– – (This is the first in a series of posts.) After attending several business conferences recently and hearing countless people sing the praises of Israel as “Startup Nation,” that is...
OurCrowd Summit Part II: Or How The Chinese Love The Jews
– – When attending the OurCrowd Global Summit this week one thing became perfectly clear: Jerusalem is a go to city for investors from around the world. And why not? It is, after all, the...
OurCrowd Investor Summit 2016: Can Crowdfunding Work in the World of High Tech Startups?
– – OurCrowd, Israel’s unique crowdfunding investment firm, held its second annual Summit in Jerusalem on Monday. In a show of how much the new fund has grown in size and prominence in...
Evening Briefing Jan 27: The Struma, the Pollard Snitches & AEPi
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It recalls the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. The New York Times marked the day by highlighting an obituary it had prepared years...
Evening Briefing Jan 26: Abe, Hillary, Iowa Jew-Baiting, and Clooney
Abe Vigoda, a beloved actor, passed away at the age of 94 today, at the home of his daughter in New Jersey. With deep set eyes, and a weary look, he gained fame in his fifties as Tessio, a mafia...
JeruZalem: Just Another Shlocky Zombie Flick
JeruZalem: Written and Directed by Doron and Yoav Paz; Starring Yael Grobglas, Yon Tumarkin and Danielle Jadelyn. Epic Pictures, 94 minutes. JeruZalem is a movie which pretends to be some sort of...
Gad Elbaz and Nissim – Hashem Melech 2.0
On Wednesday December 23, 2016 Rabbi Reuven Biermacher, was seriously injured in a stabbing by two Palestinian assailants near the Jaffa Gate and later died of his wounds. The death of Biermacher...
Jerusalem Onesie/Pajama Pub Crawl
[slideshow_deploy id=’32826′] Last Thursday night, Improv Israel organized a Onesie/Pajama Pub Crawl. I caught up with them at the Machane Yehuda market where they had just come...
What’s Hot at Sundance 2016
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and already a film has been purchased… by Amazon. One can say that this is representative of the market for indie films… that Amazon and Netflix and...
The Voracious Sexual Desire of a Jewish Man
Egyptian Sex Therapist Heba Kotb: The Jews Have Had the Highest Rate of Sexual Perversions throughout History. To view this video-clip on the MEMRI TV website, go to: . In a recent Egyptian TV show...