Some of my favorites were the fig and Gorgonzola on a thick toasted cracker; the roasted beet slice with a dollop of buratta/mozzarella ball and a splash of balsamic on baguette; the toast with a sautéed mushroom and onion reduction; the baccala (now I understand Rosemary Clooney’s “Hey...
It was breathtakingly gorgeous, but for me, quite sad, as just a few miles to the North between two mountain peaks, I could see Ayta alShab, the Lebanese town where Michael Levin, a Lone Soldier for the IDF from Philadelphia, was killed by Hizbollah forces in the Second Lebanese War (...
On 11 May, 1949, Israel took its seat as the 59th member of the United Nations. In accordance with the concept of the 'ingathering of the exiles' which lies at the heart of Israel's raison d'etre, the gates of the country were thrown open, affirming the right of every Jew to come...
Since there are very few VPN providers with working servers in Israel, Surfshark automatically becomes one of the top choices for people who want to access Israeli content from abroad. Moreover, with such a wide coverage worldwide, Surfshark is equally desirable for people residing in Israel but...
Governments Don’t Get Startups Steve Blank SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up...
The entire nonproliferation process will collapse and the world will be living on a hair-trigger if Iran becomes a nuclear military power. It is unlikely at this late date that the Biden administration will come to its senses, but presumably the American voters will. In the m...
According to Roman Catholic teachings about the Sacraments (mystagogy), a person becomes a member of the Church through Baptism. “Original sin” is washed away. Orthodoxy teaches the same, but the idea of an “original sin” or “inherited guilt” (from Adam) has no part in her thinking...
If only Tel Aviv sat at the negotiating table, we can imagine the answer. The question becomes much more complex as we examine the different points of the agreement. “Jerusalem must be recognized internationally as the capital of the State of Israel. Al Quds (or another name selected by th...
But as I step out of my car it becomes clear they’re all closed. Of course, I realize. For 14 months they’ve been gathering dust, their customers and employees gone. Reopening will be more complicated than flicking on a switch and lighting the ovens. Equipment needs to be cleaned, da...
rabbis to conduct these and other religious ceremonies—raising the very issue of who may legitimately be called a rabbi. Likewise, Israel faced the question of how toassimilatemore than 250,000 non-Jews who had been part of the Russian emigration, raising the question of how one becomes a...