By Paul Shindman
The Dead Sea Scroll exhibit at the ROM in Toronto gives Canadians a peek at ancient history that is literally underfoot wherever you walk in Israel.
Canada’s native peoples lived with the land, and archeological sites are sprinkled across Canada’s vastness. Unlike the ancient Israelites and other locals in the Holy Land, the Canadian [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Canadians love their Blackberries, and I am not talking about the small berries you buy from the side of the road near Huntsville, Ontario in the summer. Thanks to a new Israeli technology, the old Blackberry smartphone is going to be a lot more useful.
A Blackberry development fund, BlackBerry Partners Fund, which controls [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Isn’t Israel that bastion of, well, un-safeness? Isn’t it one horribly ferociously unsafe place for men, women and children?
Ha ha! Fooled ya again. It just ain’t so. All those front page stories about war and terrorism and strife? Well, they’re just front page stories. And getting on the bus is just another page [...]

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By Staff

If you are looking for a hot spot to visit in 2009, then Tel Aviv is IT!  The trendy website Concierge.com has added Tel Aviv to a list of “IT” destinations for 2009.
This modern coastal city will be celebrating its 100th birthday next year, with an event kicking off in April in Rabin Square with the [...]

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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 Adam Michael Segal
When a friend suggested a kibbutz as a fun and inexpensive option for an extended trip, a very important question rushed into John Carson’s head.
 What on earth is a kibbutz?
 “I had never heard the word before,” says Carson, a Toronto resident originally from England.
 “And all I knew about Israel was what I [...]

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