A Taiwanese recently pointed out to me that a local Taiwanese show "The World is So Big" (世界那么大) visited Israel a few times this past year, and I was surprised to see just how many episodes they had on Israel. I recognized the Taiwanese translating to Hebrew and English in the Israel shows to [...]
A few weeks back, before leaving Israel, I was quite surprised to see what a “Jewish Blogger Conference” was when I entered it. I really felt like an outsider and in the first few minutes contemplated leaving and giving the whole thing a miss, but sticking around had its benefits and I got to see [...]
I’m the only Israeli student in southern Taiwan, as far as I’m aware, and although it sounds a bit culturally lonely, it does bring up some unique opportunities. During Friday and Saturday I joined the Israeli Technion president, Dr. Yitzhak Apeloig, while he was visiting NCKU with his charming wife – Mrs. Tzippi Apeloig. It [...]
Lots of Israeli/Jewish blogophere coverage of the Beijing Olympics. JTA has a whole page dedicated to the subject with various interesting posts like “A ’shalom’ from Chinese schoolchildren” and “A bar mitzvah amid the medals” and terrific photos :
But the highlight of it all is definitely their video of asking Chinese folks about [...]
After over a week of embarrassing results for the Israeli athletes Israel finally won a medal. National pride almost completely shattered, but is now somewhat restored. From Xinhua :
(Photo : Reuters)
Earlier Wednesday, Zubari, who was considered one of the Israeli Olympic team’s best hopes for a medal, won the bronze medal of the men’s [...]
Last week the Museum of Italian Jews in down-town Jerusalem celebrated Italian culture with lots of great food and arts from Italy.
The Italian Jewish community in Jerusalem is small but vibrant, orbiting around the community synagogue and museum at the foot of Hillel Street downtown - and like most Italians, they know how to [...]
