For Zion's Sake...

This is not even discussing all the energy saved because of Sabbath observance either!

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Something to think about - Share this with your environmentally conscious friends.

Nutella’s ad for Passover: the Azreili Towers in Tel Aviv made of matzot.

"Jew" is new word for "cool," Dutch linguists report

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Last night of #Chanukah #Hannukah

#jewish

Eight Nights, a Hanukkah mash-up song, done by the acapella group StandFour. StandFour includes four alumni of Yeshiva University’s acapella group the Maccabeats.

The Technion created a Rube Goldberg machine to light up a menorah for the upcoming Chanukkah holiday.

Christian Zionists attempt to ban Hamas from Twitter

Over 12,000 have emailed Twitter in the first hour of the campaign’s launch.

Moroccan Jew winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

“Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to supercomputers. Haroche is from a Jewish family and was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1944. He has lectured at Israel’s Technion University.

“The two men were honored for pioneering experimental experiments in ‘measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems,’ the jury said in its citation, AFP reported.”

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Picture of The Day

PM Netanyahu dips an apple in the honey at the start of his Cabinet meeting in honor of the coming New Year.

Life In Israel

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Jewish White Sox player will play for Israel in World Baseball Classic

The real “catastrophe.”

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Withdrawal From Gaza

On this day, 7 years ago, August 15-22, 2005, the State of Israel underwent an internally polarizing and extraordinary dramatic event which would become known as the disengagement from the Gaza Strip. The film ‘Withdrawal From Gaza’ offers a personal behind-the-scenes look, both before and during the evacuation, at the people whose lives would forever be impacted by the events which unfolded during those difficult weeks. With the ramifications of the disengagement from Gaza still very evident today, this emotional documentary film takes you back to experience the event from the perspective of both the settler and the soldier.

Life In Israel

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A-jad threatens war with Israel: "Tumor" of Israel will soon be destroyed

“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual anti-Israel protest in Tehran on Friday that the Jewish state was a ‘cancerous tumour’ that will soon be excised, drawing Western rebukes.”

Iran: Israel's existence an insult to humanity

“Israel’s existence is an ‘insult to all humanity,’ Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.”

The Black Eyed Peas visited the Kotel before their upcoming concert in Israel.

Simply Israel: Aly Raisman revels that the source of her gold medal routine was a tribute to the victims of the 1972 munich massacre

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Aly Raisman stated that using the score, Hava Nagila was in response to the IOC’s failure to commemorate the attacks in Munich in 1972. For those who don’t know, 11 Israeli athletes were killed in the Olympic games in Munich, by Palestinian terrorists. They came to the Olympics to achieve their…