Israel: the land of milk, honey, and (possibly) the world’s oldest woman. An Israeli Arab woman, no less. Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card, said she was born 120 years ago — a claim, if confirmed, that would make [...]
Look who’s here: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, the actress who played Meadow, the daughter of Mafioso Tony Soprano on the award-winning HBO series “The Sopranos,” is currently in Israel on a Birthright tour. According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot, the 25 year-old actress is in country to explore her Jewish roots. She is the daughter of a [...]
Reuters reports: The United States has agreed in principle to provide Israel with better “smart bombs” than those it plans to sell Saudi Arabia under a regional defense package, senior Israeli security sources said on Sunday.Keen to bolster Middle East allies against an ascendant Iran, the Bush administration last year proposed supplying Gulf Arab states [...]
A Palestinian man interacts with a camel as he waits for tourists on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, Jan. 14, 2008. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators took on the most contentious issues in their bitter conflict Monday, under a U.S.-backed effort to hammer out a final peace deal by the end of the [...]
George: Is that right? I just threw away a life time of guilt-free sex and floor seats for every sporting event in Madison Square Garden. So please, a little respect, for I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots. Woman cheering on marathon runners: You’re all winners! George: But suddenly, a new contender has emerged. – [...]
But Rice on Monday clarified that the US believes that portions of east Jerusalem are considered to be “settlements” and that Israel must stop building there as part of its commitment to implement the first phase of the road map. The land that Har Homa is on was legally purchased by Jews from Sheikh Shehade [...]
Great, just what we need on top of everything else. Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon ordered Thursday the culling of all fowl in a three kilometer radius of the northern town of Binyamina. Simhon’s order comes following the earlier detection of a deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in a Binyamina kindergarten petting zoo. According to [...]
Only in Israel would the prize for the winning team in a weekly Survivor challenge be a Shabbat Dinner with Challah, honey, wine and Shabbat Candles for the whole team. And only in Israel would the winning team share that prize with the losers because Jews don’t stop other Jews from eating a Shabbat dinner. [...]
According to one of Wikipedia’s senior editors, David Shankbone, who is the most popular and most recognizable leader in the world among Internet surfers under age 30? Here’s a clue: Source. I guess he can add that accomplishment to his Nobel Peace Prize and being called “the sexiest man alive” (by actress Kathleen Turner). Meanwhile, [...]
From JTA: An Israeli army rabbi is under investigation for putting a mezuzah up in an off-limits area of Hebron.The rabbi of the military’s Judea Brigade was photographed this week putting up a mezuzah in the casbah, or old city of Hebron, accompanied by Chabad supporters. The Hebron casbah, from where many Palestinian residents have [...]
