On May 12, 2011, I wrote an essay as part of my application for the Sofaer International MBA at the Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University that I am two weeks away from completing. The...
Fuck Your Olympic Minute
Forty years ago in Munich, a group of Black September terrorists perpetrated the most heinous act in the history of the Olympics. When the dust settled 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation...
Meet Mindy Meyer, the 22-Year-Old Orthodox Jewish Woman Running for New York State Senate With Elle Woods As Her Role...
The bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed 5 Israelis and a local bus driver; what Bob Costas is going to do to memorialize the slain Israeli athletes of the ’72 Munich Olympics; meet Mindy Meyer...
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Iranian Nuke Computers Infected with ACDC
Well, it seems someone has infected the computers at Iranian nuclear facilities Natanz and Fordo. The attack was so severe that the automation network had to be shut down. Among the nasty things the...
Bridging the Gaps That Divide Us: Coping With the Tragedies in Aurora and Bulgaria
We mourn the twelve victims and fifty-eight wounded in the senseless slaughter in Aurora. We also mourn the suicide bombing which murdered five Israelis and two Bulgarians, and wounded dozens of...
Fight Over Ultra-Orthodox Brings The End of “King Bibi”; Hillary Clinton Visits Israel; Peter Beinart...
Israel’s unity government undergoes a shakeup; Hillary Clinton visits Israel; the sandwich that could give you a heart attack and more!
Crocs & a T-Shirt
No, “Crocs & a T-Shirt†is not the name of some up and coming indie band from Bensonhurst. It’s the unavoidable truth that helps describe and even define the high-tech scene in Israel...
What If I Get Blowed Up? 10 Final Statements.
I am at Gate G03 in Viena’s International Airport – on my way to Tel Aviv. Yesterday a bus carrying Israel teenagers on vacation in Bulgaria was blown up injuring 27 people and killing 7...
A Rabbi Draws Talmudic Lesson Parallels from Making Cocktails
Since getting interested in cocktails and making them over a half-year ago, as well as learning about spirits and liqueurs in the process, I had decided a few months ago to embark upon a project of...
Your Daughter is Too Jewish
This is what the parents of my friends told my father when we were living in the highly Jewish-populated city of Scottsdale, AZ. People seem to take for granted the large and prosperous Jewish...