|  | Most of the growth of the Jewish community of New York over the past decade took place in two neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
| | | | | |  | Hundreds of Israeli towns and sites can now be seen on an updated Google Street View.
| | | | | |  | Apple TV has arrived in Israel, six years after its US launch.
| | | | | |  | "Let us pray that Israelis and Palestinians may be able to live their lives in the peace of the one God and in freedom," Pope Benedict XVI said in his homily.
| | | | | |  | On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google announced on Monday the launch of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library.
| | | | | |  | We need to celebrate a Lincoln Chanukah this year.
| | | | | |  | | For eight years, one author bounced around religious institutions, interviewing spiritual leaders to find out if there was indeed a place for drugs in the Jewish world. | | | | | |  | Google launched its Campus Tel Aviv, a center for Israeli entrepreneurs and startups.
| | | | | |  | A group of students in upstate New York are planning to spin their dreidels to a Guinness World Record next week.
| | | | | |  | Sources inform 'Globes' that the official launch of the iPhone 5 in Israel will be during Hannukah in mid-December.
| | | | | |  | What were two skeletons doing at the bottom of a rare Stone Age well being excavated in the Jezreel Valley? Both skeletons were dated along with the well to approximately 8,500 years ago.
| | | | | |  | | New data from the the Israel Farmers Union reveals that mark-ups on fruits and vegetables this year have been as high as 300%. | | | | | |  | A French nonprofit said it was considering making complaints against some Twitter users following an explosion of French-language anti-Semitic messages.
| | | | | |  | | Google introduced a new online historical collection of digitized material, highlighting several Jewish themes, events and institutional partners in its first wave of exhibits. | | | | | |  | | Albert Einstein's "God Letter," a handwritten missive offering his view of religion, will be sold this month on eBay. | | | | | |  | | The American online retailer Amazon.com has stopped selling a jigsaw puzzle featuring the Dachau Nazi concentration camp following complaints. | | | | | |  | | Israel defeated South Africa in the first game of the World Baseball Classic Qualifier. Diaspora Jews are also eligible to play on the Israeli team. | | | | | |  | | A proposal to make Sunday a day off from work and school advanced in Israel. | | | | | |  | | White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, who is Jewish, told the Chicago Tribune that he was pleased with the switch. | | | | | |  | | The Anne Frank app, which will be released on October 18, will feature the full text of "The Diary of a Young Girl," alongside dozens of extra features | | | | | |  | | Jewish American Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman will be inducted into The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Suffolk, New York in April 2013. | | | | | |  | | Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said he will play for Israel at the World Baseball Classic. | | | | | |  | | Three Israeli universities have ranked in the top 100 universities worldwide in a prestigious annual ranking of the world's universities. | | | | | |  | | The trail, which extends up to 620 miles from southern to northern Israel, was named one of the 20 top hikes in the Epic Trails section. | | | | | |  | | It was a good day for Israel at the 2012 London Olympic Games on Wednesday, as Israeli athletes made history both on the tennis court and in the swimming pool. | | | | | |  | | Israeli judoka Arik Zeevi, who predicted he would win a medal at the London Olympics, lost his opening match and his shot at a medal. | | | | | |  | | The bill still has to undergo a lengthy legislative process before MKs vote on it, but if it passes, Israel will become the first country to officially ban fur sales. | | | | | |  | | While guns are ubiquitous in Israel, they are subject to civilian gun control regulations that are much stricter than American laws. | | | | | |  | President Obama joined the campaign for a moment of silence at the London Olympics to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians at the 1972 Olympics.
| | | | | |  | | Israeli fans of Guns N' Roses were delighted to see the band on stage in Tel Aviv last week and their special rendition of Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah." | | | | | |  | | For the British Jewish community, the most memorable moment of the London Olympics may be a somber one. | | | | | | | | | Kevin Youkilis is changing his Sox: The three-time All-Star was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Chicago White Sox. | | | | | |  | The Israeli men's national team opened its international tournament play with an 11-8 victory over Slovakia as part of the European Lacrosse Championship in Amsterdam.
| | | | | |  | | The author of the "Color Purple" refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her prize-winning work, citing what she called Israel's "Apartheid state." | | | | | |  | | Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the Middle East for expatriates and one of the most expensive in the world, rising seven places in the ranking to 31st place from 38th place in 2011. | | | | | |  | | An Israeli start-up company that developed a mobile app with the ability to locate the nearest cab has raised $20 million and plans on using the proceeds to launch the service in New York. | | | | | |  | Israel scored high in "life satisfaction," educational attainment and life expectancy, among other markers.
| | | | | |  | | Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, will visit Israel, his Jewish promoter Bob Arum said. | | | | | |  | | If the Talmud were written today, would it look like Facebook? | | | | | |  | | Orthodox Jewish rapper Y-Love has announced that he is gay. "I feel like I’ve wasted years of my life worrying that it would alienate the community I dedicated my life to as an artist and as a man," the 34-year-old said. | | | | | |  | | A letter written by George Washington to the Jewish community and which has been locked away for a decade will be the centerpiece of an exhibit dedicated to America's early roots in religious freedom. | | | | | |  | | A number of Jewish groups praised President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, and an Orthodox group said it was "disappointed." | | | | | | | | We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
| | | | | |  | | Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the US tells the LGBT community about the various ways Israel fights for the rights of homosexuals in the Middle East. | | | | | |  | | Smoking was snuffed out at public events and outdoor sites, including the Western Wall, under an expanded anti-smoking measure passed by Israel's Knesset. | | | | | |  | | There are now applications available through the Apple store titled "iMussolini," "iStalin," and "Hitler," espousing fascist ideals. | | | | | |  | | A Japanese linguist, who has spent decades compiling the world's first Yiddish-Japanese dictionary, has proved that one does not have to be Jewish in order to love Yiddish. | | | | | | | | For the first time, photos of the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and other locations in Israel including the Dead Sea, Kinneret, Nazareth and Mitzpe Ramon will be seen as they were photographed by Google's special vehicles.
| | | | | |  | | Masada has been ranked as the top entrance-fee tourist site in 2011. 786,000 visitors paid a record NIS 35.8 million to visit the former fortress of King Herod overlooking the Dead Sea. | | | | | |  | | In an interview on "The Daily Show," Shaquille O’Neal showed off his Hebrew skills. | | | | | |  | | The Israel Airports Authority estimates that 567,000 Israelis are heading abroad for Passover. They will take 3,630 departing flights from Ben Gurion Airport. | | | | | |  | The cheapest model in the new Tel Aviv showroom is a Maserati GT, for NIS 901,000, and the most expensive is a Ferrari FF coupe, for NIS 2.36 million.
| | | | | |  | | Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits won the Women's RS:X competition ISAF Sailing World Championships in Spain. | | | | | |  | | Israel's Knesset approved a bill that would ban the use of underweight models in advertising. The measure also requires that any ad digitally altered to make a model look thinner must say so in the advertisement. | | | | | |  | | Iranians have responded to a Facebook page posted by an Israeli couple that communicates the message that Israel loves Iran. | | | | | |  | | The starting price for the new iPad, due to officially arrive in Israel in a few weeks, will cost NIS 2,350, official Apple Inc. Importer iDigital Ltd. announced today. | | | | | |  | | Israel's Olympic Committee reversed its decision to use a commercial symbol as its official Games mascot. | | | | | |  | | Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled a wax figure of Anne Frank depicted sitting at her desk, pen in hand, smiling dreamily. The unveiling took place last week amid some criticism. | | | | | |  | | Just 6 weeks after Twitter came out with a new version for "right-to-left languages," the micro-blogging site has now added language support for Hebrew, as well as for Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. | | | | | |  | | A letter to be read in all Mormon churches warns members to stop all unauthorized posthumous baptisms, including those of Holocaust survivors. | | | | | |  | | The sales strategy launched by new BMW and Mini importer in Israel last week is paying off. | | | | | |  | The Internet consumer company said it will unite its two activity centers in Netanya and Tel Aviv into a development center.
| | | | | |  | | Deputy Mayor Assaf Zamir said in an interview, "You're allowed to drive in the city on Shabbat, and the only ones who are unable to go anywhere are those who cannot afford their own vehicles." | | | | | |  | | A group of fashion designers, singers, filmmakers and other celebrities joined forces in a show of support for the re-election of President Obama in 2012 in an event called "Runway to Win" that was hosted by Scarlett Johansson. | | | | | |  | | American Eagle Outfitters Inc. will open its first store in Israel at the Ramat Aviv Mall in Tel Aviv. | | | | | |  | | Rep. Barney Frank will marry his longtime partner. Frank came out as gay in 1987, the first congressman to do so of his own volition. | | | | | |  | | A virtual peace conference for Jewish and Arab young leaders was held on Facebook with the purpose of promoting dialogue among Israelis, Palestinians and Americans. | | | | | |  | | English versions of Wikipedia are set to shut down for 24 hours on Wednesday to register objections by the Wikimedia Foundation to what it describes as "destructive legislation." | | | | | | | | Tel Aviv has been named the best gay city for 2011 in a poll sponsored by American Airlines and Gaycities.com
| | | | | |  | | US rapper and music producer Jay-Z, whose singer wife Beyonce gave birth to their first child this week, will invest and promote Israeli wireless recharging company Powermat Technologies. | | | | | |  | | The father of pop star Katy Perry, an Evangelical preacher at an Ohio church, made some bizarre remarks against Jews during a sermon. | | | | | |  | | On Sunday, the Cabinet by a vote of 21 to 8 approved the implementation of the Law on Free Education for Children from Age Three. | | | | | | | | | 12,000 Israelis donated NIS 720,000 to Wikipedia in 2011. Altogether, Wikipedia raised more than $20 million from over one million donors in 2011, more than double the amount that it raised in 2010. | | | | | |  | | With at least 687 dreidels spinning simultaneously, the world record for most Chanukah dreidels spun simultaneously in the same room (541) appears to be topped. | | | | | |  | | A Chanukah menorah made of 25,000 dominoes was constructed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. | | | | | | | | Tel Aviv is more expensive than New York, topping it by 14 places in the ECA International survey of the world's most expensive cities in 2011. Jerusalem is ranked seven spots above New York.
| | | | | |  | | Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg in response to legal threats from Facebook. | | | | | |  | | Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry set a record for a single collection sold at auction. | | | | | |  | | Two Jerusalem hotels were among the top 10 Best in the World Middle Eastern hotels as ranked by the Conde Nast Travelers Readers' Choice Awards. | | | | | |  | | A conference of Nefesh International was a study in inclusion when members of Jewish Queer Youth, a support group for Orthodox and formally Orthodox LGBT Jews were allowed to set up a table. | | | | | |  | | Google has launched its voice search for Android and Apple's iOS in Hebrew and Arabic. Until now voice identification software could not handle Hebrew, and had to cope with Hebrew-accented English. | | | | | |  | | Israeli startup Tonara has developed an iPad app that is aimed at a potential 300 million musicians who play guitar, violin, and other instruments, amateurs and professionals alike. | | | | | | | | Israelis tweet three times more often in English than in Hebrew.
| | | | | |  | | Several organizations in Israel held Thanksgiving dinners for American "lone soldiers." | | | | | |  | Billboard ads for Wodka Vodka featured two dogs, one wearing a Santa cap and one wearing a yarmulke with the message "Christmas Quality, Hanukah Pricing."
| | | | | |  | | Dozens of worldwide fashion writers converge this week on Israel as guests of the Tourism Ministry, visiting as part of Tel Aviv Fashion Week. | | | | | |  | | A new Benetton ad campaign depicts Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas kissing each other. | | | | | | | | The incubator will host Israeli Arab and haredi Orthodox entrepreneurs in an effort to expose them to Israel's high-tech industry.
| | | | | |  | | Three Jewish former major leaguers will help Israel field a competitive team in next year’s World Baseball Classic. | | | | | |  | Five ridiculously cool apps that Google Israel will be revealing this weekend.
| | | | | |  | | Too many parents are trying to raise children while they haven't finished growing up themselves. | | | | | |  | | A new Israeli app for the Apple iPhone trains the brain to translate blurry images into clear ones. | | | | | |  | | Are Halloween masks of Jews in the news a trick or just a new treatment? | | | | | |  | | Former talk show host Montel Williams praised Israel's stance on dispensing medical marijuana and is visiting the country to learn more about its medicinal cannabis policies. | | | | | |  | | Each Sukkot we read in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, that there "is a time to tear down, and a time to build up." For my sukkah it was time for both. | | | | | |  | | A new mobile app provides a database of information about Zionism and Israel. | | | | | |  | | In the garden at the President's House in Jerusalem this morning, President Shimon Peres launched the Israeli future inventor and scientist program. | | | | | |  | | Israelis this year will consume 2,000 tons of honey during the Hebrew month of Tishrei, in which fall the Jewish High Holy Days, and the holidays of Sukkot Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. | | | | | |  | It's not every day that you come across a "kosher" sex shop, which is exactly why one young Orthodox Jewish couple decided to take matters into their own hands and create one.
| | | | | |  | | Google Inc. today began collecting images for Street View in Israel. Google launched the project at press conference outside the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem. | | | | | |  | | A Paris court sentenced fashion designer John Galliano to a suspended fine and no jail time for making anti-Semitic and racist remarks to patrons at a local cafe. | | | | | |  | | Anti-Israel protesters disrupted a live BBC broadcast of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra playing in London. | | | | | |  | | A Jewish organization in Britain has called on Madame Tussauds to make its wax replica of Hitler look more defeated. | | | | | |  | | Israel is fed up with Hollywood's duplicating Jerusalem in other countries for movie sites and is offering filmmakers cash incentives. | | | | | |  | | The Cleveland Cavaliers' Omri Casspi will not sign with his former Israeli basketball team during the NBA lockout after all. | | | | | |  | | Andy Dick lashed out in an extremely antisemitic rant towards Howard Stern, saying: "I have no problem with his big, fat, hook-nose, and his money-grubbing miserly Jewishness." | | | | | |  | | Google released a new toolbar feature that was developed in Israel. | | | | | |  | | Just how expensive is it to live in Israel? Here’s a closer look at some of the costs of living. | | | | | | | | | Omri Casspi has negotiated a contract to play with his former Israeli basketball team during the NBA lockout, the team's coach said. | | | | | | | | | Facebook will enter the Israeli coupons market in September with the launch of its location-based service Facebook Deals. | | | | | |  | | An Israeli medical technology executive has found a way to use his mother's tombstone to keep her memory alive. | | | | | |  | | 82,000 Israelis visited Turkey in July 2011, almost double the number during July 2010. | | | | | |  | | J.P. Rosenbaum, a Jewish construction manager from New York, received the final rose from "The Bachelorette," Ashley Hebert. | | | | | |
|  | | Judoku, a Jewish version of Sudoku, has been released as an application for the iPad. | | | | | |  | | Artifacts from the Second Temple period were found in Jerusalem. A sword in a scabbard that belonged to a Roman soldier and an engraving of the Temple's menorah on a stone object were discovered. | | | | | |  | | The nine days convergence is almost upon us - the nine days before Tisha B’Av overlapping with nine days until U.S. Debt meltdown. Will we soon have more reasons to mourn? | | | | | |  | | Mark Zuckerberg and Benjamin Netanyahu head The Jerusalem Post's second annual list of the world's 50 Top Jews. | | | | | |  | | Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were ranked among the world's best cities by the New York-based Travel + Leisure magazine. | | | | | |  | | When the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University decided to add another scholarship it was only natural for them to create an athletic scholarship for an outstanding Israeli hockey player. | | | | | |  | June 2011 was a record month for Israeli tourism and aviation. Despite political events, not only was Israel able to keep up last year's record of incoming tourists, but even exceeded the record by 7%.
| | | | | |  | | Amar'e Stoudemire asked fans on Twitter if he should play in Israel during the NBA lockout. | | | | | |  | | That a woman speaking on behalf of a major airline can say with a straight face that her airline allows anyone to fly on its airplanes so long as they do not expose their genitals encapsulates the decline of our civilization. | | | | | |  | | The first-of-its-kind fashion show featured over 60 outfits from the trendiest boutiques in Israel and hosted religious women of all ages. | | | | | |  | Israel has been selected by Major League Baseball to participate in the qualifying tournament for the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
| | | | | |  | Israeli judoka Arik Zeevi won a gold medal at the prestigious Moscow Grand Prix.
| | | | | |  | KISS rock star, Israeli-born Gene Simmons, says that U.S. President Barack Obama "has no idea of what the world is like." He also calls the United Nations "the most pathetic body on the face of the earth."
| | | | | |  | | Danish film director Lars Von Trier described himself as a Nazi who is not against Jews during the Cannes Film Festival. He also said he "understood Hitler" and that "Israel is a pain in the a**" | | | | | |  | A falafel ball weighing nearly 52.8 pounds created at a Jewish food festival in California has been certified as the world's largest.
| | | | | |  | | Tel Aviv is one of the world's top 10 summer party destinations, according to a popular travel website. | | | | | |  | Kirk Douglas will be honored at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this summer.
| | | | | |  | Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Zuckerberg and Gabrielle Giffords are among Time magazine's list of the most influential people of the year.
| | | | | |  | | Masada climbed above the Biblical Zoo and the Ramat Gan Safari Park to become the most visited pay-to-enter tourist site in 2010. | | | | | |  | Fashion designer John Galliano was fired from his own designer label that bears his name over accusations of anti-Semitism and racism.
| | | | | |  | A decision by Toronto's city manager would permit city funding for the Toronto Pride Parade regardless of the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
| | | | | |  | For the first time, the grand prize at Italy's leading international wine competition has been awarded to an Israeli winery.
| | | | | |  | | Over 1,700,000 people in Israel live below the poverty line. Meir Panim is working to change this, and with your help, they can lower and perhaps ultimately be rid of these alarming statistics. | | | | | |  | Juliano Mer-Khamis, a well-known Israeli-Arab actor whose mother was an Israeli-Jewish activist for Palestinian rights and father was a Christian Palestinian was shot dead by masked Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin.
| | | | | |  | | The Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return a 17th-century Dutch painting looted by the Nazis to the heir of the Jewish art dealer. | | | | | |  | | The first haredi lifestyle magazine in Israel called "Stylish" will be launched with an initial print run of 30,000 copies. | | | | | |  | | More than 10,000 runners, over a thousand from 40 countries ran in Jerusalem's first marathon. Kenyans swept the first three places. | | | | | | | | Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who maintained a support for Israel after converting to Judaism in the late 1950s, has died.
| | | | | |  | | A Dutch soccer player apologized for chanting anti-Semitic slogans caught on camera following a victory over a team with traditional Jewish support. | | | | | |  | Mr. Waters, the right to live comes before any other right.
| | | | | |  | Sacramento Kings forward Omri Casspi said he might rejoin his former Israeli pro basketball team if the NBA imposes a player lockout next season.
| | | | | | | | More than 80,000 of Albert Einstein's documents will go online in the coming months.
| | | | | |  | A British artist has prepared a ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, for Britain's Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton.
| | | | | |  | Former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters officially joined the the campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, and is urging fellow artists to do the same.
| | | | | |  | | John Galliano apologizes, saying that "Anti-Semitism and racism have no part in our society. " | | | | | |  | | A video of fashion designer John Galliano captures him saying "I love Hitler." He also tells a couple "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f***ng gassed." | | | | | |  | The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is expanding its Jewish and Israel studies offerings with the launch of a new institute.
| | | | | |  | Israelis can now watch Snooky and the rest of the "Jersey Shore" gang on MTV's new Hebrew-language channel.
| | | | | | | | | Israel is considering whether to allow the powerful Google search engine to send its photographers out to snap photos for its Street View service. | | | | | |  | Since the founding of the State in 1948, some three million Jews have immigrated to Israel, according to the statistics, with some 60 percent of them arriving from European countries.
| | | | | |  | Birthright Israel has launched an effort to reclaim the word Zionism from Israel's detractors.
| | | | | |  | An Israeli carpenter and professional juggler named by CNN News as one of its "heroes" found a way to transform grief into action after his brother was murdered by Hamas.
| | | | | |  | Israel signed an agreement with the European Space Agency on space cooperation for peaceful purposes.
| | | | | |  | Apple removed the anthem of the Nazi Party from the German iTunes online music store.
| | | | | |  | | A Jewish hockey player has sued the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks for religious discrimination and harassment based on religion. | | | | | |  | | Soldiers in IDF's Nachal Brigade, who are about to be placed on duty in Judea and Samaria's checkpoints, underwent an training session which was conducted by theater actors. | | | | | |  | | Tal Brody, Israeli basketball great, is among the 2011 inductees to the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. | | | | | |  | A quarter million new Internet users joined Israel's online community in 2010, to 4.67 million Jewish and Arab users over the age of 13.
| | | | | |  | Israel's government announced it would more than double its investment in the popular Birthright Israel program.
| | | | | |  | Haifa is poised to be the next home to a Disney amusement park.
| | | | | |  | Archaeologists are hoping to save the ruins of the Biblical era Tower of Babel, located in Iraq, and learn how it was built before it crumbled under the weight of confusion.
| | | | | |  | Israeli scientists say they have succeeded in breathing new life into rare species of animals that once were nearly extinct in the region.
| | | | | |  | The Palestine National Orchestra performed for the first time in the Palestinian Authority and in Israel. "Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state," one advocate said.
| | | | | |  | More than 19,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel in 2010, a 16 percent rise over last year.
| | | | | |  | Eight teeth found in a cave in central Israel are reportedly the earliest remains of Homo sapiens ever discovered.
| | | | | |  | Rising football star Gabe Carimi talks football and his passion for Judaism.
| | | | | |  | A record number of international tourists flooded into the "little town of Bethlehem" this holiday season, according to both PA and Israeli officials.
| | | | | |  | A rabbi delivered the invocation at the enactment of a law allowing gays to serve openly in the U.S. military.
| | | | | |  | For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together. Ever wondered why?
| | | | | |  | Scientists gathered in Jerusalem to mark the conclusion of a decade-long world census of sea life that has brought to light an additional 1,200 new species of marine flora and fauna.
| | | | | |  | The Apple iPad was officially launched in Israel, after an eight-month delay.
| | | | | |  | Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita scored a knockout in the third round to take the vacant New York State welterweight title.
| | | | | |  | Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
| | | | | |  | The granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush is engaged to marry the son of famed Jewish fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
| | | | | |  | Tourism to Israel broke yet another all-time record in November, when 310,000 visitors entered the country - more than during any previous month in modern history.
| | | | | |  | A 19th century bare-knuckles pugilist and a pioneer women’s judo champion are among seven elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
| | | | | |  | A computer program pioneered at Tel Aviv U's Department of Biomedical Engineering determines how much stimulation or "mechanical load" can be tolerated by the fat cells which produce the fat in the body.
| | | | | |  | Israel honored its 3,000,001st tourist - a pastor leading an evangelical group - for 2010.
| | | | | |  | Scientists are drilling a bore hole under the Dead Sea, penetrating 1,200 meters deep into the surface of the lowest place on earth to examine the area’s geological history.
| | | | | |  | Vice President Joe Biden, Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler headlined a festive opening weekend for the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
| | | | | |  | Visitors to the bi-annual Robotics Conference in Israel had a chance to meet Spiderman, at least in the form of a robot.
| | | | | |  | | Turkey presents another anti-Zionist production, a movie in which a revenge campaign is carried out against a fictitious Israeli who commanded the boarding of the IHH terrorist Mavi Marmara ship. | | | | | |  | Youtube has removed from its site an undisclosed number of the hundreds of jihad-call videos by American-born, Yemen-based Anwar al-Awlaki.
| | | | | |  | Wounded U.S. Army veterans visiting Israel on a bike riding tour have discovered that American mainstream media give a false picture of Israel.
| | | | | |  | Atiqot, the leading journal of the Israel Antiquities Authority, is now available online in English, with the first edition dedicated to the excavations and surveys.
| | | | | |  | Tel Aviv is among the world's top 10 cities for 2011 listed by the popular Lonely Planet travel guide website.
| | | | | |  | An Egyptian author has threatened legal action against Israeli publishers who released an unauthorized Hebrew translation of his bestselling novel.
| | | | | |  | Jerusalem and the walls of the Old City was lit in pink this week as the city marked Breast Cancer Week.
| | | | | |  | Israel’s real estate market currently ranks at number one worldwide after adjustments.
| | | | | |  | The festival, which is intended to be a celebration of pure Israeli cinema, runs about 35 films of a variety of genres, including features and documentaries.
| | | | | |  | | Israel's army will block its soldiers' access to social media sites while they are on base. | | | | | |  | | Two Israeli physicists are among the top 10 scientists to be awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science by U.S. President Barack Obama. | | | | | |  | | A British Jewish author won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for a comic book about what it means to be Jewish today. | | | | | |  | | Some 2.5 million tourists have visited Israel since the beginning of 2010. That's 9 percent more than in 2008, which was the record tourism year in Israel. | | | | | |  | | The synagogue where Bob Dylan celebrated his bar mitzvah is for sale. | | | | | |  | | Israel’s Tourism Ministry has launched a country-wide iPhone tourism application, providing immediate and updated information on sites, tours, accommodation and events in Israel. | | | | | |  | | Spain and Britain will boycott an international tourism conference being held in Jerusalem after their demands to move it to Tel-Aviv were not met. | | | | | |  | | After expressing regret for publishing a gay wedding announcement, the New Jersey Jewish Standard says it now regrets the hasty apology. | | | | | |  | | A newly-released design for the 'Ground Zero Mosque' incorporates the hexagram and appears to be dominated by Stars of David. | | | | | |  | | The Kibbutz Movement is marking this month’s 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Kibbutz in Israel - Kibbutz Degania, just off the southwestern tip of the Kinneret. | | | | | |  | | Peace Now has launched a new iPhone application that tracks Jewish settlement activity in Judea and Samaria. | | | | | |  | | The traditional 'Jerusalem Sukkot March'” is returning, and in a big way. 75,000 people are expected to join in. | | | | | |  | | A third Samaritan synagogue in the Beit She’an area, south of the Kinneret Sea estimated to be some 1,500 years old, was discovered before the holidays. | | | | | |  | | A new type of nanoparticle shaped like a Star of David has been discovered by researchers at Hebrew U. The discovery of the tiny particle may lead to new ways for sensing glucose in diagnosing diabetes. | | | | | |  | | A famous Israeli soccer coach in the UK will miss one of his team’s games since it falls on the holiest days in the Jewish year. | | | | | |  | | Actor Billy Crystal has made a gift to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to foster ongoing activities at the 'Billy Crystal Peace through the Performing Arts' project. | | | | | |  | | An organization supported by Christians throughout the world donated more than $1 million in food packages to aid 20,000 Israeli families during Jewish and Muslim holidays. | | | | | |  | | In a major breakthrough in kidney disease research, a team of Israeli scientists isolated a genetic mutation that is linked to contracting the disease. | | | | | |  | | Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita was victorious in his return to the ring after being knocked out in a title bout. | | | | | |  | | American Jewish attachment to Israel is holding steady despite recent controversies. | | | | | |  | | On the annual European Day of Jewish Culture, synagogues, Jewish museums and even ritual baths and cemeteries are open to the public, and hundreds of seminars, exhibits, concerts, and tours are offered. | | | | | |  | | Netanyahu denounced the boycott at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting, saying 'the last thing we need is a boycott attempt from within Israel while international leftists try to make Israel appear illegitimate.' | | | | | |  | | Activists from the Our Land of Israel movement are calling for a boycott of actors who declared that they would boycott performances in the town of Ariel in Samaria. | | | | | |  | | Renault SA has begun field tests in Israel for the electric car it has developed, in time to run the vehicle through its paces during the hottest time of the year. | | | | | |  | | Can Israelis survive without the original "Bamba" snack food? Will shoppers buy Heinz ketchup and give up on the Israeli Osem brand? | | | | | |  | | Newsweek has deigned to rank the top 100 countries in the world - giving Israel the 22nd slot, and number one in the Middle East. | | | | | |  | | Harvard University has sold millions of dollars' worth of shares in Israeli companies, but insists that it is not divesting from Israel. | | | | | |  | | A group of vocal British leftists called to boycott Israeli goods, targeting the major supermarket chains Waitrose and Morrisons. The Fair Play Campaign organization has made a positive response, announcing a 'buycott.' | | | | | |  | | 3.1 million tourists visited Israel during 5770 - 18 percent more than in 5769, when the number of tourists was 2.6 million. | | | | | |  | | Google removed Nazi-related applications from its Android downloads following protests from Jewish users. | | | | | |  | | Tina Wasserman explores the concept of 'Jewish' food and shares some exciting recipes. | | | | | |  | | El Al and JetBlue will now offer connecting options for customers traveling between the United States and Israel. | | | | | |  | | Archaeologists working in northern Israel have uncovered an extremely rare 2,200-year-old gold coin, minted in Alexandria by King Ptolemy V. | | | | | |  | | First it was McDonalds. Then came ToysRUs, Office Depot FOX and a host of others. Now Payless Shoes has discovered Israel. | | | | |
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