Section: Society Impact
Fighting the Brain-Drain
Posted on 25 September 2008
‘‘People talk about sending low-grade services offshore to India...I decided to offshore an entire law office.”
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Zalman Shoval: Balancing Business and Politics (part I)
Posted on 24 September 2008
The founder of Bank of Jerusalem discusses what led him to professional greatness and the impact of the current economic crisis.
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Spinning Out of Control
Posted on 09 September 2008
A day in a unique addiction-treatment center for the Jewish community.
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Dreams vs. Reality: How do we view Aliyah?
Posted on 26 August 2008
When it comes to Aliyah are we being delusional? Can we cope with reality?
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The Eicha Revolution
Posted on 25 August 2008
Walk into a wedding or a Bar Mitzvah— everyone is eating, dancing, and singing. Who would think that loneliness is even possible in this room?
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Olim in Israel’s Job Market: Do We Stand a Chance?
Posted on 25 August 2008
Israeli companies have been feeling the economic stress that is currently reverberating around the world.
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Tikva Market: An Investment in Chesed
Posted on 07 August 2008
You can find a bottle of Coke for half a Shekel, but you don't really want to end up shopping here.
Times get hard. Families suffer. Some families don’t even have enough money for groceries. Actually, that’s an understatement. There are thousands of families in Jerusalem alone who cannot afford groceries. But that’s not the ...
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The Negev: Moving Towards the Future
Posted on 07 August 2008
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGEV IS OUR PRESENT
Grassroots leaders and the business executives work together to bring Zionism into the 21st Century
When Mark Twain visited Palestine in 1867, he made sure to visit the Negev, but was hardly impressed. Following his visit, he wrote The Innocents Abroad and referred to the ...Comments (0)
Ketzev Hakokus
Posted on 07 August 2008
"COCONUT MAN" BRINGS FUN WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS TO ISRAEL
Like every week in Raanana, Boaz walks into the kindergarten dressed like pre-historic man and takes out a large drum from his bag. He sits on the floor of the gan and begins to bang the drum. Creating a contagious rhythm, the children circle around ...
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Ambassador Dore Gold
Posted on 07 August 2008
In today’s political climate, discourse amongst international figureheads spreads a virulent criticism over Israel’s policies. As Israel stands as a constant target of aggression from neighboring Arab countries, international bodies (namely the United Nations) continue to fault Israel with issues that run the gamut of the socio-political spectrum. Ambassador Dore Gold, however, uses harsher ...
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Profile of a Dissident: Natan Sharansky
Posted on 06 August 2008
When asked what Jerusalem means to him, Natan Sharansky gives quite the atypical response: Leshana haba’a b’Yerushalayim ! The phrase has him recall his days when he was on trial in Soviet Russia. The KGB interrogated him incessantly for committing “treason,” “espionage” and other criminal activities. All of these accusations were in the form ...
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Job Katif: Restoring Lives, One Job at a Time
Posted on 06 August 2008
The summer of 2005 shook the entire country. Many of those actively against the Disengagement traveled down to Gush Katif to help the residents, while others attempted to physically prevent the evacuation. Casts of international reporters camped out in the area for weeks, while the media broadcasted the devastating evacuation of thousands of Israeli ...
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An Afternoon With Moshe Feiglin
Posted on 30 July 2008
The Shiur TIMES staff had the honor and privilege to meet with Mr. Moshe Feiglin. As many of our readers know, Mr. Feiglin has climbed the ladder within Israeli politics. Along with Mr. Shmuel Sackett, Mr. Feiglin began the “Zo Artzeinu” movement in the mid ‘90’s staging non-violent civil disobedience protests and empowering those ...
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Legacy Reclaimed
Posted on 30 July 2008
As the Nazi reign of terror began to close in on the Jews of Poland, Mr. Taub, a successful textile manufacturer, gathered some of his family’s valuables and hid them in a false wall within his retail outlet. Soon afterwards, the Taub family was transferred to the Krakow ghetto. By the end of the ...
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Getting Your Kids to Speak English
Posted on 29 July 2008
What do Ariel Sharon’s neurosurgeon, last year’s Israeli Nobel Prize winner and my seven-year-old daughter have in common? They all speak English, but only one of them was born in Israel, and she’s just in the first grade.
Learning how to speak English may seem natural to the English-speaking parent of an Israeli child, but ...
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Captives in Their Own Land
Posted on 29 July 2008
As Sara prepared to jump out of the third- floor window, she recalled there was a phrase that Jews were meant to say when sacrificing their lives. Not knowing when her father and brothers were intending to come and kill her, she had no time to spare. “Baruch atah Hashem Elokenu Melech Haolam Shehakol ...
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Zichron Menachem: A Reason to Live
Posted on 24 July 2008
Menachem Ehrental was 15 years old when he died. After a 14-year battle against the deadly cancer in his body, Menachem had no more strength to fight. “I can’t bother. I don’t have the energy anymore,” he told his father shortly before going to sleep for the final time. The Ehrental family was devastated ...
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Ain’t Goin’ to Play on Saturday
Posted on 23 July 2008
Israel’s shomer Shabbat pro baseball league opens June 24
Dovid Green has been playing baseball most of his life—which amounts to about 27 years. He started Little League at the age of eight, then went on to play for Maimonidies High School in Boston and Yeshiva University.
“I dreamed about playing in the Majors,” he recalls. ...
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Keeping the Doors Open at Carmei Ha’Ir
Posted on 23 July 2008
A Peek Inside
My sister is a tour guide. She is excited about many places in Israel, but the first place she first wanted us to see when we had just arrived in the country, was Yerushalyim's Carmei Ha'Ir.
Located at 72 Agrippas, in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market, Carmei Ha’Ir looks like just another fancy restaurant. ...
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Treasures From Cairo
Posted on 22 July 2008
The Cairo Genizah has captured the imagination of scholars and laymen around the world. A repository of Hebrew language documents spanning a period of over one thousand years, it is a window into ages past, and a doorway to secrets nearly lost.
In 1896, two learned English ladies traveling in Egypt purchased some fragments of ...
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