Gil Gibli is an illustrator for the Israeli business newspaper Globes. He is also religious, and in this interview he talks about his job and how his religiosity affects his work. Where did he begin his religious development? America. He says that it was in America where he was really exposed to synagogues, religious people, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg triumphantly blogged that: News from Goldblog Headquarters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his country’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption to immediately shut down its ridiculous Diaspora-bashing ad campaign, which was meant to guilt Israeli expatriates in America into going home. I first wrote about this campaign here; the original post prompted Israel’s [...]
More posts and articles continue to be written about the Abba/Daddy/Christmas videos and it is just a matter of time until Jon Stewart does some parody of this. One that stands out is this post by Rabbi Charles Arian. (hat tip) Something that many people are missing is that what Israelis think of Diaspora Judaism [...]
Here are some funny parodies of the videos discussed here. I also did a little searching and the videos were skewered for different reasons by almost every Israeli media outlet online when they were released in September: NRG, Globes, Walla, The Marker. The reaction of a number of Israelis living abroad varied from “You can’t [...]
A few months ago the Israeli Ministry of Absorption and Aliyah began a campaign whose target audiences were Israelis in Israel with family or friends living aboard and Israelis living abroad. There were a number of advertisements in both the Israeli media and Israeli newspapers that are sold in America. Mostly Kosher posted about the [...]
MK, a reader of this blog, was able to fill in some background about the letter from American Jewish leaders that I posted here. On September 10, 1963 there were a number of violent demonstrations against Christian missionaries in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. The demonstrations resulted in damaged and destroyed property and over one [...]
The following letter is from the Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1964. I am not sure what’s the background, but it shows that not much has changed since then.
I once heard a statement attributed to Yossi Klein Halevi that if American Jews want to understand Israelis better they should listen to their music. The gulf between Israeli and Diaspora Jews is probably never larger than the two weeks that include Yom ha-Shoah, Yom ha-Zikaron, and Yom ha-Atzmaut. If diaspora Jews want to understand [...]
Israel Harel writes about the opposition of the Reform and Conservative movements to the Conversion Bill. The Reform and Conservative movements want to obtain official status in Israel, alongside Orthodoxy. I support this. It is this desire that is the true reason for their outcry. But even if the High Court grants their wish, their [...]
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