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The Schmooze New York Journos Pay Tribute to Ed Koch at Benefit
“Mayor Koch believed that mayors were not elected to be president…but to pick up garbage …balance the budget…” said Marcia Kramer, CBS2 New York chief political correspondent and a panelist at the April 3 Tribute to Mayor Edward I. Koch and Benefit for Beit Morasha’s Edward I. Koch Center for Public Policy and Jewish Ethics…
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv Council Votes To Allow Shops To Stay Open on Shabbat
Tel Aviv’s city council has approved an amendment that would allow a limited number of grocery and convenience stores to remain open on Shabbat and holidays. The amendment was approved by the municipality on Monday. It still must be approved by the country’s Interior Ministry. It is illegal in Israel to open retail businesses on…
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The Schmooze Tel Aviv Makes Top Ten ‘Selfiest’ Cities List
Tel Aviv has the sixth-most “selfie-takers” per capita of any major city, according to a ranking in Time Magazine. One-hundred thirty-nine Tel Aviv residents per 100,000 frequently take selfies, or self-portraits taken with a cellphone, according to the survey, published Monday. The magazine calculated its results by surveying 400,000 selfies tagged according to location on…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Bring Tefillin to the Streets of Tel Aviv
They were standing in a public square in a major Israeli city, laying tefillin on women amidst shouts of protest and quizzical looks from nearby men in black hats. It’s become an occasional morning routine for Women of the Wall. Except this time, they weren’t at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. They were at the…
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Fast Forward Drive-By Killing Hits Beach as Mob Violence Rattles Tel Aviv
Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed a man as he drove near Tel Aviv’s bustling beachfront on Saturday, in what Israeli police suspected was the latest in a wave of gangland murders and attacks. The drive-by shooting took place in broad daylight, as families and tourists walked nearby on the afternoon of the Jewish Sabbath….
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Food A Taste of Paris Comes to Tel Aviv
Photo: Lauren Tolila What did Israeli restaurant-goers and French President Francois Hollande have in common this week? They probably ate the same dish. A group of 19 French chefs from some of the most prestigious restaurants in France visited Israel this week as part of the 2nd annual French gastronomy week, an event organized by…
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Opinion Avant-Garde Aliyah to Berlin
“There’s always this joke that half of Tel Aviv is actually here,” Liad Hussein Kantorowicz told me when I interviewed her in her Berlin apartment. The numbers back her up: According to the latest estimates, 15,000 to 20,000 people have left Israel in recent years to forge a new life in Berlin. Most of these…
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Fast Forward Larry King and Technion Israel Institute of Tecchnology To Promote Israel High-Tech
Former CNN host Larry King and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology have agreed to work together to promote Israeli high-tech. King and the Technion are establishing the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. They are set to be launched in Tel Aviv and at Stanford University in Palo…
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