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By Levi Shapiro | Posted October 22, 2009 | Comments: 4
In the new book Start Up Nation- The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle , Dan Senor and Saul Singer cite the importance of entrepreneurs, and their investors, in building a robust Israeli high-tech industry. The sector represents 16% of GDP and 25% of e...
Out of Humous: Iguazu
By Oren Weinberg | Posted November 03, 2009
The movie shown on the bus to one of the largest waterfalls in the world, the Iguazu, was Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," which added to the general sense of excitement and anticipation.
The entra...
By Leah Hakimian | Posted June 28, 2009
Was it by chance that two Bombay-born young people decided to get married on Valentine's Day? "Nothing happens by chance," says Jonathan Kolet.
When they met, Jonathan was 25 and living in Israel. "I returned to the city of my birth, Bom...
Recently a former company commander in my battalion came to tell us about the Second Lebanon War. My company commander was a platoon commander of his at the time. He's currently studying in university, and then he's going to return to a prestigious ass...
As Operation Cast Lead enters its third week and the death toll in Gaza mounts, calls from around the world denouncing Israel and its actions have been growing stronger. As the battle on the ground increased, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and popular blogs and...
Everything I know about hospitality I learned from my Dad. We always had big holiday dinners. Actually, we still have big holiday dinners... and they're great! Mom puts out a spread that seems to include every conceivable kosher animal available as well as ...
By Ruth Lande | Posted November 03, 2009
While I was searching for the group of German and Israeli "Young Leaders" at the airport in Munich, I don't quite know what I was expecting. We were told by the organizers that we were "chosen" for an Israeli-German dialogue, which entai...
By Anav Silverman | Posted October 25, 2009 | Comments: 1
Sderot, Israel: If you heard Color Red siren alerts in Sderot on Wednesday night, October 14, it wasn't because rockets were being fired from Gaza, something Sderot's 19,000 residents have had to endure for the past eight years.
Instead...
By Cynthia Kane | Posted October 20, 2009 | Comments: 6
A while back I wrote a post about feeling disconnected with Judaism. The responses from you all really made me sit back and think about how to reconnect to the part of me that is yearning for this sense of community or, as some of you mentioned, a connectio...
By Schelly Talalay Dardashti | Posted April 03, 2008 | Comments: 1
The Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree is only a few months away, set for June 27-29, in Burbank, California. Last year's event was a major success, and this year is expected to be bigger and better.
The committee's program (now online, ...
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