Funk’n’stein is Israel’s go-to old school funk band. Their shows are as fun as their music is funky, and since their music is plenty funky, you can just imagine how awesome the shows are. So if you find yourself in Jerusalem on the 20th of January, they will be playing at a venue called Even […]
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Miki Zohar is an Israeli Knesset member with the Likud party. He is often seen in parliament sporting his trademark 5 o’clock shadow and despite his contention that you have to be delusional not to believe in God, he never wears a kippah. Miki is a proud son of Kiryat Gat, a rural development town […]
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Taylor, a Buzzfeed employee who is Jewish, stars in another video about Jews. This time she white-girl-raps her song of the alienation felt by a Jew at a Christmas party. While I don’t believe she’s never heard of “Secret Santa” or mistletoe, I too must admit that I have no idea what a “Yule” is. […]
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What happens when you combine Israeli Hanukkah doughnuts and exotic Israeli ingredients? No. I’m not talking about Sabra fruit or Jaffa Oranges. I’m talking falafel flavored doughnuts. Sabich flavored doughnuts. Bamba flavored doughnuts, etc. etc. Yeah. Total weirdness, right? But how does it taste? Watch the clip and find out. Props to the Alexander Muss […]
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Israel is funny with the doughnuts. For most of the year, there are no doughnuts in Israel. No doughnut shops, no coffee carts selling doughnuts, no cops munching on doughnuts, nothing. But then, one month before Hanukkah, a holiday celebrated in part by the consumption of oily foods, Israel witnesses a veritable explosion of doughnuts! […]
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AP reports “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from prison Friday, saying he wished him well in this new chapter of his life. Many shoppers at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market agreed. .” For those of you who don’t know, Pollard was convicted and sent to prison for […]
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From Rowch’s YouTube page: Ofer Bymel aka “Rowch” is a 1 man live drums / electronic act from Israel. Rowch works to create intense, high strung, and even aggressive bass music. He produces everything but the drums in the studio, and then plays them live on stage. Inspired by acts such as F.U.K.T, KJ Sawka, […]
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The World Hates Us BUT – ISRAEL IS ALIVE BDS? Anti-Israel UN resolutions? Terrorist attacks? The world has been very critical of Israel in the past decades, but the State of Israel is just trying to survive. A new and hot music group from Israel, JEW2, releases their first video clip, based on the popular […]
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Bint El Funk are a Jerusalem-based Israeli band/collective that performs in Arabic, Hebrew and English. They had a gig last night at Even Juke as part of the IndieCity Festival. The Festival was postponed because of rain but luckily Bint El Funk’s show wasn’t because, you know, indoors venue. Yay! Sorry […]
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It’s been raining in Jerusalem all day. Any rain in Israel is a good thing given how we’re usually this parched miss in the middle of the desert. It’s doubly good today because we’vr been hit by yet another dust storm – the kind where this fine sand gets into EVERY. THING. EVERYWHERE. The rain […]
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