Israel has been automatically slotted in the second semifinal of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest since the first falls on Israeli Memorial Day.
The semifinal slots are allocated by a special drawing, which will be held in January.
Israel would have withdrawn from the contest if it had not been assured of the May 12 semifinal.
Israel withdrew in 1980 and 1984 because the contest conflicted with the observance of its Memorial Day, or Yom Hazikaron.
It’s one thing to write about the animosity Jews have been facing on streets around the world– it’s another to come face to face with that animosity.
A new book by Melanie Phillips challenges the conventional wisdom and offers innovative ideas and practical tools to fight the global surge of antisemitism.
“Out From Under” is filled with strong, dynamic women who all have something to teach Lev, but the author resists framing the novel as a feminist project.
Hatchwell believes the most powerful response is not silence or retreat, but education.
Forty years mark a full biblical generation — a measure of time often associated with transformation, endurance and renewal. Few people embody that idea more fully than Cantor Chayim Frenkel.
Since its founding in 1951, Israel Bonds has focused on one mission: to generate financial support for the building and development of Israel’s economy.
Villaraigosa is running for governor by arguing that California needs the lessons he says he learned there: dignity for working families, better schools, public safety, second chances, coalition building and transparent government that works.
Treating education costs and housing as parallel crises reveals a unified threat to demographic and cultural vitality.
With Memorial Day here and the official start of the summer grilling season, we offer you a recipe for delicious for Moroccan-spiced chicken skewers.
There’s nothing like gathering outdoors, firing up the grill and trying some new, delicious dishes. While traditional cookout fare always has its place, there are plenty of ways to mix things up.
Given the prominence of dairy in Mexican cuisines, Jinich loves embracing dairy for Shavuot, which is one of her favorite parts of the holiday.
The strangest thing is the instability of standards — the peculiar way arithmetic shifts, the speed with which contradictions become irrelevant, the confidence with which certainty arrives before inquiry.
A new book by Melanie Phillips challenges the conventional wisdom and offers innovative ideas and practical tools to fight the global surge of antisemitism.
Was there a plan for bringing about a revolution, or more a hope than a plan?
We are being manipulated, by the same people, with the same playbook.
In a world where encampments, boycotts and student government protests of released hostages make headlines, we must focus on students who want to learn, engage and become bridge builders.
To be spiritual is to be connected. To be connected is to experience the ways of being, like dancing and loving, as they are shared with others.
