Ex-Lion Tamer guiratist Zoe Polanski on playing in the US – It’s fun and a good place to be.The CMJ Music Marathon – the American independent rock music annual showcase in New York City – is going to have an …
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Sunday in the park – with your laptop
Hudson River Park patrons will be able to enjoy wireless internet thanks to the Israeli technology of InspiAir.New Yorkers living in downtown Manhattan no longer need to take their laptop computers to Starbucks when they are looking for easy Internet …
Israeli phys ed teacher uses movement to break down barriers
Children and adults alike enjoy Levi Bar Gil’s creative dance techniquesAt an early age, Levi Bar-Gil discovered that being light on his feet was a great way to stay out of schoolyard fights. Today, the Israeli physical education teacher and …
Shedding my American skin
Here I was, sitting on an Israeli’s couch, sharing my personal thoughts on everything.The other day, as I stood outside my newly acquired Jerusalem apartment, trying to figure out exactly how one opens the door, another resident of the building …
Israeli-American teen goes court to court
Marisa Gobuty: I just fell in love with Israel. It is the best place to grow up. It was fun, I loved it, and the basketball was great.At age 9, Marisa Gobuty became a hero on her youth basketball team …
Israeli ‘soul’ to debut at New York’s Apollo Theater
Some of the singers in the Idan Raichel Project. Says Raichel, ‘I’m not black, yet the Ethiopians in the project and I work together. We succeed through music in intercommunication.’It will be a scene that the world famous Apollo Theater …
Israel leads world in stem cell research papers per capita
Israel’s prominence in stem cell research has been confirmed by a German study, conducted by the Central Library of the Research Center Julich, which shows that it is the leading publisher of stem cell research per capita in the world.According …