This is for all those teachers who are back at school. I heard on Internet radio today…
A young teacher had been invited to the house of one of his students for dinner. The father was a high-powered CEO and quite a wealthy man. Perhaps too much wine was served with dinner or perhaps it was [...]
As I am writing this, the first episode of the Israeli version of the hit tv series “Survivor” is being aired on Israeli television (channel 10).
Having bought the rights to the show, it is so far a fair imitation of the original series, this one shot on the Caribbean Islands.
So far, survivors were split into [...]
It’s cold and rainy today and it feels great. Finally we can feel what Winter should be like. An ideal time for a singing Menorah!
Just click the candles and make them sing. Click the Shamash (Red center candle) and he will turn them all on or off.
Have a warm weekend !
Have you ever been outdoors on a humid day and thought that the humidity was so thick you could almost drink it? Well, a Houston Texas based company decided to put this thought into action by designing and manufacturing a device that literally converts the very air we breathe into safe, clean drinking water. Called [...]
I hear quite a bit about the Cyber Monday craze lately. Cyber Monday is that first Monday after the retail industry’s Black Friday, so named because of the chaos and high levels of traffic. Black Friday has been the top sales day in the retail industry in 2003 and 2005 and second in other years.
Wikipedia’s [...]
Since the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a secular one, Israel really doesn’t have anything to compare with it, as all holidays in Israel, save that of Independence Day, are religious ones. There are no shortage of “turkeys” in the Jewish State, however. By that simile, I’m not referring to the stately bird that graced [...]
This is the song that represented us in the Eurovision in Helsinki this past May. I think its more then ever an appropriate song….
Who would have thought the Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar Sadat would be addressing a packed session of the Israeli Knesset on November 20, 1977. Those of us who saw this event, either in person or on TV, still marvel that this event took place, especially due to the circumstances at the time (only four years [...]
Israel is a little country of seven million inhabitants, and with a land area the size of the American state of New Jersey. Yet, despite its diminutive size, it has some of the richest people in the world as its citizens. And now, these super rich billionaires are trying to purchase many of the most [...]
In the midst of political shame, teacher strikes, unnecessary car accidents, etc.. there is nothing like a good old fashioned pat on the back to get our egos back on track.
And Baruch Hashem, tfu tfu tfu, hamsa hamsa hamsa, we still have a lot to be proud of.
As one YouTube user puts it:
As a [...]
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