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.

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Last night of #Chanukah #Hannukah

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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.

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

simplyisrael:

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…

French Olympian swimmer, Fabien Gilot, raised his arm after winning a gold medal to reveal his tattoo - אני כלום בלעדיהם - I am nothing without them.

He explained that it was a tribute to his grandmother’s Jewish husband, Max Goldschmidt, an Auschwitz survivor and a huge influence on his life.

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Tisha B’Av 2012 - Kotel 

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Germany to pay additional $300M for Shoah restitution to Israel

“Germany has agreed to provide restitution payments to an additional 80,000 Jews, following negotiations on Monday between Claims Conference representatives and German officials in Washington. The agreement is likely to result in additional payments of approximately $300 million, most of which will go to Nazi victims in the former Soviet Union who have never received payments or compensation from previous German restitution agreements.”

Israelis recently marched in Tel Aviv calling upon the government to pass a fair draft law that would include all sectors of society including the Arab and Haredim minorities.

Singer Sarah Aroeste will highlight an upcoming Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jewry, concert and culture festival in Gilbraltar.

Israelis help to discover the "G-d particle"

“Perhaps appropriately for the Land of the Bible, Israeli researchers played a significant part in Wednesday’s breakthrough on what scientists call the ‘God particle,’ properly known as the Higgs boson, the missing link in Einstein’s Standard Theory.”