David’s Heir

Posted on: May 21st, 2013

This young Jewish man from the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Yitzhar in Judea and Samaria, has been practicing swinging his slingshot, in the manner of the original Jewish sling shooter, the young David son of Jesse. I’ve always been bothered by images of young Arabs swinging their slingshots at IDF soldiers – it’s about time [...]

Reshit HaGez

Posted on: May 20th, 2013

Reishit HaGez is the giving to the Kohen the first cuttings of the fleece of sheep grown in the Land of Israel (based on Deut. 18:4: “You are to give them the first fruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep.”). Most Jews cannot [...]

Sheikh Jarrah Mon Amour

Posted on: May 19th, 2013

The women in the picture above are Israeli leftists, protesting a whole bunch of stuff, including the fact that Jews are living in areas outside the 1949 armistice “green line,” and the fact that the mostly Arab Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is considered part of Israel, rather than part of a Palestinian state that [...]

The Royal Family

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are walking to Church with their daughters Sasha and Malia, Sunday, March 31, 2013. - Hello, Mr. President, how does the country? - The country does fine. Trust in your government. That’s the message of this image. It’s the best possible message of any picture of the [...]

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A Tale of Two Crowds

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

On Wednesday, the holiday of Shavuot, a crowd of thousands attended the early Shachrit service by the Kotel. At the same time, smaller crowds of Arabs clashed with police in their commemoration of the declaration of the state of Israel, May 15, 1948, 65 years ago, which the call the “Nakba” (Arabic for catastrophe). Let’s [...]

Shavuot Kids from Central Casting

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

Kids from Kibbutz Gilad in northern Israel posing for a Shavuot a picture. If we went any cuter you’d start experiencing operating difficulties. Happy Shavuot, don’t stay up too late. If you do, may you have the best sleep-davening experience of a lifetime.

Why NYC Cats Prefer Netanya

Posted on: May 13th, 2013

Because you can get a better tan here. Lightening, a lovely NY born American Short Hair, is basking in the noon day sun. Since her arrival, in late 2011, she has put on weight, is keeping several crazy hours during which she runs around the apartment for no reason at all, terrorizing her brother, Sylvester, [...]

Women of the Mount

Posted on: May 12th, 2013

While Jewish women were demonstrating their ownership over the supporting wall of the western corner of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem, some Arab women were making a whole bunch of noise over the real thing. They chant slogans in solidarity with Al-Aqsa mosque following Friday prayers outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old [...]

Social Media Strategy

Posted on: May 10th, 2013

Mordechai Brener posted this image on Facebook, and it might be the most emphatic statement on the Arab-Israeli conflict in some time. The sign the soldier in the picture is holding up says: “If we had 10,000 likes we could respond to the stone throwing.” It could also be translated as saying: “As soon as [...]

Ethiopian Yahrzeit

Posted on: May 9th, 2013

Jerusalem Day, Iyar 28, is also a date observed by Ethiopian Israelis in memory of some 4,000 of their brethren who perished on the way to Israel, in Sudanese refugee camps, before Operation Moses (1984), and Operation Solomon (1991). The official government memorial on Mount Hertzl was established in 2007. Thousands participated in a special prayer [...]

Ammunition Hill

Posted on: May 8th, 2013

Ammunition Hill built by the British and seized by the Jordanian Arab Legion sin 1948, thus severing the link between the Israeli enclave on Mount Scopus (with Hadassah Hospital and the campus of the Hebrew University) and Jewish West Jerusalem. The hill was surrounded by dozens of bunkers connected by trenches, with fortified gun emplacements [...]

Drone Flight Training

Posted on: May 7th, 2013

Soldiers of the IDF Skylark I-LE unit spent a week earlier this year in the Negev Desert, learning how to operate the Skylark drone. The drone is lightweight and unnoticeable up above. It boasts 3 hours of flight-time while streaming a live video feed day and night. It has a range of 6 miles. Recovery [...]

Proof Positive

Posted on: May 6th, 2013

Here’s a picture of President Barack Obama and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico sharing a toast prior to a working dinner at Los Pinos, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2, 2013. The Qur’an prohibits alcoholic beverages in several separate verses. But President Obama is clearly drinking wine—looks like Chardonnay. He couldn’t possibly be Muslim! He [...]

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One on One

Posted on: May 5th, 2013

A Jewish villager (in the tzitzis) facing a stone hurling Arab outside Ofra, near the village of Deir Jarir, Friday, May 3, 2013. As the IDF has been reluctant to arrest and punish Arabs who have been routinely terrorizing Jewish motorists with rocks and firebombs—as well as a stabbing murder a week ago—Jewish civilians have [...]

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Sunset Basketball

Posted on: May 2nd, 2013

Found it on Facebook. No idea who’s credit it is. Hypnotic.

Caption Me, Please

Posted on: May 1st, 2013

This man was spotted walking in the middle of the street in Jerusalem on April 29, 2013, carrying an office chair on his back I was thinking: The “Office without Walls” בםמבקפא is finally here My other chair is a Tomassini Knesset MKs never give up their seats Go ahead, enter your suggestions in the [...]

Impossible Feat

Posted on: April 30th, 2013

Imagine some unknown college team beating the Lakers in a game that counts. That’s how it felt last Sunday, when Hapoel Eilat, who has just gained entry into Israel’s top basketball league, defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 89-82 in overtime. Since I was a child, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Maccabi Tel Aviv was a team apart, [...]

Standup Politics

Posted on: April 29th, 2013

This is the new U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, visiting troops at an undisclosed location in Southeast Asia, April 25, 2013. I’m looking at him, standing with the mike in his hand, loose, erudite, comfortable inside his skin, and I’m thinking—politicians didn’t used to look like this. I mean, put an exposed brick wall behind [...]

Meron Joy

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

A dad and his kid performing tricks in honor of Lag Baomer, on Mt. Meron. I have to say, the kid has an exceptional sense of balance. especially since it seems pretty obvious that Dad has had a few.

The Silbersteins’ Picnic

Posted on: April 26th, 2013

This is the Silberstein family picnicking at Turtle Lake, in the summer of 1918. I wonder how long they had to sit like that, with a frozen smile, on the family Model T. But then they got to run down the slope to the lake and splash in the cool water. I hope Mr. Silberstein [...]