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You Too Can Be A Whistle-Blower 25 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
This video is well worth a few minutes of your time. Hopefully, it will validate your right to have concerns, encourage you to speak them out, and to direct your energies to improving the world aroun...
Booze: Taxing The Poor; Pampering The Rich 22 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
I recently popped into the excellent Cellar 18 booze shop in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Proprietor Gedalya Persky told me that, due to the new budget passed in Israel, there have been big price changes in t...
The Beit Shemesh Primaries Experiment 18 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
A few weeks ago I wrote about an innovative and progressive approach to politics in Beit Shemesh. Here's an update about how that process went. Appreciating the self-defeating results of a split vot...
Magen on Israel's Russian-language TV 11 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
I was interviewed on behalf of Magen last week for Channel 9, Israel's Russian TV station. The subject was child protection and the interview took place at Magen in Beit Shemesh. The trigger was the ...
Rav Motty Elon: Not Too Big To Fail 11 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
Rabbi Motty Elon was the poster-rabbi of the National Religious in Israel. His weekly classes on the torah portion were standing-room only, and broadcast live on radio; on Friday afternoons Rabbi Elo...
The Drums of Peace 5 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
"Peace" sounds as universally positive as apple pie and motherhood. However, in our corner of the Middle East "Peace" has become associated with terror, national humiliation, and thousands of dead. ...
MK Dov Lipman To Help Combat Child Abuse 4 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
MK Rabbi Dov Lipman with Magen's CEO, David Morris MK Rabbi Dov Lipman of Yesh Atid visited the "Magen" Child Protection Organization in Beit Shemesh on Sunday 28thJuly, 2013. Many of the families w...
Channel Two Revisits Beit Shemesh 28 Jul 2013 | 06:33 pm
18 months after the clip of Na'ama Margolese, the young victim of spitting by ultra-orthodox residents, which generated outrage and protests throughout Israel, and hit the world's headlines, Channel T...
Beit Shemesh - Innovative Democracy 26 Jul 2013 | 09:59 am
The often vicious and degrading conflicts during the election campaigns for the Chief Rabbia, thankfully now over (Rabbi David Lau, Ashkenazi, and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Sephardi, won), increase the rel...
Best Short Movie! 17 Jul 2013 | 11:59 am
Lema'an Achai has launched a very short, compact movie about this great chesed organization. Take two minutes and watch carefully! Impressed? Click here to donate: https://www.lemaanachai.org/Donat...
