukkot – Hu Yivarech – A Song for the IDF Soldiers

      Hu Yivarech – A Song for the IDF Soldiers, By DOV. As they defend the rights of the Jewish people within...

• Steve

  Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy

    By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim for ArabNews.com.  Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel...

• Blogs

  In Defense of the Nation-State

  By Diana Muir Appelbaum. Daniel Gordis wants you to know that if you want tolerance, diversity and freedom, you should work for...

• Blogs

  Israeli-American Soldier Dances His Way Through the IDF

         Most IDF soldiers march their way through basic training. Ron Bronstein shuffles.  The 24-year-old St. Louis native enlisted in the IDF...

• Steve

  A Tribute to the Golden City and Shuly Nathan – Jerusalem

     Dedicated to the Golden City of Jerusalem, and to the wonderful Shuly Nathan.   httpv://youtu.be/5NyqXB6b4c8 I have many versions of Yerushalayim...

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  Peace and Quiet with Israeli Technology

      Faber’s Sil-k Act hood, incorporating Silentium’s noise reduction technology (Photo credit: Faber) By DAVID SHAMAH, Times of Israel. Silentium’s noise cancellation...

• Blogs

  Worlds First Cardboard Bike – Meet the Israeli

        Izhar Gafni goes for a spin on his cardboard bike. Nobody believed it would work, but an Israeli cycling enthusiast thought...

• Blogs

  The Ghost Of Yom Kippur, Israel’s Pearl Harbor

          by Asaf Romirowsky When one looks at Israeli history, the two wars that changed and defined the country the most...

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  From buttered croissants to military rations

                     Captain Michael Levi gave up a good physician’s life in France and followed his Jewish roots to the Holy Land.Photo credit:...

• Steve

  Livin’ in a Booth – The Fountainheads

    A musical parody by The Ein Prat Fountainheads from the Ein Prat Academy, Israel http://foheads.com.   httpv://youtu.be/oXx5Wp3GcSE A parody of Bruno Mars...

• Steve

  Solar Sukkah in Kfar Sava Israel

        Photo by elibrody.   Succa, chosen by Kfar Saba Mayor Ben- Hamo, is the 1st of its kind in Israel to...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah

  Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...

• Steve's Blog:It's Personal

  How is it possible – Here I am

  By Steve Ornstein. I have thought numerous times about what to say about the New Year.  Truth be told it has been...

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  The Peace Process – Redesigned

      Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Shutterstock and Wikimedia Commons) Ignoring cultural difference and overestimating politics has left us without a resolution....