By Karin Kloosterman

When there’s no place like home, this Canadian-Israeli clicks her ruby red slippers and heads on over to Puah Cafe in Jaffa. Built with finds from the local flea market (Shuk ha Pish Pisheem), all the items at the cafe are also for sale. This place reminds me of any number of dives, [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Raising money ain’t childsplay, but the fruits of those fundraising efforts will be. Manitoba and Tel Aviv are collaborating to build a playground in the Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, a collaboration that was launched in Winnipeg recently.
The Manitoba-Israel Shared Values Roundtable (MISVR), led by Manitoba Minister of Water Stewardship Christine Melnick, will [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal

In a fabulous display of cultural diversity, performers of many stripes danced, drummed and sang their hearts out in Winnipeg recently to jointly celebrate Tel Aviv’s centennial.

A crowd of more than 500 people at The Pantages Theatre took part in the dynamic event, which was put on by the Manitoba-Israel Shared Values [...]

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See more great toilet paper wedding dress shots on the Toronto Sun website.

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By Karin Kloosterman
Two extremely different cities, two extremely different kinds of people. One kind of norm. It’s always hard to explain Israel to my Canadian family, who I am now visiting in North Bay, Ontario. It’s the little things that you see, I explain to them. Like when I was on the mini-bus (moneet shirut) [...]

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By Staff
Travel + Leisure magazine has published its list of “Best City in the Middle East” for 2009, and Jerusalem took top spot, with Tel Aviv coming in third.  In its 14th annual World Best Awards, this influential travel magazine ranks the best in cities, hotels, resorts, cruises and airlines worldwide.
“We are thrilled with the [...]

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By Staff

As the White City, Tel Aviv, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, the movement that gave it this famous name, Bauhaus, turns 90.
Six decades after the Nazis banned this revolutionary style of archictecture, huge crowds are descending on Berlin where a new exhibit entitled “Bauhaus - A Conceptual Model” is being showcased.
When the Bauhaus [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
When Tel Aviv celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, Canada will be there. Canada’s ballerinas, at any rate.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal will be performing in the Holy Land for the first time ever, as part of a three-week international tour that will also take the dancers to Egypt, Slovenia and Germany.
They’ll [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

It happened a day after Canada and the rest of the world, but Israel celebrated Earth Day yesterday in style. While Israelis were caught with their pants down this year for Earth Hour (there was a very important Israel-Greece soccer match after all), they made up for it with last night’s concert at [...]

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 By Adam Michael Segal

As Tel Aviv marks its milestone 100th birthday this year, Canadians are eagerly taking part in a number of festivities.
One such case in point is a centennial postcard design contest being held at Jewish schools across Toronto.
The lucky student who crafts the most appealing design in the eyes of the judges will [...]

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