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Chag same’ach to you all and shabbat shalom. A bundle of LULAV, HADAS and ARAVA, with an ETROG to its right, in the mosaic floor of the synagogue of Hamat Tveria (Tiberias), dated from 6th...

Hebrew University produces more patents than MIT in biotechnology. It ranked 12th out of 424 international institutions of higher learning in the number of patents registered last year (2005). It is...

Here’s the sequence of events, boys and girls. Two prominent non-Jewish academics, one from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government whose chair is funded by a Jewish benefactor and another...

After a rough and tumble competition, Nicaragua has just selected its national drink! I think that is simply a great idea – why should Cuba have all the fun with its Mojito? Nicaraguan folk...

Danny Yatom is a former head of the Mossad. He’s a Labor MK who together with a Kadima MK, Dr. Moshe Amirav, a pragmatic right wing diplomat who has sought dialogue and compromise with the...

Amazingly, this is the sixth (!!!!!) father-son pair to win a Nobel. Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel for Medicine in 1959 for his work on mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid...

Lisa Goldman from Ontheface has a great post about the streets of Tel Aviv and how on Yom Kippur, they are populated by children on bicycles. Make sure to check out the photos by Idan to which she...

According to the Jerusalem Post, Mr. Assad, President of Syria thanks to his daddy’s talents, feels emboldened by Hizbullah’s performance and his new partnerships with Iran and Russia. He...