This is part two of Jewneric's coverage of the Herzliya Conference, Israel's foremost global policy annual gathering, drawing together Israeli and international participants from the highest levels of government, business and academia to address pressing national, regional and global strategic issues. ...
The Herzliya Conference is Israel's foremost global policy annual gathering, drawing together Israeli and international participants from the highest levels of government, business and academia to address pressing national, regional and global strategic issues. ...
Around twenty years ago when I was at MIT, I spent far more hours than I care to contemplate combating anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda on Usenet. This was back before the Web took off, and Usenet was the happening place for bigots, racists and nutjobs of all sort to spread their filth and lies. There were a lot of them, and they were extremely prolific. Some of them were working alone, ...
The final documentary featured in this year's SnagFilms SummerFest is "Holy Land Hardball." The film follows the dubious formation of the Israel Baseball League (IBL) by Larry Baras, a Boston bakery owner with no sports management experience. Stirred to action by a midlife crisis, Baras recruits a diverse collection of executives and ballplayers for the IBL, the first ever professional baseball circuit in the Middle East. You can view this documentary for free on SnagFilms ...
You would think that after voting for a Barkat and a Barack respectively in the local Jerusalem and U.S. elections, the logical next choice would be to support a Barak (Ehud that is) in the upcoming Israeli national elections. Would that it were that easy. The major parties fielded for the 2009 elections have got to be the worst in years. Which is too bad. When elections ...
There is a war going on in our country. Fathers, brothers, sons, cousins and friends are leaving their families to go fight this war. The people left behind remain worried, nervous and on edge. They brace for the worst and pray for the best. Wars are different when your life is touched by it - when you know the soldiers fighting. In Jerusalem, our lives are not affected physically by what's going on, at least ...
Is it possible that even when you do the right thing it will bring you negative consequences? Imagine that your Aunt walks into the room, this is the first time you have seen her since she became ill. She looks gaunt and pail, but you want to cheer her up so you tell her that she looks great. She smiles and says you’re just saying that, but you can tell it pleased ...
Our friend Joan called last night just as the news broke that the IDF had begun its ground operation in Gaza. Joan was panicked. She knew a number of families in our neighborhood who had boys in combat units. “Why are we doing this?” she said. “Can’t we pull them all out now?” My first reaction was detached, though certainly not uncaring. I had been obsessively following the ...
Happy Chanukah!! It is really such a delight to walk down the streets in Israel and see all the lit menorot that the municipality puts up. There are shining chanukiot on the street lights and Chabad has put up their menorah sans fire truck in the center of town. The chanukah cheer is further reinforced by the amount of sufganiyot consumed. For some reason these fried doughnuts bring a joy and happiness that surpass all other ...
I have visited Israel three times, all within the past five years. Friends and family who visited Israel many more years ago have related stories of the country from days past. I find it fascinating to compare them to my own experiences and see how the country has changed so much in such a short period of time. In particular, one characteristic that keeps coming up in these stories is that of a lackluster ...
