Author - froylein

As some of you may have figured out by now, I’m mostly here for decorative purposes. One of our readers has started a blog called Ashkenews with a more serious take on German Jewry. Now, not...

Then make sure your personal documents are watertight before making aliyah. 😉 Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new...

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!

Israel’s Asian restaurants went on a one-day spring roll strike Tuesday in protest over government plans to rid kitchens of foreign chefs, and said sushi and noodles would be the next items off...

Tom Lantos died earlier today. Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died...

Alrighty, in contrast to what my response on this thread may suggest, I’m not per se reluctant to meeting people I’ve got to know through the internet. BUT I do start wondering when...

  Haus der Geschichte* in Leipzig – in co-operation with the Jewish Museum in Berlin – currently features an exhibition on Jewish migration from 1933 on, called “Heimat und...

Reuters reports on Yahoo News: A drug used to treat impotence could help Israeli fighter pilots operate at high altitude, the Israeli military’s official magazine reported in its latest issue...