Lifestyle
List of Top Boutique Wineries in Israel Showcases Vino Variety
Israel has carved out a place on the global wine stage in recent years, much thanks to the impressive multiplication of wineries that have come to dot the country’s landscape. Sales of Israeli wines stand at $315 million per year, according to Wines Israel, and the country exports some $30 million worth of wine annually. The main importers of Israeli wines are the US, France, the UK, Canada,...
April 27, 2012 10:30 am
Top New York Restaurants Indulge in Israeli Caviar
Daniel, one of Manhattan’s most revered restaurants and a favorite of the pre-theater...
April 10, 2012 1:33 pm
A Quiet Education Revolution
A quiet revolution is taking place in the Israeli education system. When the next school...
April 6, 2012 1:32 pm
Passover 2012: 8 Things to Know
Fox News – Passover is the holiday which celebrates the Exodus from Egypt and the next...
April 6, 2012 11:55 am
Two Largest UK Supermarket Chains Not Kosher for Passover
The two biggest British supermarket chains are selling matzah meals that are not certified...
April 5, 2012 12:39 pm
IDF on Full Alert for Passover (PHOTOS)
The IDF is making preparations to celebrate the holiday of Passover, which commemorates the...
March 29, 2012 4:28 pm
The 4 Best New Passover Cookbooks
KC Jewish Chronicle – A recipe doesn’t have to be complicated to be delicious, nor...
March 27, 2012 3:06 pm
The Israeli Cure for Bad Breath: Green Tea
According to a study from Israel’s Institute of Technology, green tea can prevent bad breath,...
March 27, 2012 11:43 am
Israeli Robots Shoot for U.S. Competition
Forward Omri Casspi made the leap from Israel to the National Basketball Association in 2009,...
March 15, 2012 3:33 pm
Bat/Bar Mitzvahs: More Than Just Collecting Checks From Family Friends
At age 12, Sally Gottesman—now a not-for-profit consultant, largely in the Jewish community—was...
March 15, 2012 10:06 am
75% of Israelis Want to Invest More Money into Academic Research
JPost – Three-quarters of the Israeli public think the state invests too little money...
March 13, 2012 2:30 pm
Que Syrah, Syrah (Stylistic Differences Between Syrah & Shiraz)
Syrah is a grape native to France’s Rhône Valley. I believe this varietal has great potential...
March 5, 2012 2:25 pm
The Taste of Purim, Year Round
Hamantaschen, as three-cornered pastries representing the evil Haman’s ears, are most “timely”...
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Personalities Sports
NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach
JNS.org - At the start of each nationally televised game of the 2013 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, ABChas aired a film-clip montage of basketball’s great players and coaches—a montage that includes Jewish coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the mastermind behind nine championship teams for the Boston Celtics. Red was one of four children of Marie and Hyman Auerbach. Hyman was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who left Belarus when he was 13. The couple owned a deli and [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish History
The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity
JNS.org - The sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France, the Marx Brothers became zany masters of stage and screen who continue to captivate audiences. But in addition to providing comic relief, their films captured the drama of the entry of their marginalized religion into the U.S. Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the 2012 book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, explains that the Marx Brothers’ Jewishness as a family “was evident, marked, thoroughly legible.” “Within a family already marked as Jewish within [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish Identity
SuperJew
For my shekels, the question of whether the comic book character Superman, is Jewish or not shouldn’t even be questioned. Born and named Kal-El by his father Jor-El, “El” is one of the ancient names for God used throughout the bible and found in great prophets such as Samue-el, Dani-el and angels Micha-el and Gavri-el and of course, Isra-el. As Simcha Weinstein in his entertaining book, “Up, Up And Oy Vey” points out, “Kal” is the root of several Hebrew [...]
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Israel Sports
Formula 1 Road Show Thrills Jerusalem
JNS.org – Some 100,000 people attended Israel’s first-ever Formula 1 Road Show in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday. For several hours, the controversies that normally characterize Jerusalem were put aside, and a diverse mosaic of Israelis watched up close as the motor-sport stars temporarily conquered the city. “It was an amazing experience, the most fast and furious thing I have seen,” spectator Masada Porat told Israel Hayom. “It was a rare, extreme event that explodes in your face.” Spectator Irena [...]
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Book Reviews Jewish Identity
Klara’s Journey Casts Jews in Fast-Paced Adventure Through Russian History
JNS.org – “If you’re sick, move away. Have some consideration for others,” a red army soldier scolds a slow-moving old man selling train tickets. “No, fires back the old man, proud, haughty, not realizing it’s a new country, a Bolshevik country where force heads the list instead of civility,” reads the following line in Ben G. Frank’s new novel, Klara’s Journey, released June 1. Reminiscent of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago—whose backdrop is also a train ride across the Russian frontier during the [...]
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Personalities Theater
Nora Ephron, Famed Jewish Screenwriter, Remembered Through Tribeca Film Festival Prize
JNS.org – For filmmaker Meera Menon, no honor could have been more fitting than winning the inaugural award named after famed Jewish screenwriter and novelist Nora Ephron, the woman whose work inspired her. At the recent 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Menon was named the first recipient of the $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize, given to a writer or director whose work embodies that of the late Ephron, who wrote the scripts for a number of hit films, including “When Harry Met [...]
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Book Reviews Personalities
Book Review: ‘Jewish Jordan’ Memoir an Important Guide for Players and Coaches
JNS.org – Despite his friends’ and family’s doubts that a young Orthodox Jewish athlete could ever play college or professional basketball without compromising his religious values, between 1999 and 2009 the “Jewish Jordan” defied conventional wisdom and found his place on the court. In his new memoir, Jewish Jordan’s Triple Threat, Tamir Goodman describes his triumphs and disappointments in life, crediting his practice of Judaism for shaping his identity as an athlete and his understanding of basketball as a team sport. [...]
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Blogs Sports
Omri Casspi, ‘Jewish Jordan’ Partner on Basketball Camps to Inspire Youths On and Off the Court
Tamir Goodman (left) and NBA forward Omri Casspi—pictured on the court of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls—together run basketball camps that seek to inspire youths on and off the court. Photo: Courtesy Tamir Goodman. JNS.org – Before last year, basketball camps for Jewish youths never had an instructor quite like Omri Casspi, a forward for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and the first Israeli-born player in NBA history. Casspi is a de facto ambassador for [...]
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