Taking DovBear's lead, I have decided to post this question... I heard the same vort DB heard, and responded with the same response (at least one of his responses). Someone at a Purim seuda told me a vort that "Why does the Megillah first say Bigsan V'Seresh when Mordechai first hears their plot to ...

In one of the weekend newspapers, Ha'Shavua B'Yerushalayim, there was an interesting exclusive article. The article described how the mayor of Bnei Brak, Yaakov Asher, recently went to Japan to testify as a character witness on behalf of the boys in jail for unwittingly smuggling drugs into the coun...

Purim is fast approaching and that also means the annual shalach manos orgy of candy nobody needs is also almost upon us. Everybody pretty much agrees that shalach manos has gotten out of control. People spend way too much money, in attempts to impress others. And most of the food is wasted - how ma...

Danny Danon is a new MK in the Likud. He is one of the new MKs on the Likud list, and I have been nothing but impressed by what I have seen about him. Danon has turned to the public, using the Internet and his website, as a way of connecting the people with the Knesset. He knows that people have man...

Lipa, and the controversy surrounding him and his concerts, has now been written up in the Wall Street Journal. That is how big he has gotten. Mr. Schmeltzer, who is 30, grew up in New Square, a village in Rockland County, N.Y., founded in the 1950s by the strict Skverer Hasidic movement. He was bor...

Ynet ran an article the other day about the overuse of the term "extremist" and how it is being thrown about by politicians accusing each other of extremism, yet nobody has any idea what is considered "normal", so nobody knows what is considered "extreme". It is therefore very appropriate that today...

I know I am late to the Valmadonna game, and I don't know if I have all the details correctly, but I just heard this story and found ti amazing. I heard it from someone who is sort of related to Jack Lunzer, the owner of the Valmaddona Collection, and he had heard it firsthand from Lunzer himself. T...

This morning on the radio they were talking about an interesting topic that comes up every few years. Tradition tells us that when the Jews entered the Land of Israel, the Well of Miriam which accompanied us through our wandering in the desert and provided our water, went into the Kinerret. I don't ...

We have some big stuff planned here at Life in Israel for next week and are working hard to make it happen, so stay tuned.......

Guest Post by Rafi G. (originally posted on LII) In the story that just won't die, until now I have pretty much just brought reports of other people saying it is true or not. Rachel Imeinu appeared and saved our troops, or she did not (I generally brought those saying it is true, because that side i...