So Many Cool Startups…

Take a visit to some of the world’s most innovative startups and meet incredibly talented and creative people in the video above. You’ll never guess where you can find all of them.

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Making Peace through Music

Music is often a universal language that can bring together people from diverse backgrounds, who sometimes can’t or don’t speak to each other. The mission of Notes for Peace, begun at NYU, is to bring together Jews and Arabs in Israel to promote tolerance and understanding. From the video above, the experience appears to be [...]

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Celebrating Independence at NYC’s Apollo Theater

This year’s official celebration in New York of Israel’s 61st birthday took us to the Apollo Theater. As you may remember, a similar event took place last year–and this year’s was even more special. Have a gander at the video above for just some of the many highlights of the evening–which included spectacular performances from [...]

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Dance Regimen for Parkinson’s Patients

Life can be tough for people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s a degenerative condition characterized by tremors and impaired balance, among other symptoms. As reported by Haaretz and Israel21C, Israeli therapist and martial arts expert Alex Kerten has developed a method to help Parkinson’s patients live a better and more fulfilling life. You can learn about [...]

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When Loren Feldman Meets Jeff Pulver

Loren Feldman of 1938 Media, caught up with Jeff Pulver, one of the leaders in internet phone and video, at a Garage Geeks event in Tel Aviv. In the video above (from 1938 Media), you can hear their takes on the entrepreneurial spirit in Israel.

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Thru You Makes Music out of YouTube

It’s fair to say that YouTube has a lot of videos of people making music–either singing, playing some instrument or making nice sounds in some other way. Now, Israeli musician Kutiman has taken their work to the next level. By patiently sifting through dozens of YouTube videos and stiching them together, he’s managed to create [...]

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Israeli Song Now a Hit in China

According to a Ynet report, “In the Heat of Tel Aviv,” a popular song by Sarit Hadad (see Hebrew version in video above), has been extremely popular with audiences in China, thanks to a new adaptation into Chinese. Israel already has a number of ties to China, maybe now music will become one of the [...]

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Meet Oren Lavie: Singer, Songwriter, Director

We hadn’t heard much of Oren Lavie either until watching the YouTube video above (of his song “Her Morning Elegance,” which has apparently been used in a Chevy commercial), which we think is just really pretty cool. And so is the music. In the spirit of edification, we decided to do some research for you. [...]

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Local Students Salute Heroine of Mumbai Terror Attack

This week, the fifth-grade students at the Solomon Schechter School in Long Island decided to extend their thanks to Sandra Samuel. She made headlines recently for saving Moshe Holtzberg from the Mumbai Chabad house, in which both his parents were killed. They decided to write to Samuel as a way to do their part in [...]

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New Technology Helps TV Audiences Get in the Game

Photo: Juha Makkonen on Wikimedia Commons, used under GNU Free Documentation License USA Today reports that, in advance of the American elections, TV producers have scoured the globe–including Israel–for new technologies for their broadcasts. One of the amazing things they found in Israel was SportVU, which allows sports commentators to collect stats about teams and [...]

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