Three Orthodox rabbis Hershel Billet, Kalman Topp, Aaron Glatt)  sent out this letter: Dear Friends As you well know, we are in the midst of a financial crisis unprecedented during our lifetimes. As a community we must take stock of the circumstances and react to the new realities in a responsi...

Conventional wisdom unequivocally asserted that the only Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee to hold a candle to Waltz with Bashir was France’s The Class - but that even that movie was hardly as technically groundbreaking or thematically poignant as Israel’s nominee. Regardless, The...

"In the morning remember it is a new day, a new beginning. Have a decision deep in your heart that, ‘Today I am not going to waste this opportunity. Enough is enough! Today I am going to be aware, today I am going to be alert, today I am going to devote as much energy as possible to the single cau...

One thing you can say about Jews, is that we can find the dark humor in anything. Hot on the heels of the unilateral cease-fire announced by Israel, one email making the rounds on Sunday parodied the ‘Top Ten’ list of American talk show host David Letterman, but with a local twist. Even though i...

Earlier this week, the relatively new free daily nationalist tabloid Yisrael Hayom (Hebrew-only informational website viewable here) reported that mainstream Israeli news websites have been experiencing around a 30% spike in traffic since the start of the current Gaza conflict - hardly a surprise, a...

Earlier this week, the relatively new free daily nationalist tabloid Yisrael Hayom (Hebrew-only informational website viewable here) reported that mainstream Israeli news websites have been experiencing around a 30% spike in traffic since the start of the current Gaza conflict - hardly a surprise, a...

Anhedonia is “an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events� and in addition to being the working title for Wood Allen’s “Annie Hall� - it also describes a feeling Israelis wrestle with on a daily basis. Nissan Shor, is the author of the new book “Dancing With...

It’s not hard to feel somewhat detached from the reality of what is going on in the south. For several years now the citizens of Sderot have been forced to run to their bomb shelters numerous times a day in the wake of Hamas missile volleys while us who live further north just go [...]...

After so many times of kicking ass on the battlefield, but losing the media war, various government bodies are paying much closer attention this time to explaining Israel’s positions and justification for their current operation in Gaza. Fortunately, most people can think back longer than two ...

Tearful testimony this week resulted in a halt to action that would institutionalize prostitution in Israel. According to Hebrew press, when members of the Sub-Committee for the War Against Female Trafficking heard testimonies from two former prostitutes, they decided to halt steps aimed at formaliz...