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The Voice Israeli style

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:56:34 +0000

The Voice has conquered Israel. The singing competition/reality show which captivated the US last year debuted here last week and broke TV ratings records. The first episode – aired by Reshet on Channel 2 on Saturday night – scored 43.4 percent rating of 1.6 million viewers. Remember, we only have eight million people in the [...]

Foto Friday Tal Menkes Dreadful Delights

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:12:16 +0000

Tal Menkes is a copywriter at advertising agency Mccann Erickson, Tel-Aviv, Israel. In addition to his day job of penning award-winning ads, Menkes’ fevered brain works overtime several times a week to create Mutzar Ayom, a photoblog of seemingly useful yet cheerfully useless objects. The name takes the hackneyed shopping channel phrase mutzar ha-yom, “product [...]

You got chocolate in my wine! No, you got wine in my chocolate!

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:12:34 +0000

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Tel Aviv voted worlds best gay city

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:17:07 +0000

With all the recent coverage around the world of the gender segregation issues in Israel with haredim, it would be safe to assume that some people are getting the impression that our society is being overrun by Taliban-type extremist elements. To bring things back to perspective, just go to ISRAEL21c or look at the website [...]

Footwear PR

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:25:27 +0000

I’ve written before about Kobi Levi‘s ironic, iconic and clever shoe designs, possibly about platforms, but was pleased to see him garnering some publicity for himself through more unusual efforts. Check out his shoe calendar, via the UK Calendar Club, with a 2012 wall calendar that features 12 Kobi Levi shoe designs. He also recently [...]

Pacha Sleeping Mama

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:41:16 +0000

The Pachamama Alliance is a worldwide organization that aims to raise awareness of the environmental dangers facing planet Earth ‘

Women do it for themselves in Beit Shemesh

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:07:15 +0000

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Explaining flavor

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:01:29 +0000

There are times, many times when I’m reading an Ha’aretz article about something — whatever — and I’m just stumped about what they’re trying to tell me, the reader. Consider the piece in last weekend’s Haaretz Magazine, “Creative, But is it Edible?”, about how — I think — local chefs go to incredible lengths to [...]

Nostalgia Sunday Yaffa Yarkoni

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:35:06 +0000

It would be remiss of me if I did not mention the death of singer Yaffa Yarkoni at the age of 86 last week. The papers, both local and international, reported on her passing — she was indeed the symbol of the War of Independence generation and a singer of some of Israel’s most beloved [...]

No cultural boycott of Israel for Janis Ian

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:47:32 +0000

Thirty years after last performing in Israel, 1970s-era singer/songwriter Janis Ian is coming back this month. And it appears that Israelis haven’