The present is always built on the ruins of the past, the only real question is – how do we integrate this reality into our identity? This episode looks at the begins of a shift in Israeli...
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Tel Aviv -> Berlin (One way)
If you were to take a sunny afternoon walk around the hip district of Kreuzberg in Berlin these days you are very likely to hear the strangely recognizable sounds of the holy language. In the last...
New Gal in Town
For such a small place, there is quite a large Jewish and Israeli community. Before I arrived, I started contacting people through various Facebook pages, and was pleasantly surprised to get such...
Ahad Ha’am 2.0: Hebrew Literacy for Israelis in America
Ahad Ha’am, a great Zionist thinker and icon, knew that one of the keys to creating a thriving Jewish culture in Palestine, and among assimilating Jews in Europe, was reviving the ancient...
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...
What’s Clinton’s angle here?
From TheLand: Former United States president Bill Clinton came under fire from Russian-born Israeli politicians on Wednesday, a day after he told the media that the Russian immigrant population in...
An ugly side of some Israelis
Lest we think that all Israelis are wonderful, along come videos such as this to inform us that there are idiots and haters among them as well. They deserve no support for their stupidity or for...
B’Atzlecha to Israel’s Olympic Teamsky.
As I tweeted, The Olympic Committee of Israel announced yesterday that the sibling ice dancing pair of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky would represent the country at next month’s Winter Olympics...