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 [...]
Work on a Dig for Antiquities in Israel
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: archaeology · travel
An Israeli Company To Make Blackberry Users More Worldly
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: technology
You still get change on the bus in Israel
December 25th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tel Aviv is IT
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: travel
Jerusalemite Exposes The Hidden Gems of Jerusalem
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: travel
Book Details A Real Life Story of the Kibbutz World
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: travel
