Maccabiah 2013- here we go!
On Thursday, the 19th Maccabiah games (or: the Jewish Olympics) began with a spectacular opening ceremony, held in Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Around 32,000 packed the stands, as thousands of Jewish athletes from 77 countries marched around the stadium as part of the Parade of Nations.
Kind David's palace discovered
Two royal public buildings, the likes of which have not previously been found in the Kingdom of Judah of the 10th century BCE, were uncovered this past year by researchers of the Hebrew University and the Israel Antiquities Authority at Khirbet Qeiyafa – a fortified city in Judah dating to the time of King David and identified with the biblical city of Shaarayim. If that's not amazing enough, one of the buildings was identified as King David's palace!
Something to LIKE
After changing Facebook forever, Jared Morgenstern decided to take time to deepen his Jewish roots. The inventor of the “LIKE” button landed in Israel last week, and took some time to travel around and look for a Jewish bride.
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Experimenting ice-cream
Israel is best known as the Startup Nation, and still has a long way to go before it becomes the Ice-Cream Nation (we'll leave that to Italy.) But that doesn't mean we don't like to experiment with our ice-cream flavors… Hummus flavored ice-cream, anyone?
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