IDF gets a special gift for Passover: Maya Bouskilla, a famous Israeli pop singer, has enlisted to the IDF at the age of thirty. The Israeli army service is mandatory for every young person at the age of 18, which means that Maya has joined about a decade past enlistment usual age, making her one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Tel Aviv Cinematheque is showing a new 30-minute comedy called Bombshell about a young Arab female suicide bomber who fails in her terrorist attack.
This is a story of a young female terrorist who plans to blow herself up on an Israeli bus. Her plan takes an unsuspected turn when she is running late [...]
Meet Evan Fallenberg, an American ex-pat living in Israel, who is now becoming discovered on the world Jewish literary scene. Fallenberg, formerly of Cleveland Ohio, has been living in Israel for some years now, and resides in a small suburban community outside the coastal city of Netanya.
A translator by profession, Evan began to make a [...]
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Gambling has always been a popular pastime among Israelis. But one game, available “on-line” has turned out to be a “winner” for some and a nightmare for others. Unfortunately, I wound up being one of the “others”. It seemed very simple at first: just register and give all your personal information, including card info, [...]
More than 42 years after their initial Israel concert was canceled by government authorities, the two remaining members of the original Beatles have been invited to perform here during Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations. Present government officials extended the invitations to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with an official apology for canceling the original concert [...]
The Israeli film Beaufort, directed by Joseph Cedar and based on the best selling novel by Ron Leshem, has just been nominated by the U.S. Academy Awards for an Oscar as the best foreign film for 2007.
The film is based on the trials and tribulations of an IDF combat unit in the [...]
What is a nice Jewish Israeli girl doing with a bunch of L.A. rappers and hip hop artists? Why she’s making a lot of money with them – that’s what! Miri Ben Ari began playing the violin when she was a young girl, and more recently switched from classical music to more interesting melodies like [...]
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