Topic: History and Culture
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ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Foto Friday – Yoram Reshef’s pride of researchers
Yoram Reshef heads a commercial photography studio that produces images for some of Israel’s leading brands. “I...
Yoram Reshef heads a commercial photography studio that produces images for some of Israel’s leading brands. “I...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Israeli travel
elcome back to me from the land of South Africa. We just spent a very happy ten days in Cape Town and along the Garden Route,...
elcome back to me from the land of South Africa. We just spent a very happy ten days in Cape Town and along the Garden Route,...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – The day Cellcom launched
We stayed up till past midnight last week to witness the first launching of iPhone in Israel . And, like the proverbial lead...
We stayed up till past midnight last week to witness the first launching of iPhone in Israel . And, like the proverbial lead...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Making a list and checking it twice
Just because we’re here in Israel doesn’t mean that there’s no shopping mania around this time of...
Just because we’re here in Israel doesn’t mean that there’s no shopping mania around this time of...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Lentil soup
So Daniel, my husband, has been hankering to get the recipe for a particular lentil soup at one of our favorite shipudiya...
So Daniel, my husband, has been hankering to get the recipe for a particular lentil soup at one of our favorite shipudiya...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – The Tallest Building in the Middle East
It happened as we were discussing the lovely Nahum Gutman print (pictured right). My co-worker and I were trying to figure out...
It happened as we were discussing the lovely Nahum Gutman print (pictured right). My co-worker and I were trying to figure out...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
A bisel Yiddish
My sister and brother-in-law are taking a Yiddish class, which, given the fact that they live in the very Yemenite Rosh Haayin,...
My sister and brother-in-law are taking a Yiddish class, which, given the fact that they live in the very Yemenite Rosh Haayin,...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Foto Friday – The Italian Synagogue
The Conegliano Synagogue in Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the local Italian Jewish community. The building, formerly a...
The Conegliano Synagogue in Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the local Italian Jewish community. The building, formerly a...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Freedom of religion for all in Jerusalem – except women?
Relations in Jerusalem between the haredi community and virtually everyone else seem to be at its nadir. In addition to almost...
Relations in Jerusalem between the haredi community and virtually everyone else seem to be at its nadir. In addition to almost...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – JNF-KKL stamp club
About a week and a half ago, an event took place at the Jewish National Fund House in Tel Aviv that might be termed historic:...
About a week and a half ago, an event took place at the Jewish National Fund House in Tel Aviv that might be termed historic:...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
A Thanksgiving surprise
You wouldn’t know it by any outside trappings, but for many Israelis of American descent – and for US travellers...
You wouldn’t know it by any outside trappings, but for many Israelis of American descent – and for US travellers...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – Turkey Feeder
You would think that Thanksgiving would be a more popular holiday here, given the size of the poultry-breeding industry and the...
You would think that Thanksgiving would be a more popular holiday here, given the size of the poultry-breeding industry and the...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Beaujolais Nouveau
If it’s the third Thursday in November, that means it’s a) the Thursday before Thanksgiving and more importantly,...
If it’s the third Thursday in November, that means it’s a) the Thursday before Thanksgiving and more importantly,...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Picture of the week: The Ethiopian journey comes to an end
It’s been a long journey for Israel’s Ethiopian Jews, airlifted out of Ethiopia to Israel in 1984 and 1991, but this...
It’s been a long journey for Israel’s Ethiopian Jews, airlifted out of Ethiopia to Israel in 1984 and 1991, but this...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Austrians forget how Hatikva goes
People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.At an international fencing...
People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.At an international fencing...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Austrians forget how Hatikva goes
People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.At an international fencing...
People wonder why Israel is always on the defensive, when things like this explain it perfectly.At an international fencing...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – Old ads are more fun
If we are to learn anything from Mad Men, it’s that advertisements are most fun and best viewed in retrospect. We look...
If we are to learn anything from Mad Men, it’s that advertisements are most fun and best viewed in retrospect. We look...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – Old ads are more fun
If we are to learn anything from Mad Men, it’s that advertisements are most fun and best viewed in retrospect. We look...
If we are to learn anything from Mad Men, it’s that advertisements are most fun and best viewed in retrospect. We look...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Religious ruptures
ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city’s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel...
ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city’s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Religious ruptures
ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city’s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel...
ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city’s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel...
threeplustwo posted a blog entry
Week 12: Life with little ones
November 1-8 Katydid and Gareth were sick for at least part of week 12. When Katydid first came down with whatever it was, it...
November 1-8 Katydid and Gareth were sick for at least part of week 12. When Katydid first came down with whatever it was, it...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Picture of the week: The long goodbye to Rabin
There can’t be many people on the left or the right in Israel who don’t still wonder what would have happened if...
There can’t be many people on the left or the right in Israel who don’t still wonder what would have happened if...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
High school musical – the hike
A uniquely Israeli creation, the tiyul shnati (Annual trip) has been part of our family’s lives since our oldest child...
A uniquely Israeli creation, the tiyul shnati (Annual trip) has been part of our family’s lives since our oldest child...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – Take a Hike, Alte Zachen!
It’s the end of an era. Ynet News reported today that following six-year struggle, Tel Aviv has become the first city in...
It’s the end of an era. Ynet News reported today that following six-year struggle, Tel Aviv has become the first city in...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Nostalgia Sunday – Shaare Zedek Hospital’s Schwester Selma
I didn’t know Schwester Selma but there is one time when perhaps our paths might have crossed. That would be in 1973,...
I didn’t know Schwester Selma but there is one time when perhaps our paths might have crossed. That would be in 1973,...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Have any lessons been learned from Rabin’s assassination?
Thursday marks the 14th anniversary of the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin – certainly one of the cataclysmic...
Thursday marks the 14th anniversary of the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin – certainly one of the cataclysmic...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Ghosts in Israel? Not likely
Israel may be an ancient land, with an ancient, not to mention, bloody history, but despite this, it doesn’t seem to be a...
Israel may be an ancient land, with an ancient, not to mention, bloody history, but despite this, it doesn’t seem to be a...
ISRAELITY posted a blog entry
Ghosts in Israel? Not likely
Israel may be an ancient land, with an ancient, not to mention, bloody history, but despite this, it doesn’t seem to be a...
Israel may be an ancient land, with an ancient, not to mention, bloody history, but despite this, it doesn’t seem to be a...
Joemar posted a blog entry
The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - REAL FOOTAGE!
The Bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiAugust 6 and 9, 1945 by Ben Snowden At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945, an American...
The Bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiAugust 6 and 9, 1945 by Ben Snowden At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945, an American...
