A funny thing about Israel is that the western New Year’s Eve is otherwise known as Sylvester.  Why? Well there are many stories and I don’t know which one is true, but here is the one that sounds most believable.  In Israel, restaurants will lose their Kashrut license if they advertise that they are putting [...]

Our brains are so precious to us and yet we still know so little about them. I am truly in awe when I think – using my brain – about this wonderful organ but researchers at Hebrew U don’t let any awestruck feelings get in the way of forging ahead to try to understand the [...]

From the Chanuka trip to the Israel Museum to climbing in the Judean desert, learning at Rothberg International School is always an exceptional experience that combines academic exploration with the discovery of this incredible country. The ‘Israel Challenge’ was designed for RIS students who are extreme sports fanatics – and saw us snappeling by the [...]

A study by Dr. Sebastian Kadenr and his student, Uri Weissbein and others, offers a light at the end of the tunnel for sufferers of sleep deprivation. Shut-eye is closer than you think thanks to the fruitfly’s body clock.

A Ph.D. graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of four young scientists in the world to be awarded the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists. He is Dr. Tommy Kaplan, who won the prize for his essay, “From DNA Sequence to Chromatin Dynamics: Computational Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation.” The GE [...]

Get ready for psy-trance Tomorrow night – December 17th,  I – along with many of my friends in  Jerusalem – will be ready to party as psychedelic trance and electronic music group Infected Mushroom will be in here for just one show! It is their first show in Israel since their album “Legend of the [...]

We are pleased to announce the grand winner of our Hebrew You launch competition. It is Dylan Segal, a sociology student at UBC who aims to become a lawyer. Dylan heard about the Hebrew You competition through a friend of his family who had seen the blog. He wrote a wonderful and very wise piece [...]

How interesting to get a glimpse into someone else’s life, especially when it’s so different from your own. Amnon (I’m not sure he actually has a last name – you know those people) gives tours all over the country and, according to him, he’s one of the only Jewish Israelis who know the Arabic dialect [...]

Yesterday I went to the shuk (the outdoor market) in Jerusalem with my mom. Our intention was to go eat kubbeh soup – and I already started a blog post about the importance of having kubbeh in your life – but as we walked down the steep hill to the Iraqi Shuk, the section of [...]

I’m sorry if you don’t get what big news this is but it turns out that a new gate is being built on the Hebrew U campus where I got my B.Sc. in nutrition. The faculty of agriculture, food and environmental sciences of Hebrew U in Rechovot (now to be called the Robert H. Smith [...]