Science Is your Friend

Posted on: June 19th, 2013

The answer is 45. The name of the source page on Facebook cannot be repeated on this website, but it involves science and reproduction. A shoutout to Charlie Hall, for the share.

Carrying a Wounded Friend

Posted on: June 18th, 2013

The trick to lifting up a buddy who’s been injured is to grab him from the middle. If you manage to divide his weight equally on either side of your shoulder, you should be able to schlep him a good distance without feeling much pain. The downside is – he’s probably going to feel a [...]

Emperors Strolling

Posted on: June 17th, 2013

Here’s President Barack Obama walking with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China on the grounds of the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Calif., June 8, 2013. Do they really discuss the fate of the world? We’ll never know (not before they each sell the rights to their memoirs to Simon [...]

Checking for Lions

Posted on: June 16th, 2013

Yossef Stauber’s job is to guard the lions’ section at the Ramat Gan Safari Park just outside Tel Aviv. He stays in his observation tower all day, opening and closing the gates for visitors in their cars. The rest of the time, between cars, he sits and learns. Who says Haredim are not integrated into [...]

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Maccabi Haifa Beats Maccabi Tel-Aviv in State Championship

Posted on: June 14th, 2013

Maccabi Haifa is the new Israeli Basketball State Champion for the 2012-13 season. They beat Maccabi Tel Aviv, which is kind of the Yankees of Israeli basketball, except with a much better record. They won the playoff final 86-79, and took the title for the first time in its history. This is the third time [...]

The Yankees Are Losing

Posted on: June 13th, 2013

This is Oakland’s Josh Donaldson, scoring on a wild pitch by Yankee CC Sabathia Tuesday night, on the West Coast. Sabathia went 6 really bad innings and was ejected. Say it ain’t so, CC. Over the past few years, the hefty, reliable Sabathia has been one of the main supporting beams of the team, and [...]

Monkey and Friend

Posted on: June 12th, 2013

This young girl is looking through the showcase window of the baboon cage in the Biblical zoo in Jerusalem. Except the photographer shot the image from inside, confusing the boundaries between inside and outside. Windows will do that.

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Skydiving and Choices

Posted on: June 11th, 2013

U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Sky Jenson, a jump instructor with the 98th Flying Training Squadron, jumps out of a UV-18 Twin Otter aircraft at 4,500 ft, during the AM-490 skydiving course at the United States Air Force Academy. This is probably the ultimate illustration of the idea of “point of no return.” It’s true [...]

Satmar Protesting Draft in Manhattan

Posted on: June 10th, 2013

The way these guys can mobilize and organize, it’s a crime they’re not serving in the army. Thanks to מבזקי חדשות בזמן אמת for the images.

Rambam Students Present Talmudic Erudition to Illustrious Rabbis

Posted on: June 9th, 2013

May 30, Sivan 21, marked the culmination of a year of learning Torah, when Rambam Mesivta students had the privilege of presenting novella to two great Rabbinical scholars. The students: Benjamin Akhavan, Dov Bitterman, Eitan Blumstein, Eric Grossman, Shlomo Laufer, Yair Lichtman, Michael Rosenfeld, Dovid Simpser and Joseph Yizhaky, are part of the school’s advanced [...]

I Love Cats

Posted on: June 7th, 2013

This is a Chinese tiger from the Ramat Gan Safari. I can just picture him prowling restlessly in our living room in Netanya, waiting for his lunch. How beautiful he would look on our big couch. Just a gorgeous cat, shaking his majestic tail vigorously. I just can’t picture the rest of us in this [...]

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Good Morning!

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

Three hens and a rooster at dusk in a Bedouin camp in the Jordan Valley, near Umm Qais. I want one!

IDF Chefs Face Off

Posted on: June 5th, 2013

In the first event of its kind, the IDF’s Gaza Division hosted a cooking competition between various battalions located near the Gaza Strip last Monday (May 27). Over the course of the day, seven battalions participated in challenges focusing on particular cooking styles, redefining boundaries of the IDF’s food preparations. The jury consisted of four [...]

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Just Another June Graduation

Posted on: June 4th, 2013

This is an Arab member of Al-Nasser Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, “showing his combat skills” during a graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 2, 2013. I wonder who gave the commencement speech.

Contrasts

Posted on: June 3rd, 2013

The rainbow flags decorated the beach of Tel Aviv June 02, 2013, in anticipation of the upcoming “gay pride” parade. I never understood the concept of gay pride. I was never proud of any of my own afflictions. I’ve battled them all my life, to the point where the battle itself is part of who [...]

The Current and Next Presidents?

Posted on: June 2nd, 2013

Here’s President Barack Obama congratulates / arm-wrestles New Jersey Governor Chris Christie while playing the “TouchDown Fever” arcade game along the Point Pleasant boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., May 28, 2013. And I’m thinking – this could be one of those historic pictures of the now and next president being so totally chummy with [...]

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Another Year, Another Slutwalk

Posted on: June 2nd, 2013

Has it been a year already since the last time exceptionally endowed, young Israeli women walked the streets of Jerusalem, protesting the undue attention men were giving exceptionally endowed women walking the streets of Jerusalem? The protesters, which walked in Jerusalem a couple of months after the Tel Aviv march, are sick and tired of [...]

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Road Map to a Culture of Peace in the Middle East

Posted on: May 31st, 2013

On May 9, 2013, an international conference in Istanbul, Turkey, convened to discuss a Road Map to a Culture Of Peace in the Middle East. The conference Promoted the culture of peace and global ethics for conflict mediation through cultural diplomacy. The May 9th conference in Istanbul brought together parliamentary, academic and religious leaders who [...]

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Text Protesting

Posted on: May 30th, 2013

Shimshon Blass, an Israeli elderly citizens, hung a sign on his neck on Wednesday, during a protest outside a government building in Tel Aviv, against the upcoming, feared budget cuts. If you try hard you can read some of the sign: he wrote down his military service number, listed his 32 years of service in [...]

The IDF Is Prettier

Posted on: May 29th, 2013

Here’s an image of an Israeli female soldier filling up drinking water from a cistern into bags, as part of the Home Front Command drill at a high school in Jerusalem, May 28. Would I be out of line to say that Israel has the prettiest soldiers and that’s why we’ll win in the end? [...]