E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 9, 2009, 12:53 pm
During an overnight raid on Tuesday last week, the Israeli Navy, about 100 nautical miles off the coast west of Israel and near Cyprus, seized hundreds of tons of weaponry on a ship sailing with an An...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 9, 2009, 9:40 am
Earlier last week, Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union who had served prison time for spying for the KGB was shot to death while driving in a Mercedes in downtown M...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 9, 2009, 7:36 am
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to not run for re-election in January. The threat, says...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 4, 2009, 11:06 am
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has offered Israel half praise and half criticism on their plans for a semi-freeze of settlement expansion. On Monday she said that the proposed plan “falls...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 4, 2009, 10:52 am
Mazal Tov to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It has been ranked among the world’s top 100 institutes of higher education, out of a complete list of 500. The annual ranking by the Centre for ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 4, 2009, 10:04 am
The Adhan is the Muslim call to prayer. Five times a day it gets broadcast from the loudspeaker of mosques. In Jewish areas of East Jerusalem, residents have complained that the volume of the Adhan ha...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 1, 2009, 8:47 am
This last Thursday morning at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue, in North Hollywood, a gunman opened fire and shot two people in the legs. The shooting happened at about 6:20 am, around the...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Nov 1, 2009, 4:26 am
Last August saw the release of 4Wall LLC’s Jewish Internet Metric Study. It is a project aimed towards helping the Jewish community understand the “hurdles and opportunities” present...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 29, 2009, 6:11 pm
“When it comes to U.S. military résumés, Silicon Valley is illiterate. It’s a shame. What a waste of the kick-ass leadership talent coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan.” JON MEDVED Altho...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 28, 2009, 12:00 pm
Thursday marked the 14 year anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Today in the Jerusalem Post was a story about a group of famous Israeli politicians who were strongly opposed to Rabin...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 28, 2009, 11:06 am
Sunday was a day of chaos in Jerusalem’s old-city – which houses the holiest sites for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Organized Palestinian protestors stormed the area which houses the a...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 28, 2009, 9:05 am
A new week, soon a new month and a new year, and the world still anxiously speculates on whether or not Israel will attack Iran; and firstly whether Iran will finally begin to come around to the West&...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 27, 2009, 4:20 pm
Israeli security and intelligence got a bit of a wake-up call today, October 27, when an Indian man, living in New York, and his accomplice were charged with providing guns and other weapons to Hezbol...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 26, 2009, 7:31 am
Former Maccabi Tel Aviv manager Moni Fanan is not unique in his tragic suicide. The last year, characterized by the current recession, has been responsible for countless other suicides and tragic inc...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 25, 2009, 7:07 am
The ex-manager and vice chairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, Moni Fanan was found hanging in his North Tel Aviv apartment Tuesday, in an obvious suicide. Those who knew Fanan were aware ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 23, 2009, 11:15 am
Mosh Ben Ari is an amazing singer. This is from his latest album, its called One Perfect Memory (Zikaron Ehad Mushlam). Shabbat Shalom Related posts Yalla Boy by Michael Greilsammer (0) A Pra...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 22, 2009, 11:10 am
My wedding has finally made it to the news. No, I don’t think the state of Israel particularly cares whether I, personally, got married or not, but here’s what I mean. When I started askin...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 21, 2009, 6:37 am
You know when you surf the Web using your trusty Web 2.0 browser, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, or whatever it is that you use; and you navigate your way around, by typing in the HTML address ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 20, 2009, 11:35 am
Head of the UN fact finding Mission on Operation Cast Lead, Richard Goldstone, released in the Jerusalem Post an op-ed article, in defense of his, mainly Israeli and American criticizers. The article ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 20, 2009, 3:49 am
This is something you don’t see everyday. This is the testimony of Col. Richard Kemp. He disagrees with Goldstone Report that claims that IDF committed war crimes in Operation Cast Lead. His ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 19, 2009, 5:56 am
On Sunday a suicide bombing targeted the Iranian National Guard and killed 26 people. The deputy commander of the Guards’ ground force, General Noor Ali Shooshtari, and the Guards’ chief p...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 19, 2009, 5:19 am
It’s now gone farther than Turkey banning Israel from a joint military exercise with the US and other EU countries, or Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan ripping Shimon Peres in public at Davos, or ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 19, 2009, 4:44 am
What’s a million shekels off the public’s back when you’re talking about swanky French hotels that cost 2,500 Euro a night for six rooms…two of which nobody actually stayed in…fo...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 18, 2009, 10:27 am
Rumor’s a ‘brewin! Now this sounds all cloak-and-dagger and such. Begin playing Mission Impossible Theme now. It indeed looks and seems so, and if so, then talk about really good timing on...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 18, 2009, 6:59 am
I attended a political event a few months ago where the speaker stated emphatically, and what may be construed as presumptuously, that if anybody wants to make a difference in Israel politically, ther...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 15, 2009, 12:30 pm
Here’s the quick scoop. Cab driver Dudu Badri picked up a guy in Beit Shemesh, who then forced him at knife point to drive to a Palestinian village. He was then beaten by three men who stole his...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 14, 2009, 8:26 am
The place of Civil Unions in Israel is being analyzed in Knesset, as preliminary versions of final legislation bills are being looked over. Knesset Law Committee chairman David Rotem, presented a bil...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 13, 2009, 11:28 am
Nishmat is a center for women’s learning and halachic instruction. Not that Torah learning institutions for women are all that rare, but this one sponsors a program that issues certification for...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 10, 2009, 10:42 am
Here are some of the edicts that Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who will turn 100 this coming April, has made lately. The internet is forbidden, Shabbat elevators are forbidden, women must acquiesce to ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 9, 2009, 10:34 am
About to be indicted for money laundering and bribery, Avigdor Lieberman has finally made a headline once again. Believed to be keeping a low profile, spending time in Africa while Barak and Bibi talk...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 8, 2009, 8:16 am
Something fishy’s going on in the Department of Defense. An ABC news report yesterday seemed to suggest that America is accelerating the production of the MOP. This is not just any MOP. This i...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 7, 2009, 8:14 am
We’re still on the ball, guys! Israeli scientist Ada Yonath has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She works at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, named after Israel’s first president Chaim...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 5, 2009, 8:03 am
Last month, September 9th, saw a much hyped, but much deflated Likud rally with a very confused message about whether Netanyahu was being strengthened or rebelled against by attendees of the rally. No...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 4, 2009, 8:24 am
If you read this blog religiously, or even secularly but often, then you may have noticed that I don’t cover the Gilad Shalit issue all that often. I don’t give updates, and I generally av...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Oct 3, 2009, 9:17 am
This man, Dr. Alon Monsonego of Ben Gurion University, could be the face put on a real, workable Alzheimer’s vaccine. Alzheimer’s being one of the scariest, most devastating mental disease...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 30, 2009, 11:03 am
It seems that Judge Richard Goldstone – the selfsame jurist in charge of the Goldstone Report accusing the IDF of “war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity” in Gaza this past wint...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 29, 2009, 4:29 pm
It seems our Defense Minister may find himself in a bit of a legal pickle for his alleged “war crimes” committed in Gaza in December/January when he decided enough was enough and Hamas sho...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 29, 2009, 10:37 am
Back when Barack Obama was just a junior Senator from Illinois and running for president, much of the Jewish community was up in arms about the various friends and advisers surrounding the young presi...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 26, 2009, 10:10 am
A few days ago we saw the much anticipated tripartite meeting between Mahmoud Abbas, PM Netanyahu, and President Obama, in that usual stance where Israeli and Palestinian leader are clasping hands and...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 25, 2009, 2:10 pm
This was in Chicago a little while ago and I thought it was a nice Shana Tova greeting (don’t ask me why…) SO, Shana Tova and Gmar Hatima Tova! Related posts Shana Tova and Gmar Chat...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 25, 2009, 11:52 am
According to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel…surprisingly yes. A somewhat shockingly unanimous decision was made 2 days ago by the religious government body that brainstem death constitutes death acco...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 24, 2009, 11:33 am
Sounds like a lot to cover in one post, but believe it or not, these topics are all related. Here’s how. China, a huge, repressive, polluting, morally repugnant regime is known to have many an ...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 24, 2009, 9:23 am
There are some stories that just make you go wide-eyed, and pretty much stay that way for weeks. The shock never really goes away, and every time you think about it, you are somewhere between cringing...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 18, 2009, 5:41 pm
What do you do when your daughter is trapped in Tulkarm with an abusive Arab husband and the Palestinian Authority won’t do anything about it, much less the Israeli Army who won’t risk a d...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 18, 2009, 4:32 pm
I really wonder what drives these people. Not complaining. It’s just oddly touching in a strange way. Cornerstone Choir and Orchestra Sing the Mayim Medley of song with the Cornerstone CUFI sin...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 15, 2009, 5:16 pm
I though this to be a small, sparsely covered yet important story worth some space. According to a report by IsraelNationalNews, a group of Yeshiva students at a high school in the town of M’ale...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 14, 2009, 9:30 pm
With Iran recently coming out with the completely ludicrous statement that they would agree to “a world without any nuclear weapons” which would ideally, in their view, leave them with the...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 13, 2009, 9:28 pm
This’ll be a tough one to swallow. As soon as I finished reading the report on Haaretz, I started laughing. Here’s why. The report began with a blanket statement that negotiations over a P...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 9, 2009, 9:41 am
High Holiday season is always a stressful time for Rabbis, but the word “stressful” usually describes how they feel about their sermons, the High Holiday appeal, the synagogue’s fina...
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E B. posted an article on OneJerusalem.com - Sep 8, 2009, 10:55 am
This is a translation from the front page article in today’s Ma’ariv newspaper. Apparently, Netanyahu is afraid of an internal coup within his own party, and he’s changing the rules ...
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