It seems that as of late almost everyone, including the Hillary Clinton, has been talking about women in Israel. Whether it is women in the army, on advertisements, or the gym at the Technion. While there are definitely misogynistic Israelis and much that could be improved, I think that many people have an over simplified [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One only has to look at today’s Jerusalem Post to see a number of articles about the problematic relationship between Israelis and religion, and between groups of Israelis that are found in different places when it comes to religious observance, belief, etc. But, there is also another side of the coin. Israel’s Channel Two had [...]
On Dec. 12 there is going to be a conference at Beit ha-Tenuah ha-Kibbutzit in Tel Aviv about the role of Judaism and synagogues on the kibbutz. There are an increasing number of synagogues that are being built on kibbutzim that don’t belong to the Religious Kibbutz Movement. Some of these synagogues are being built [...]
A classic and beloved Israeli song about love is עטור מצחך (“Your Forehead is Ornamented [in Black Gold]“) [lyrics/translation]. The words were written by Avraham Ḥalfi, the music by Yoni Richter, and it was sung by Arik Einstein. The song describes the love of a man for a woman. Recently it became known that the [...]
From Haaretz: The ministerial committee on ceremonies and symbols said this week the wording of the Yizkor memorial prayer for fallen soldiers should return to its original version at state ceremonies. The prayer recited at the official state ceremony on Mount Herzl that marks the end of Memorial Day and the start of the Independence [...]
Last week, the Israeli rock singer Barry Sacharoff paid a visit to the Chabad affiliated beit midrash in Tel Aviv, Bayit Ḥadash le-Midrash. Below are some videos of what resulted from that visit. For more on the visit, see this article (Hebrew) from Ynet.
Mika Karni (bio on Hebrew Wikipedia) is a popular Israeli singer who has recently become involved with teaching music to groups of Israeli religious women. Below are two videos. The first is from this article about the religious music school Mizmor. The second (in Hebrew) is from this Ynet article about a female a cappela [...]
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