In August 2011, Republican members of the U.S. Congress and some of their staff members and spouses visited Israel on a trip that was sponsored and paid for by the American Israel Educational...
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Yom Huledet Sameaj Madonna
Happy Birthday to superstar Madonna, a friend of Israel and popular Jewish mysticism, singer, dancer, entertainer, and author of Jewish folktale based books. Twenty years ago, around Purim 1992, a...
ShivaWatch: David Rakoff and Marvin Hamlisch
On Thursday night, as midnight approached, the essayist and author David Rakoff passed away in his Manhattan apartment. He had been battling a recurrence of cancer – a pain he thought had been...
Five Rings & A Star: Jewlicious Olympics Update 2
Andy Ram and Yoni Erlich, Israel’s tennis athletes, beat Spain in straight sets on Sunday during the Summer Olympics at Wimbledon and will now advance and perhaps face Switzerland and Roger...
Five Rings & A Star: Jewlicious Olympics Update 1
No Israeli athletes or coaches jumped into the stadium with Queen Elizabeth II, but 36 were part of the official Israeli delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London – the 30th Olympiad. In...
Israelis Develop Highless Cannabis
The group is called Tikun Olam. Their plantation is in a secret location in the Galilee, more or less near Safed. They say they have spent three years and developed a cannabis with many medical...
Shiva Watch
In order of height, we lost some notable Jewish leaders: Yitzhak Shamir, former four-term Prime Minister of Israel died at age 96. In his 1994 autobiography, he wrote that his epitaph could be:...
El Al Crews Ichiban Numero Uno?
Breaking news from China. The World Air Stewardess Association (ever hear of them?) has announced the “2012 World’s 10 Most Beautiful Air Hostess Airline Company” list, and El Al Airlines, the...