We know that when you mention Israel to most folks, all too often, the images that spring to mind involve deserts, warfare and bloody conflict.
But anyone who has visited the Land of Milk and Honey will tell you that Israel is so much more than that
But anyone who has visited the Land of Milk and Honey will tell you that Israel is so much more than that
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- Freshkills Park Talks: Sustain...
The Arsenal, 830 5th Avenue, New Yo...
Monday, December 7 at 6:30pm - Max Brenner: For the Love of C...
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Sunday, November 15 at 7:30pm - Max Brenner: For the Love of C...
92nd Street Y
Sunday, November 15 at 7:30pm - Ira Glass and Etgar Keret: Is ...
The New York Public Library
Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00pm - Outdoor Cinema 2009 - Waltz Wi...
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
Wednesday, August 5 at 7:00pm - Coolooloosh at Joe's Pub
Joe's Pub
Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm - Voices from El-Sayed - screeni...
On the roof of the Old American Can...
Saturday, June 27 at 8:00pm - Voices from El-Sayed - screeni...
On the roof of the Old American Can...
Wednesday, June 24 at 9:00pm - Tel Aviv Beach Party in Centra...
Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park
Sunday, June 21 at 11:00am - A Night of Harmony - Marking I...
Apollo Theater
Tuesday, April 28 at 6:30pm
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Outdoor Cinema 2009 - Waltz With BashirCreated about 5 months ago
Getty ImagesThe broken meter. The Holy Grail of parking. Finding this dream spot just got a whole lot easier for New York City drivers thanks to a new iPhone app. The application, called NYC Broken Meters, was developed by Raviv Turner, a native Israeli and former officer in the Armored Corps who...
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Photo: Asaf Azran The Israeli Antiquities Authority has revealed today, Just in time for Christmas, the remains of a house dated to Jesus Christ’s time in the city of Nazareth. The house was discovered by archeologists preforming rescue excavations by the church of the Annunciation in the c...
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Featured in the December 19th edition of the Albany Times Union, an editorial by Joel Lion explores the steps Israel is making to realize a two-state solution. Following the historic yet controversial settlement freeze, Lion looks at where the Israeli people are today, and how the Palestinians ca...
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Photo Shahar Azran Though Israel is more known for its beach life and sunshine, for the Zaretsky family Israel is all about ice. This week the Israeli hope for a Winter Olympic medal, gave a free show for the holiday skaters at Bryant Park.Alexandra and Roman Zaretsky entered the rink for the fir...
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Photo: Israel Railways Mass transit has always been one of the ways to save the Earth from global warming and toxic emissions, but an Israeli company is now making sure that the green footprint of railway commuters expands even farther.In the past few weeks an Innowattech, an Israeli green energy...
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Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, brings with it an impressive tradition of foods. The common ground for all of these holiday dishes is the generous use of oil. To make a (very) long story short, this custom is in memory of the miracle of the oil-jar. According to the tradition, Jew...
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Photo: Getty Images If anyone needed proof of Israel’s advancements on gay and lesbian legislation, the Attorney General of Israel, Menachem Mazuz, decided this week to allow lesbian couples to donate eggs removed during fertility treatments to their partners.Up until now, eggs were only al...
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Jacob Frenkel, who served as governor of the Bank of Israel from 1991-2000, has been tapped to be the new chairman of international business for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. During his two terms in Israel, he is widely credited with opening Israel’s financial markets while reducing inflation.Mr. F...
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Photo:Flickr “Welcome to my YouTube channel. I am so glad to speak to you and no less, to listen to you. I would like to share with you my dreams, my thoughts, and I would like also to hear your dreams and your thoughts”.No, this isn’t a quote by Beyonce or Eminem but rather the launc...
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Getty ImagesFrom E.T. to E.R., Steven Spielberg’s next project will take him to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital.In a new television series to premiere in 2011 on the Sundance Channel, Steven Spielberg, alongside Phil Rosenthal, most notable for his work on “Everybody Loves Ray...
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In an editorial featured in the December 6th edition of the New York Daily News, Joel Lion, consul for media affairs at the Consulate General in New York, argues for more collaboration and multilateralism in the peace process. In his piece, Lion explores the recent controversy surrounding the de...
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Getty ImagesThe Chanukah tradition of serving sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts, just got a whole lot more fun. In a brilliant move that would send Homer Simpson off the deep end, an Israeli company has decided to launch a line of vodka-infused doughnuts for the holiday. One doughnut filled with jel...
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Getty ImagesAn independent Palestinian state is quietly being built with Israeli assistance, according to Middle East analyst Tom Gross. In his latest editorial, he argues that the perception of the situation on the ground being all gloom and doom “couldn’t be further from the truth.&...
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Consulate General of Israel in New York
Freshkills Park Talks: Sustainability in Practice
December 7, 2009 6:30pm - 8:00pm
The Arsenal, 64th and 5th Avenue, 3rd floor, Manhattan. No RSVP required.
Eli Cohen, of Israel's Ayala Water & Ecology (http://www.ayala-aqua.com), designs naturally based solutions to help remove pollutants and contaminants from soil, air... and bodies of water and to rebuild ecosystems' capacity for self-sustainability. Mr. Cohen has consulted on stream rehabilitation projects, gray water reuse systems and numerous constructed wetlands to remove heavy metals, salts, hydrocarbons, and pathogens from agricultural, industrial and landfill sites. Key within this work has been his involvement with the remediation of the Hiriya landfill in Tel-Aviv, formerly Israel's largest landfill and soon to become part of Park Ariel Sharon, a 2,000-acre site which shares a number of parallels with Freshkills Park. Mr. Cohen will present a variety of innovative projects implemented in Israel and around the world, with emphasis on urban solutions.
No RSVP required.
Time:6:30PM Monday, December 7th
Location:The Arsenal, 830 5th Avenue, New York, NY
As part of a new effort to showcase Israel’s armed forces on an international level, the IDF is developing a unit designed exclusively for social networking. Experts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are arming themselves to the tweet to create an open and unfiltered look at some of the cool thing...
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Getty ImagesWhile the global economy has suffered a severe meltdown since 2008, Israel has been kept largely shielded. The result is that this year’s migration to Israel by North American Jews will be the highest since 1973, according to Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that supports immigr...
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Photo: Getty ImagesResearch has found that teachers and schools feel unprepared to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged students, most of whom are children of color. Many teachers perceive special education as the only resource available for helping students who are not succeeding in thei...
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Photo: Getty Images The following story is what the future should look like: Palestinians and Israelis working together to create a greener future.The town of Rawabi is set to be the model for future Palestinian middle class real estate. As the first town in the West Bank to be built from scratch...
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Israeli-style BBQ, aka Mangal, is an old personal favorite and remains at the top of Israel’s most popular food categories. The approach is very straight forward and simple, letting the freshness of the ingredients do the work.Any Israeli citizen, no matter his style, class or taste, holds a firm...
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In the past few weeks we’ve tried to offer you a FREE taste of Israeli culture. Since it is the season for giving, why stop.This weekend we’re giving you a chance to receive a pair of tickets to see Beit Habubot in concert. In order to win one of 5 pairs all you have to do is answer t...
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photo: Flickr This following post will probably make a lot of turkeys upset. According to international statistics, Israel holds the world record of turkey consumption per person. In average year, an Israeli will consume around 10 k.g of turkey meat, around 22 pounds. The statistics collected by ...
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Photo: GPOIn an effort to jumpstart negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday a 10-month settlement freeze in the West Bank. The decision was confirmed in a vote of 11-1 by his Security Cabinet composed of senior ministers and security officials.This decision, on Nove...
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Photo: Shahar Azran At 10 AM the truck doors opened and more than 400 people started making their way to receive their Thanksgiving gift- a 20 pound turkey. More than 500 of these holiday birds were donated today, by the Israeli Consulate in NY and world boxing champion, Yuri Foreman, to famili...
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Jerusalem Artichoke Soup The Jerusalem artichoke has nothing to do with the artichoke family or with the holy city of Jerusalem. How then did it earn its name?The Jerusalem artichoke has no relatives in the artichoke family but is actually a member of the sunflower family. “Girasole”, the Italian...
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In today’s world of unsafe investments, should you just hold on to your money? If you wait about 1,900 years, that shekel in your pocket could accrue quite the interest. A bronze coin minted during the Bar Kokhba Rebellion netted an astonishing $83,375 at a recent ancient and world coins auction....
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Photo: Getty Images While army life is usually synonymous with grease and dust, in Israel, the army is also known as the test lab for some of the world’s most high tech innovations. Paraphrasing on the prophet Isaiah: ” they shall beat their swords into stock options”.In the pas...
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Yes, we’re aware that “I’ll be back to curb carbon emissions” and “Terminating climate change” are a bit of a cliché, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has landed in Israel to do just that.In a meeting with the Israeli Minister of trade, Benjamin Ben- Eliezer, the...
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Israeli Consul General, Asaf Shariv congratulates Foreman on his win After 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Yuri Foreman, the 29 year old Israeli boxer, can now finally add the following title to his business card- World Champion.Yuri Foreman was born in Belarus and lives in Brooklyn, but after he was dec...
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Fresh peppers and eggplants“Memulaim” is the Hebrew word for stuffed vegetables. As a group the Memulaim have a place of honor in the melting pot of the Israeli cuisine. There are many versions of this beautiful dish, which immigrated to Israel from different origins: Balkans, Turkish...
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Reuters ImageDuring the week of November 10th, President Shimon Peres took the fight against Iran’s growing nuclear program across seas and continents to Brazil. A modest friend of Ahmadinejad’s regime, Brazil is scheduled to host the Iranian President in late November. As South America’s larges...
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Time:7:30PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:92nd Street Y
