Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

BY AMOS Sasson Somekh (see post below ) also gave me the definitive etymology for the popular fast-food dish known as "sabih" in I...

BY AMOS Earlier today, Professor Emeritus Sasson Somekh (b. 1933) delivered the first of three lectures held under the auspices of the a...

BY CARMIA A woman on the bus watches a group of Haredim in the Haifa neighbourhood of Hadar perform the custom of bi'ur hametz , or burn...

BY CARMIA There is a lot of talk in the media about the possibility of another intifada, sparked by recent events in Jerusalem. On a trip to...

BY AMOS If the recent unrest in Jerusalem spirals out of control, the international news media will surely rush to find some symbolic spark...

BY CARMIA I came across this store on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. The sign on the right-hand sign reads, "Keep and remember the Sabbath...

BY CARMIA The Second Intifida, which began in 2000, has long fizzled out but the memorials remain. Today is the seven-year anniversary of a...

BY AMOS From Maureen Dowd's latest op-ed in the New York Times : "The religious institutions in Israel are stymieing every effort a...

BY AMOS View of the Post Office and McDonald's in Hadar at Herzl and Nevi'im Streets (Photo: Wikimedia Commons ) Azad , a restaurant...

BY AMOS Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Dubai's police chief, Lt.-Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has been indefatigably reporting his new disc...

BY AMOS Photo : Prof. Yehuda Shenhav Academics in the heavily politicized social sciences and humanities are constantly staking out new fiel...

BY CARMIA It's not every day in Haifa that I run into someone wearing both a keffiyeh and an IDF hat, so I had to take a picture. When ...

BY CARMIA Some time ago, a video clip was circulating which speculated on the allegedly Jewish origins of Palestinians, including Bedouin t...

Ynet reports that Zara has reduced the number of Christmas trees in its display windows in Israel and added Hanukkah candlesticks, apparen...