According to an article by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times, Israel is the undisputed champion of in vitro fertilization, and likely all other fertility treatments. The country pays for these...
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Flotilla victory?
Amid this conclusion, the pessimist in me cannot help but ask if the flotilla organizers and their well-funded backers lost a pawn in exchange for a rook, if they took a step back while preparing to...
Flotilla wins before even sailing
It seems like only yesterday that I wrote a horrified post about how stupidly Israel handled the last flotilla, which ended with the death of 9 Muslim activists and the injury of a number of Israeli...
Presidential Conference: Israel’s Deligitimiblahblah
The panel discussion title was “De-Legitimization: Who is at Fault? Us or Them?” except that the difficulty of pronouncing “delegitimization” made the prominent guests finally...
Tel Aviv Beginnings
Tiroche Auction House is selling a 46 photo album of the photographs of Avraham Soskin. He’s the man behind the famous photo from 1909 of the division of lots in Ahuzat Bait, the first Jewish...
Bloomsday in Kikar Bryant and Rehov Eccles Sheva
There are few joyous Jewish holidays between Shavuot and Jerusalem Day in June, and the start of the High Holidays in September, unless you also count The Tony Awards and Bloomsday. Neil Patrick...
Justin’s Israeli Gift is Close to his Heart
Hi there Hebrew speaking Bieber fans. The news is out. While in Israel, the teen-aged Bieber reportedly visited a tattoo parlour with the permission of his mother, and he got a Hebrew letter tattoo...
Obama-Netanyahu: What’s the deal?
Does President Obama's reception of PM Netanyahu form a constructive dialogue, a rift, an insult, an honest discussion, a small disagreement among friends and allies, a reaffirmation of the US-Israel...