ByPaul Shindman
I promised you before and here it is: a 6-pack is a “Shishia” (pronounced SHEE-shee-uh). Literally, it means a sextet or sextuplet. And how do you say “two-four”? You don’t, because they don’t sell cases of 24 beers in Israel. No 12-packs either.  (For the curious among you, in Hebrew if you wanted to [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

When I first moved to Toronto, from Newmarket, Ontario, I felt it took months, even a couple years to feel like Toronto was mine. A destination site for many tourists, I always tell my friends in Israel not to visit Toronto, if they come to Canada. Not because I don’t love Toronto, but [...]

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By Paul Shindman
I was going to write about beer in Israel, how much Israelis drink compared to the per capita Canuck, etc etc etc. At the back of my mind was a tidbit I heard years ago that a Canadian brewery once held a share in Israel’s national brewing company. So this blog was going [...]

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by Paul Shindman
Every now and then you start reading a news story     and some 25 watt bulb goes on in the back of your  mind. By the time you’re a few graphs down, it hit’s 40 watts and that subconcious thought bubbles to the surface of my brain.
Such it was with the tragic story of [...]

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