If you’ve spent any time around religious Jews, you know that there’s a whole ton of holidays around September/October and then nothing until December. It’s the longest stretch in the Jewish year, and it’s especially visible in Israel, where the entire country goes from Rosh-Hashanah-Yom-Kippur-Sukkot-Simchat-Torah insanity to two months without a single break. It’s so [...]

Geez, I didn’t know that Jews can keep a tune. : ) The music here is RICH!!! Because it’s not only about beautiful melodies, interesting rhythms and funky instruments. It’s actually about meaningful words as well. Hadag Nachas – הדג נחש Hadag Nachash is an example of an Israeli hip hop-funk group that sings about… [...]

Some interesting facts from Iraelpedia! Bet you didn’t know some of this stuff: * In 2004, Raleb Magadla, a Muslim Arab, became Israel’s Minister of Culture. * The technology used by NASA to transmit videos to earth from the moon was developed by two Israeli scientists. * The Israeli start-up company TransChip (subsequently purchased by [...]

I had this very idealistic idea of Shabbat is Israel before I came here–something that involved Shira Hadasha and lots of spiritual experiences. Now that I’m here, however, I’m realizing just how idealistic that was. Yes, there are a lot of Jews in Israel, which means a lot of synagogues and people celebrating Shabbat. However, [...]

You know those negative things you hear about living in Israel? Like, for example, that it’s harder to get by financially here than in North America? Or that it can be hard getting used to the cultural differences here? Well, there is truth in those statements. There are certain aspects of life here that are [...]

On Wednesday, November 25th at 19:00 here’s a really cool thing to do. Visit Tmol Shilshom for an incredible talk called: Science Café: Small Evolution by Dr. Liran Carmel from the Genetics Department of the Hebrew University. He will talk about evolution and D.N.A. and the facts will blow your mind. It will be co-sponsored [...]

A: I think the #1 motivation is to be part of a world-renowned institution, a world-renowned university that indeed was established by some of the intellectual giants of the last century Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, etc…It is the only Israeli university in the top 100 (internationally); they want to be part of that outstanding institution, [...]

A group of HU students have decided to fix Israels PR and alleviate medias misinformation by launching a facebook tool – Israelpedia to promote Israel from a more realistic perspective.   The students, currently StandWithUs Fellows, have already signed up 3,000 Facebook friends using the application. When you think that the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...]

I always wondered about the name the Blue Hole Bar?  It’s actually named after a dangerous Red Sea dive site Check out this video (pretty awesome) I guess you could call this bar a bit of a dive – but don’t get me wrong – its a cool dive. The type of dive you want [...]

For just browsing and being ‘part’ of it all, the Souk in the muslim quarter is always a sensual delight. But sometimes a girls got to head to the mall! Malcha Mall in Israel is my best Mall to shop in. Here you can eat, pray and shop all in one place. Seriously – only [...]