Tel Aviv bars get physical
I used to get dizzy from studying physics in high school. But that’
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Donut guy is at it again raises $10,000 for charity by eating sufganiyot
Elie Klein is at it again. Last year, the 31-year-old Anglo public relations account executive chowed down 70 sufganiyot (Hanukah donuts) for charity, raising over $9,000 for 44 causes around the world. This year, he set a goal of eating 100 donuts and, in the process, has raised over $10,000. As of this morning ‘
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A very merry Christmas
It’s always a little shocking how Christmas can just come and go around here with little awareness that it’s been and gone. Sure, there are the Christmas decorations on the southern end of Hebron Road, heading toward Bethlehem. And there are the occasional articles or public service announcements about where to pick up one’s KKL [...]
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Hanukah, extremism and light
Hanukah is probably the most confounding holiday on the Jewish calendar. If we move beyond the toys and the gelt of 20th century Christmas catch-up, the story itself has been interpreted in so many ways that it’
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Hanukkah at the Dead Sea
The country is in full Hanukkah mode this week. Arriving late afternoon at a Dead Sea hotel for an overnight stay, we were kicking ourselves for forgetting to bring our Hanukkia with us in order to light candles. But soon after checking in, and returning from a quick walk to the Dead, we returned to [...]
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Nostalgia Sunday The sevivon spin
Hanukkah’s traditional motifs are the menorah, sufganiyot jelly doughnuts, potato latkes and the dreidel spinning top. Here in Israel, the latter two have lost in popularity in recent years. Face it, in terms of speed, color and excitement, playing dreidel pales in comparison to even the lowest freebie computer game. (And for some reason, deep-fried [...]
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Forever 21, forever Israeli
I know that fashion is usually Jessica’
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Hadarat Nashim
On my way downtown this morning on the Egged bus (the 74, which makes its way from the southern end of Jerusalem to the northern end via Derech Hevron, then onto Keren Hayesod and King George), we sidled alongside a protest of some sorts, taking place on the street, along King George. We on the [...]
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Israeli driver training
Having possessed a car for much of the last 25 years, I’
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Foto Friday 360 degree Holy Land
The Internet offers us endless ways to view the sites and sounds of the Holy Land. This week, we present some of the many panoramic photo and video images that are available online. Panoramic photography, states Wikipedia, “is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. [...]
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Spreading some Hanukka light
History was made Wednesday night – the second night of Hanukka – in Ma’
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Artsy desert kibbutz wins bid to design Waldorf interior
By Geoff Winston, Keshet On a family vacation in the Arava Desert, we popped in to see the new Art Center of Kibbutz Neot Smadar. When driving toward Eilat, we had always seen the tower sticking out of this tiny kibbutz, but never had the opportunity to check it out from up close. As we [...]
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Apple fanboys rejoice: tech giant opening development center in Israel
My friend Eliezer is such an Apple fanboy that, when he heard that Apple is planning to open a development center in Israel in Haifa, he seriously considered moving or commuting there. While I expect Eliezer will maintain his Jerusalem residence, the news was nevertheless exciting (especially for those ‘
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Shattered calm close to an Israeli home
To get into our city of Ma’
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Nostalgia Sunday Chanukah menorahs of Italy
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Generosity and the spouse
I’m reading the paper the other morning — yes, still read ‘a paper’, and saw an interesting piece about happy marriages and research from the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project. They studied the role of generosity in marriage and found that generosity — “the virtue of giving good things to one’s spouse freely and [...]
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American Zuckerberg to sue Israeli Zuckerberg?
An Israeli high tech entrepreneur has devised a novel idea was to avoid being sued by Facebook. He’
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Foto Friday Israel in 3D
We’ve written before about 19th century stereoscopic images of the Holy Land. The 20th century version was the ViewMaster (more on that another day) and the anaglyph, popularly known as 3D vision. Anaglyph images provide a stereoscopic effect when viewed through glasses with two different colored lenses. The technology is enjoying a 21st century comeback [...]