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Monthly Archives: April 2008

New HooQs out on Alpha - Online VJ’s Needed!

24-Apr-08

The new version of Hooqs is out and let me tell you its fantastic. The new system still in Alpha allows users to create content channels viewable online and on mobile. Read the brief that appeared on their blog:
HooQs is a user centric service where users create and share media channels for mobile devices. Channels [...]

Matzah Ball Rap

22-Apr-08

Japanese Matzah Passover Tips

20-Apr-08

Your basic Japanese Passover tips.

Feel good video for the Passover break

20-Apr-08

It’s a holiday week here and people are out having a good time. This is one of those holidays where families go traveling across the country, the weather is mild and not too hot and most of the upcoming workdays next week are half days. We are also going to take it easy in the [...]

Shin Bet Blog

18-Apr-08

Israel security agency has launched a new blog in which four employees, identified by their initial letters, tell about their work as Shin Bet agents. Sounds intriguing? By what I’ve read and heard so far, the blog is not too exciting (to say the least).
This move is unexpected, considering the legendary reputation of this [...]

Who Let The Jews Out!

17-Apr-08

This is a greeting sent to us from some friends (Hat Tip: Bili)

This 2008 Passover

16-Apr-08

Before you read the post below I have a couple of words about the Gorilla. Yes, he is eating Matza. He really doesn’t have that much of a choice. If he is anything like the rest of us though I suggest you stay away from the Ramat Gan Zoo in the next couple of weeks [...]

Now Playing Prison Theater’s Sliding Doors

16-Apr-08

Can you imagine this scenario - actors in a theater show who are murders and rapists? A new theater show named Sliding Doors which has been running lately as part of a local theater festival is performed solely by a group of young prisoners. These young men, all of whom have been sentenced for long [...]

Israeli Film Festival in UK

15-Apr-08

Exciting news for the Israeli cinema: the first Israeli film festival kicks off in London, Britain, showing recent films that have won international recognition as long with some classic Israeli movies. The film that opens the film festival is an award winning film Noodle, starring Mili Avital, which tells the story of a flight attendant [...]

Riding the “Kosher” Bus

14-Apr-08

In the midst of cleaning for Pesach—or, as they say, making the house kosher for the holiday—I have been pondering the use of the term kosher as it is being applied to Israel’s “kosher buses”.
The segregation of women on some public transportation in and between religious neighborhoods—literally, sending them to the back of the [...]