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If you happen to be a geek like me who reads the digg.com homepage on a regular basis, you may notice a certain trend when it comes to anything about Israel that appears there: they’re all about how Israel is the root of all evil.To get on to the digg homepage, lots of diggers have [...]
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Maybe it’s because it was at the end of a very long day. Maybe it’s because Binyamin Netanyahu showed up and spoke for ages. But whatever the reason, I am exhausted from the NBN First International Jewish Bloggers Conference. Even the conference title is exhausting.Backtracking a bit: today was the NBN bloggers conference. It consisted [...]
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When we first came to Israel in the early 1990s, Israeli television was a pathetic affair. There were two channels, and the only semblance of competition between them was who could broadcast the oldest, most boring reruns possible. Commercials were worse: static screens with white text on a blue background telling us to buy something.As [...]
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So most of the world is sure that Israel is the root of all evil, and that everything would be perfect if we’d just conveniently disappear, thank you very much.A great way to work towards the goal of disappearing those darn Jews is to divest from Israel, and/or boycott the country. By putting economic strain [...]
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According to Haaretz,  Teva has been going on a “little” shopping spree, buying companies as if they were cute pairs of shoes they just had to have. (And FYI, this Teva company has no connection to the Israeli hikers’ beloved Teva sandal co., incidentally made in China.) Recently, Teva purchased Barr Pharmaceuticals, “the fourth largest [...]
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Anyone who’s been to Israel knows that catching a glimpse of snow is rare, and even welcomed as a treat. Come to think of it, I’ve never even met anyone in Jerusalem who owns a shovel. Perhaps a longing to play in the snow has pushed IDE Technologies to become a major player in the man-made [...]
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Your choices (think very carefully…)A. ItalyB. SwedenC. IsraelD. IndiaYou may not have guessd it, but Newsweek confirms that the winner is Israel! I’m not sure the last time I saw a Swedish-based show, so it may not have been a very tough competition. Regardless, Israel is starting to appear in Hollywood headlines by contributing shows [...]
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Here’s a joke that’s been going around the web for a while, but I thought I’d share:A Jewish man was sitting in Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to come in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon.Very upset, he approached him and said: “Moshe, have you lost your mind? [...]
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Here’s a joke that’s been going around the web for a while, but I thought I’d share:A Jewish man was sitting in Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to come in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon.Very upset, he approached him and said: “Moshe, have you lost your mind? [...]
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Today as on every day, I conducted my usual social media time wasting activities before getting down to work. One of my daily activities is to check what’s going on in the twitterverse (i.e. the world of twitter). Many of you have probably heard of twitter, but have no clue what it is. Fear not, [...]
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