Although figure skaters may be left at home in Israel when The Winter Olympics’ torch is kindled in February, some Israeli filmmakers will get to travel to LA for the Academy Awards telecast in...
Strategic Communications for Israel
Today, at the Herzliya Conference, one session was held on strategic communications for Israel. In other words, Israel’s hasbara, or PR, problem. We all know that Israel has a serious PR...
What about Iran? Former CIA Director Gives His Opinion
Here at the Herzliya Conference, there hasn’t yet been a panel fully devoted to Iran (that comes tomorrow). But you can tell that its on a lot of people’s minds. Even in speeches not...
Big in J.A.P.an
(Cross-posted at my blog) (…Tx for teaching me protocol, V.) Travel literature (or film), when boiled down to its essence, is almost always about some combination of the 3E’s: Escape...
US-Israeli Relations
Yesterday, day two of the Herzliya Conference, the morning session addressed the topic of US-Israeli relations. Israeli and American speakers made it evident that, in their opinion, there still exist...
Live from the Herzliya Conference
I’m here at the 2010 Herzliya Conference, hanging out in the New Media Room. (Unfortunately, I’ve missed the first two days of the conference due to illness, so I’ll be working hard...
Nachman Ravers
VBS.TV, the video arm of Vice Magazine runs a cutting edge counterculture series called Vice Versus with cool video site Babelgum. And what exactly counts as hip, fresh and happening these days...
Apparently Israel has too many world class figure skaters
The NY Times gives us the absurd story of an Israel figure skater who qualified for the Olympics, but did not qualify to make the Israeli Olympic team. Tamar Katz, the three-time national champion...
Sundance Update #3
HOLY ROLLERS was one of the most anticipated films at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. A film, inspired by the actual events of a few Hasids who acted as drug mules for an Amsterdam-to-NY Ecstasy...
Sundance Update #2
There were so many films of Jewish interest at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, that it was nearly impossible to view them all given ticket availability and timing. One of the most prominent films...