RISHON LEZION, Israel–The College of Management- Academic Studies (COMAS) recently launched the Chinese Media Center at its School of Media Studies. The Chinese Media Center at the College of...
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Jewish SuperBowl Ads or The Case of the GoDaddy Mezuzah
If you are like me, you watch the televised NFL Superbowl game for the ads. In 2014, a 30 second spot sold for about $4 million. To many, the ads are more exciting than the game and halftime...
Canadian PM Harper visits the Knesset, hilarity ensues
Sometimes events are so amusing they overtake fiction, and so it went with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his visit to the Knesset. As we noted on this very site a couple of years ago...
Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014
I have always had mixed feelings about Ariel Sharon. Never one to fall in with the Israeli tradition of the cult of personality, – think Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin or David Ben-Gurion – I never...
Today is WORLD FOOD Day! Did you know?
During World Food Month Look Toward Israel by Dr. Nitza Kardish As we commemorate World Food Month in October, there is much to be both sober and hopeful about. About 870 million people are...
IDF Tweet Moves Markets
On Thursday, as the world was reading about Alice Munro, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, the IDF SpokesModel (perhaps mad that Philip Roth was not the prize winner) tweeted that...
World War Z: A Mustn’t C
You’re probably wondering what World War Z has to do with Jewish Issues. Well it has a long sequence set in Israel. A lot has been written on line recently about the political statements that...
A Recipe for Leadership: Visions from Jerusalem’s Presidential Conference 2013
The theme of this year’s Presidential Conference in Jerusalem was the human factor and the role of quality leadership in shaping our tomorrow. Leaders from across the globe came to speak about their...