What’s In a Name?
By Gabriel Weinstein
For hundreds of years, Ethiopian Jews dreamed of strolling through Jerusalem’s supposed golden streets and celebrating the Sigd festival in its hills. By...
The Hidden Israel
By Symi Rom-Rymer
A chubby young African boy dressed head-to-toe in an Israeli police officer’s uniform looks defiantly into the camera. A teenage girl in a...
Sky-Scraping Prices in Tel Aviv
by Merav Levkowitz
HGTV recently aired the Israel episode of House Hunters International, where two Chicago sisters with a $500,000 budget searched for an apartment in Tel...
De-constructing a City of Queer Borders
By Lily Hoffman Simon
If you were to ask someone to picture the queer community in Israel, it is a fair bet to say that they would...
Textbook Tussle
By Symi Rom-Rymer
"No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe," categorically stated Education...
When we talk about the Middle East
By Symi Rom-Rymer
I think Thomas Friedman can read my mind. Just as I sat down to write this blog post, I came across a new...
Germany and Poland Revisited
By Symi Rom-Rymer
When Helen Thomas declared recently that Jews have no place in Israel and should go home to Germany and Poland, she unleashed a...
New Angles/Old Topics
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The recent flotilla fiasco has unleashed a torrent of articles about Jews, Israel, Zionism, and any semi-related topic. Buried beneath the information overload,...
TLV→IST: Flying Solo
By Zoe Fox
Last Monday, the Israeli Navy stopped a so-called “Freedom Flotilla” from breaking the Gaza blockade in a deadly encounter. Four days...
I Love A Parade
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Living in a large, multi-cultural city like New York, you get used to the ethnic parades that come through town. In early fall,...
Breaking the Silence
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Three thin little black books have been creating a firestorm of controversy in Israel recently. No, they have nothing to do sex scandals. ...
Paris Hilton says "shalom" to the shekel
By Michelle Albert and Talia Ran
In a bizarre twist that defies all sense, shiksa goddess Paris Hilton is mugging for an ad for the Israeli...