By Karin Kloosterman

Well the title of this post is kind of misleading. Sort of.
This is a story about Shari Arison, the billionaire heiress of Carnival Cruiselines. With a reported $5.5 billion in assets (according to Forbes), Arison is the richest woman in the Middle East. Owner of one of Israel’s banks, Arison is hard to [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Canada ’s national sport will be skating its way to the Holy Land next year and big things are expected of the Canucks.
The Canadian squad is considered among the favourites to win the third annual World Jewish Hockey Tournament, which will be hosted in Metulla, Israel at the Canada Centre from July [...]

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by Lauren Kramer
That’s precisely the question Toronto documentary filmmaker Igal Hecht recently tried to find out. The 30-year-old Israeli-born Hecht, who hails from Ashkelon, took himself on a journey across Israel earlier this year to film My Flag, a film about the flag’s symbolism. On his trip he draped himself in the Israeli flag and [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
 
If there were any doubts about Prime Minister Harper’s commitment to supporting the State of Israel, this video makes things very clear. He was scheduled to visit Israel in the spring, and receive an honourary doctorate at one of its universities (the trip was postponed unfortunately due to political uncertainty):
Reports the Globe and [...]

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By Paul Shindman
I often think my goal in life is to convince my family and friends back in the Great White North that being half way around the world from Canada isn’t always that different. The reminder this time wasn’t beer after the hockey game, or finding a fox in my backyard, but the municipal elections [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

Israeli-Canadian Hadass Ben-Ari says there’s no place for her brand of direct honesty at mainstream newspapers in Israel. That’s why the 26-year-old has been spending her time self-publishing Fallopian Falafel since May 2007, which she describes as “the first and only Jerusalem-based feminist zine, bringing riot grrrl culture to the holy land.”
Ben-Ari was born [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Living in Israel, most of the news we read –– as you can imagine–– revolves around Middle East politics. It gets tiring. Naturally, I try to avoid the newspapers, and read my news online, picking and choosing the sections that appeal to me: technology, biotech, culture and art. Once in a while, my work [...]

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By Staff
No matter what kind of wine you like to drink, you can find it all across Canada.  In Ontario, for example, the LCBO carries a large variety of Sauvignon and Chardonnay, among other choices from Israel.  If you live in Quebec, there are a few things to choose from at the SAQ.
The Israeli wine industry [...]

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By Staff
This is just funny!

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By Adam Michael Segal
We are living in a time that will forever be regaled as historic.
The election of Barack Obama as the first-ever African-American President of the United States is unquestionably unprecedented.
The near election of Sarah Palin as the first-female vice President would have been remarkable.
And while it may not make the kinds of headlines [...]

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