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isRealli: All the Way from Jerusalem: Artichoke
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
The Jerusalem artichoke has nothing to do with the artichoke family or with the holy city of Jerusalem. How then did it earn its name?
The Jerusalem artichoke has no relatives in the artichoke family but is actually a memb...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 1:31pm PT (387 words)
 
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isRealli: Take a Penny, but Don’t Leave This One Behind
In today’s world of unsafe investments, should you just hold on to your money? If you wait about 1,900 years, that shekel in your pocket could accrue quite the interest. A bronze coin minted during the Bar Kokhba Rebellion netted an astonishing $83,375...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:31pm PT (237 words)
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isRealli: Newsweek Explores Israel’s High-Tech Boot Camp
Photo: Getty Images
While army life is usually synonymous with grease and dust, in Israel, the army is also known as the test lab for some of the world’s most high tech innovations. Paraphrasing on the prophet Isaiah: ” they shall beat their ...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 2:31pm PT (211 words)
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isRealli: Schwarzenegger in Israel to Terminate Greenhouse Gasses
Yes, we’re aware that “I’ll be back to curb carbon emissions” and “Terminating climate change” are a bit of a cliché, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has landed in Israel to do just that.
In a meeting with the Israeli ...
Dateline: 2009-11-17 2:16pm PT (208 words)
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isRealli: Yuri Foreman- Rabbi to be Wins World Boxing Championship
Israeli Consul General, Asaf Shariv congratulates Foreman on his win
After 12 rounds in Las Vegas, Yuri Foreman, the 29 year old Israeli boxer, can now finally add the following title to his business card- World Champion.
Yuri Foreman was born in Belaru...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 1:16pm PT (228 words)
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isRealli: “Memulaim”: a combination of simplicity and virtuosity
Fresh peppers and eggplants
“Memulaim” is the Hebrew word for stuffed vegetables. As a group the Memulaim have a place of honor in the melting pot of the Israeli cuisine. There are many versions of this beautiful dish, which immigrated to Isra...
Dateline: 2009-11-13 9:31am PT (628 words)
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isRealli: Sound of Silence: Touching Documentary Screens this Weekend in NYC
To most of us, deafness is a disability. But to the Bedouin people of El- Sayed in the south of Israel, it’s a culture.
More than 200 years of inbreeding have made El-Sayed the village with the largest population of deaf people in the world.
Today,...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 3:46pm PT (149 words)
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isRealli: Israeli Scientists Take a Whiff of our Brains
Photo: Getty Images
Why is it that mom’s laundry always smells better? What is it in perfume that reminds us of a pleasant, distant memory? These are just some of the questions scientists at the Weizmann Institute’s “smell lab” in...
Dateline: 2009-11-10 4:31pm PT (497 words)
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isRealli: Israel:Start Up Nation- Meet the Author Tonight in NY
What is it the factor that has made Israel one of the world’s largest incubators of technology? How did Israeli companies make it to the 2nd place on the NASDAQ traded companies? and what can the U.S economy learn from it all?
The answers to these ...
Dateline: 2009-11-09 11:01am PT (174 words)
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isRealli: The Winners of the Idan Raichel Quiz
Photo: Wikimedia
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the Idan Raichel Quiz! We’d like to thank all the respondents who took part in the questionnaire, as well as the hundreds who have taken an interest in the upcoming show. And the winn...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 1:16pm PT (76 words)
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isRealli: Israel’s Newest Export is… the Hippo?
Photo: Flickr
While every new sibling to a family is usually a blessing, the staff of Ramat Gan Safari have lately realized that sometimes kids can be a little bit of a hassle. This is especially true when your baby weighs around 85 pounds and consumes u...
Dateline: 2009-11-05 4:01pm PT (175 words)
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isRealli: Israeli Dancer Awarded for Revolutionizing International Dance
Photo: Gadi Dagon
Israeli dancer and choreographer, Ohad Naharin, has been awarded the 2009 Dance magazine award, honoring the greatest talents in the dance world.
Fifty-seven-year-old Naharin started his career as a dancer in Israel, but soon realized t...
Dateline: 2009-11-04 2:01pm PT (177 words)
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isRealli: U.S.-Israeli Team Earns Grant to Research Genetics of Schizophrenia
Illustration: Getty Images
The American National Institute of Health has awarded a $2.1 million dollar grant to researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for future research into the ...
Dateline: 2009-11-03 10:01am PT (328 words)
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isRealli: Etgar Keret and Ira Glass at the NY Public Library
Photo: Israeli Consulate NY
The New York Public Library has had its share of interesting talks with authors, but we can safely say that none of them were as funny as the meeting between This American Life host, Ira Glass, and Israeli author Etgar Keret.
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Dateline: 2009-10-30 1:01pm PT (143 words)
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isRealli: The First Hybrid Town in Israel
Just park and go
Petah Tikva went down in Israel’s history as the first village in Israel, the place were scholars turned into farmers. Today, Petah Tikva is poised to be the first city in Israel to allow free parking for hybrid cars.
This week the...
Dateline: 2009-10-28 12:31pm PT (283 words)
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