Year: 2014

The Central Bus Station: Reinventing Tel Aviv’s white elephant

Next Station, a new art and design project, seeks to reconceptualize the city’s most sinister urban space using art, agriculture, and micro-ecology.

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Weekend Soundtrack – Kol Cambridge

It’s time to catch up with all the big tunes that were released while we were exploring the 4th dimension!

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Henry Kissinger’s “peace later”

In his acceptance speech for a recent award, Henry Kissinger said that Jews and Palestinians can’t settle their problems while the Mid-East is in disarray.

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Jews and Arabs driven apart in ‘The Swimming Race’ – Israel in Translation

Marcela Sulak introduces us to Benjamin Tammuz’s short story ‘The Swimming Race,’ which appears in the anthology ’50 Stories from Israel.’

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Finding a spiritual home in Israel – Journeys

Thomas Hubl is a contemporary spiritual teacher: Tune in to hear everything you wanted to know about spiritual practice but were afraid to ask.

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Squirmin’ on the Mount

The question of whether Jews should be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount has reentered public discourse since the shooting of Rabbi Yehuda Glick.

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Squirmin’ on the Mount – The Promised Podcast‏

Allison, Noah, and Miriam Herschlag discuss Jews praying on Temple Mount, Henry Kissinger’s latest comments on Mid East peace, and the crumbling coalition.

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Addicted to Acronyms

We love using ראשי תיבות (acronyms) in Hebrew. Sometimes the transformation from word to acronym is so extreme that some words even end up changing their gender!

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The guy fighting to export Israeli music – Journeys

“My vision is to do what Bjork did for Iceland or what Abba did for Sweden,” says Jeremy Hulsh, the founder and managing director of Israel’s Oleh! Records.

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Shazam a…painting?

Yoram Ben Zvi, CEO of Artbit App tells us how leading museums, like New York’s MOMA, are sharing their masterpieces and their databases with him.

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