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• If It Looks Like a Duck, If It Sounds Like a Duck, It is Ketchup

  About a year ago Osem successfully got Heinz ketchup declared in Israel as "tomato dressing" rather than ketchup, due to some ancient regulation of how much... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• If Only We Could All Get Our Taxes Covered by the Government

  If only. If only. Minister of Sport (and Culture) Miri Regev decided that the honor brought to Israel by our Olympians has been so great that they must be justl... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• the Seller of the Illness Died

  Baruch Dayan HaEmes. Sadly, and it is being reported much sooner than expected, the fellow who recently sold his illness to a non-Jew for 600nis has passed... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Orthodox Jewish All Star, The Honorable Norman Eisen - US Ambassador (video)

  

  President Obama appointed Norm Eisen to serve as US Ambassador in the very same country where his mother's family was decimated in the Holocaust."The house in... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Kitchens Are Not Just For Cooking (video)

  

  chazzanut from an unexpected source... kol isha warning: ------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of readers with your ad by... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Pashkevil of the Day

  

  I stopped posting interesting pashkevils a while back, largely because I stopped reading them, along with the local Bet Shemesh newspapers. And, I have to admit... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interesting Psak: 555,555nis Against Ayin Hara is Only Symbolic

  A recent divorce in Jerusalem has brought about an interesting psak regarding the payment of the money promised in the ketuba. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Is Avi Dichter Planning to Run Against Bibi for Head of Likud and PM? (video)

  

  interesting thought.. I dont see him as being popular enough, but let's see where this goes... ------------------------------------------------------ Reach... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Facebook Status of the Day

  Translation: The Admor Rav Levi Yitzchak Horowitz zt"l put forth great effort to help childless couples with funding for various medical treatments. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Chassidish Yungerman Deals With Neturei Karta In Manhattan (video)

  

  kol hakavod to them for defending Israel like that. though it does make me a bit uncomfortable to have Jews fighting with each other in public in front of... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "Old Bet Shemesh" Feeling Threatened by Sale of Building to Extremist Haredi...

  The news broke a few days ago that the old Bezeq  building in "old Bet Shemesh", very close to the Neimi shopping mall, was sold to an "extremist Haredi yeshiva... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Proposed Law: Raising the Minimum Threshold Again

  

  The Likud is putting together a new plan to reform the elections, presumably for their benefit. The proposal they are preparing, according to Maariv Online, is... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Synagogues of California (video)

  

  ------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• PM Netanyahu: Israel Cares More About Palestinians Than Their Own Leaders Do...

  

  I find this a bit patronizing, even though it is true... interesting to note the books on the shelves behind the PM...... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Meir Kay's DJ Dance Party on an Elevator (video)

  

  Riding an elevator can be an awkward experience so we decided to set up throw a Dj Dance party in one and spread the good vibes. Thank you to Zedge for making... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Can Kashrut Agencies Be Relied Upon?

  A recent Kosharot article has spurred an interesting discussion. Kipa refers to a Kosharot article in which Rav Yitzchak Dvir posited that people cannot rely... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• First They Came for the Cornflakes

  To paraphrase Martin Niemöller First they came for the cornflakes, and I did not speak out, for I don't eat cornflakes. Then they came for the tehina, and I... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Solving the Naar Nosher Problem in Elad

  The city of Elad has decided, upon instructions from the local rabbonim, to fight against the phenomena of "naar nosher" - kids on the streets, dropouts,... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Facebook Status of the Day

  Translation: there is nothing like the nation of Israel.. even Jews selling shrimps don't forget to write BS"d (en: besiyata dishmaya - with the help of... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Israeli Stewardess Confessions About Charedi Passengers (video)

  

  there is a series of videos called (in Hebrew) Stewardesses confessions" in which stewardesses talk about passengers and incidents they've experienced. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY