Orthodox Jews will do just about anything to pray on time and with a quorum of at least ten other Jews (minyan).
Here’s a great photo gallery and review (in Hebrew) of the now ‘famous’ train minyan that runs weekday mornings from Bet Shemesh to Tel Aviv. They even have their own Torah and Ark [...]
An old joke waiting to be told:
How many Jews does it take to open the Ark and take out the Torah? Normally, the answer is one. Ok, I’ve seen in some synagouges two. How about three?
Background:
The synagouge service on days were the Torah includes an honor called “peticha” which litterally means [...]
On the patio of the hotel restaurant. Give that bird a watermellon!
Top Israeli Films of All Time:
1. Sallah Shabbati (1964) – Directed by Ephraim Kishon, starring Topol. Notice the hillarious Mike Burstein in a cameo role. Arik Einstein is there too. This is the quintessential story of the young Israel set in the late 1950’s as Sephardic (Oriental) and Yemenite Jews were immigrating [...]
