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Please don't stop the music, Tel Aviv's impressive summer lineup of international artists has just gotten larger.
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Beatle’s Concert Puts Israel
Photo: GPO U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel for a series of meetings with top Israeli and Palestinian officials.Two major issues on the agenda include Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and putting an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “Progress occurs in the Middle East wh...
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Nobody said it was going to be fun: Etgar Keret
On Transcending Politics, Translating Politics, Israeli Politics, Bus Driver Politics, and Grandmas with Guns
Tuesday, April 6th, 8pm, Columbia University - Dodge 501
Join the Center for Literary Translation for an evening with Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret.
One of... the most successful Israeli writers today, Keret’s work has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, The Paris Review and more. Keret`s books have been published in 28 languages, 34 countries, and counting.
He has also won the Cannes Film Festival`s "Camera d`Or" Award with his wife Shira Gefen for their film Jellyfish. This event will feature a screening of their film “What about me?”
Presented by the Center for Literary Translation, Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program
www.centerforliterarytranslation.org
Free and open to the public.
For more information visit - http://centerforliterarytranslation.org/
(Photo by Moshe Shai)
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, April 6th
Location:The Center for Literary Translation - Columbia University
Bank of Israel's governor gives FOX Business the exclusive.
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In Gaza, Hamas continues to govern along the extremes. Moderate voices are being drowned out by the few in power who wish to create a complete Islamic society. In a bizarre piece of legislation announced this week, men have been banned from working in women’s hair salons.Instead of finding ...
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Chicken soup is not only pure solace on a chilly day, but also a true remedy for colds, sore throats, and even broken hearts!
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Consulate General of Israel in New York Hamas law: Men are now forbidden to work as women's hairdressers
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In Gaza, Hamas continues to govern along the extremes. Moderate voices are being drowned out by the few in power who wish to create a complete Islamic society.
It's hard to imagine that a website started in a Harvard dorm room would, in just a few years, impact military policy halfway across the world.
Recently, on a University of California campus, several dozen students repeatedly and brutally interrupted my lecture. Their goal was to undermine the freedom of expression and delegitimize the Israeli state. They did not achieve it. I finished my speech, but neither did I applaud, as did many ot...
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On March 9, writers behind the original series will meet their American counterparts for a discussion on adapting the Israeli series into an all-American show.
Could eating peanuts be the way to prevent peanut allergies?
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The rich dramatic possibilities of psychotherapy are at the heart of the powerful Israeli TV series Be-Tipul, which has become HBO's award-winning In Treatment. The team behind these shows reveals what it took to adapt Be-Tipul for a domestic audience. They'll analyze the challenges of marketing Israeli television in A...merica and discuss what both programs teach us about psychotherapy and its depiction in popular culture.
Tuesday Mar 09
6:30 PM - Tribeca Film Center
Now Consulate fans can attend for free!
Follow this link - http://www.nywift.org/newsletter.aspx?ID
The registration link, will take you to the page that asks for member category. You scroll down and you will see Israeli Consulate button.
You click the button and it doesn't charge anything.
Time:6:30PM Tuesday, March 9th
Location:Tribeca Film Center 375 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013
Israeli minister of Defense Ehud Barak says that U.S and Israeli administrations are on the same page regarding putting new sanctions on Iran. In an interview to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Minister Barak stated that evidence is piling up regarding Iranian intentions to produce nuclear warhe...
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For those of you who love the Swedes, assembling your own furniture, or just looking for a mile long stroll, be sure to check out the new IKEA store opening on March 9th. While it will be Israel’s second store, the Rishon Lezion location is sure to be the biggest in the region.
Media Icon, Wendy Williams is this year's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. award recipient. The award was given to Williams by the Consulate General of Israel in New York for her work toward dialogue, understanding and compassion between people of different backgrounds.
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How You Doin' Israel?
Wendy Williams receives MLK Award from Israeli Consulate
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Al Gore joins Richard Branson in supporting an innovative Israeli start-up that aims to help save lives, the environment, and money.
Almost overnight, Israeli cuisine is shaping up to be one of 2010's hottest new trends. Israeli cuisine is more than just hummus and tabouli, it's an eclectic mix of everything Mediterranean and Middle Eastern with an influence from countries as distant as Argentina and India. Be
With lobster-like claws, a stinger-capped tail, and the ability to kill a human with its poisonous venom, a scorpion is not exactly nature's most cuddly little creature. So it's no surprise to associate scorpions with pain, right?
The University of Haifa has created a three-year “medical clowning” degree to lift spirits in hospitals. Israeli medical clowns really aren't just clowning around.
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Join Heeb Magazine and the Office of Cultural Affairs Consulate General of Israel in New York at the Oscar Party in celebrating the past year in Jewish and Israeli cinema—including Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man and Ajami—at the newly opened West 3rd Common in NoHo.
Featuring drink specials ($3 Miller Lite and Yuen...gling) and a live broadcast of the Oscars along with running commentary from our favorite brother and sister comedy duo, Eliot and Ilana Glazer.
When: Sunday, March 7
Where: West 3rd Common, 1 West 3rd Street NY, NY 10012
Price: FREE
About Heeb Magazine:
We are a take-no-prisoners magazine and website producing original content covering news, culture and satire for the plugged-in and preached-out. Heeb is honest, unadulterated and devoted to its young Jewish audience—not some agenda.
About the Glazers:
Eliot and Ilana Glazer are brother and sister. Both in their early twenties, they are officially New York's weirdest, Jewwiest sibling duo in the ENTIRE alt-comedy scene. Take THAT, Jeff Foxworthy!
Time:8:00PM Sunday, March 7th
Location:West 3rd Common
Shahar Peer pulled off a magnificent upset Wednesday morning in Dubai, defeating top ranked Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championship.
Israeli archaeologists discover 1,400-year-old wine press 25 miles (40 km) south of Jerusalem.
SchnitzelOne of the most common dishes one can find in Israel is the chicken cutlet, aka schnitzel. Although it can be considered an eastern European dish, people from different ethnic backgrounds make it so popularly in Israel, it’s become a nationwide staple.Israelis often make it for din...
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Hand sanitizers have become a $200-million-a-year industry in the U.S., and the industry continues to grow. While the fear of contracting swine flu has been a significant engine behind the growth of the industry, most people don’t realize that according to the Center for Disease Control, t...
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Photo by Ilan KleinWhen the home team blows a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter, you normally expect the arena to fill with boos from disappointed fans. On Tuesday night, Madison Square Garden had a very different vibe. Perhaps Knicks fans are just used to such embarrassing performances, or may...
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Less than a month since the devastating earthquake, it is important to remember that the job of saving Haiti has only just begun. For everyone who was fortunate enough to be pulled from rubble and for every child born in the apocalyptic landscape that is now Port-au-Prince, their future is far f...
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What do Marylin Monroe and Elvis Presley have in common with Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, and Franz Kafka?All have been subjects in the paintings of Andy Warhol, the avant- garde American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, who was a leader of the Pop Art movement.Warhol’s “Ten Portra...
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A visit to the hospital is an experience in being poked and prodded in the most unpleasant ways. Some years ago, Israeli hospitals began to incorporate clowns into their patient-care staff. Not just any clowns, though – these hospital clowns were specially trained to cheer up patients, br...
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It was The Times that first reported the use of white phosphorus shells during Operation Cast Lead and now it is The Times that is telling the world that Israel has the ability and the morality to investigate itself and take necessary action, if required as “Israel is a nation both keen an...
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Photo: Israel Nature and Parks Authority History is full of hidden little gems. One of them is the story of the Persian Fallow Deer, a once-extinct species in Israel that in recent years has been reintroduced into nature with help of… Iran.In 1978, moments before the Islamic revolution, a ...
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