Our forefathers were Adam and Eve, not apes
Haartez asked political party leaders what they think about religion & science. While many supported science, Darwin wasn’t as popular as we thought.
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Sporting mensches: Getting Israeli Paralympics back on track
You probably had no idea that Israel hosted the Paralympic Games in 1968, or that Israel’s athletes have had more success at the Paralympics than the Olympics.
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Sports news: Turning up the heat
Tel Aviv marathon suffers from heat exhaustion; why owning an Israeli premier league soccer club can be deadly; and an underwater sport you’ve never heard of.
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Who owns the media in Israel?
Prof. Amit Schejter of Ben-Gurion University recently completed a study about electronic media concentration in Israel between 1984-2013.
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Important breaking news about Bissli
Israeli digital newspapers increasingly mix disguised ads – ‘Advertorials’ – among the legitimate and unpaid content.
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Collect Jews: Win valuable prizes!
Judy Maltz’s essay in this week’s Haaretz describes the ingathering to Israel of a small and exotic sect of “lost Jews” in India called the ‘Bnei Menashe.’
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Without shadows, the desert flames – Israel in Translation
Poet Avraham Sutzkever was born in 1913 in today’s Belarus. The New York Times called him “The Greatest Poet of the Holocaust.”
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Who gives a f*ck about a returned bottle?
We discuss the State Comptroller’s report, which details the profound profligacies and petty corruptions of the first family.
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Shakespeare vs. Shlonski: Does the Anglo vote matter?
Why are English speakers becoming the darlings of the political class? Is there really an “Anglo-Saxon” vote that carries any weight in Israel?
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