Those Jews can even play hockey!

Somehow, I missed this: Having won the last two games with team Greece 26-2 and team Turkey 9-1, Israel National ice Hockey team was ranked first in the World Ice Hockey Championship III division in South Africa, received Champion’s gold medals and a ticket to the IIHF second division (IIB).Goals in Israel team scored:Israel – Greece 26:2: Kniter x3, x6 Mazur, Lebedev X 2, Sherbatov x 6, Frenkel

Greece and Israel: More in common than you think

Someone reminded me recently of a quip I once made about a fellow Orthodox Jewish Freshman at Columbia in the 1970's, who had written on his dorm application that he wanted an 'Orthodox roommate' and got a Greek Orthodox one, which was not what he had in mind (he wanted an Orthodox Jewish roommate). The person who reminded me of the story thought I was the protagonist (I was not).But Greece and

It's the economy, stupid!

Caroline Glick finishes off a description of the impending collapse of much of the world economy with this: DUE TO the economic policies implemented by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu since his first tenure as prime minister in 1996, in the face of this economic disaster, Israel is likely to find itself in the unlikely position of standing along China and India as among the only stable,

Flotilla of fools to sail from Turkey at the end of Ramadan?

'Israeli Arab' weekly Kul al-Arab is reporting that the Greek government has agreed to release the yachts from the flotilla of fools to Turkey, and that Turkey will allow the flotilla of fools to sail from its harbors at the end of Ramadamadan (approximately August 31). A member of the Turkish delegation to the second Freedom Flotilla told the Arab-Israeli weekly Kul Al-Arab that the Greek and