On the more serious side:
- Mother in Israel, who sadly lost her father, writes about what was helpful (and what was not) during her shiva. A good series of advice for people on how to help... and how not to. (MiI)
- Russian billionaire to fund Jewish "Al-Jazeera", except with less propaganda. (JPost)
- A CNN sports legend is leaving birthday messages for his little daughter as he fights a losing battle with cancer. (CNN)
- Eli Clark on "Who is Modern Orthodox?" (Hirhurim)
- Josh Waxman asks if believing a pomegranate has 613 seeds is a fundamental belief (no) and explains why some truly think so.(Parshablog)
- On a What Would You Do show (Israeli version, not ABC's), it's impressive that just about every Israeli not just didn't support an (acting) anti-Arab store owner, but criticized, offered to pay for the (acting) Arab lady trying to buy coffee, and many got extremely emotional (angry or sad) about it. (Cross Currents)
- New sport that looks cool/fun, if a bit confusing (Why do they have 4 goals if it's two teams? Do they have to defend two each?) - Kronum.
- Unorthodox Orthodox guitarist. I just like that he was playing at an IFL game. (RafiG)
- Israel winery wins international award - I always liked Golan. (EoZ)
- Israeli tots win international ice hockey tournament... despite never having played on ice before. (EoZ)
- Fun video from the Governor press conference when the famous YouTube kid who cried he couldn't be Governor is made Governor for a day in New Jersey. If Christie does run for President, this video will do him well; also, he comes off well on TV.
- Cool time lapse video of a flight from San Francisco to Paris. Best part: Aurora Borealis in middle.
- Via A Soldier's Mother, Dov Hoschander (a genuinely nice guy who I've met a few times through a friend) has made a really nice music video of a song dedicated to the IDF, based on the Mi Shebeirach for soldiers in the army.
I once decided to sit down and actually count the seeds in a pomegranite. I sorted them out nicely and got to 597
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