Rosh Hashana, What Is It?

Rosh Hashana, literally head of the year, is accepted as the New Year within the Jewish calendar.

Jewish concept of a new year is somewhat different from Christian concept. Rosh Hashana is part of a longer period known as the High Holidays. It begins about a week earlier, includes Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkoth.

Since Rosh Hashana symbolizes the beginnings, a traditional belief has it that this day is the sixth day of Creation (the day man was created and all creating completed). Rosh Hashana is also seen as the day of God inscribing you into the Book of Life, which is sealed on Yom Kippur.

A period preceding Rosh HaShana is known as Shlihot (forgiveness). For many this entails getting up earlier than usual, as the shlihot prayers are usually said at midnight or before sunrise. There are areas in Jerusalem where this has become a great tradition, attracting Jerusalemites from all its neighborhoods. [Read more...]

Electrical Cars, Clean Tech, Going Greener

Every so often I come across really exciting news stories. Even though in its outline this blog does not concern itself with every day news, when something really exciting comes along, I will bring it to the attention of readers.

So what is this exciting piece of news?
Well, it is about being green, and going green. Apparently, an Israeli-American entrepreneur has brought in an investment of $350 million to develop the world’s first complete grid for 100% electrical cars. This is double exciting, because it means that there is government approval. Actually the approval was granted more than two years ago.
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Food for Thought

When we hear those words: food for thought, most of will become very serious and start to think and even wonder what it is we are supposed to think about. In this case Food for Thought is actually food.

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On November 19-20, 2009 Israel will  hold the first ever “Food for Thought” Conference.
The topic of the conference is to make us think about our food, not just what to make for dinner today, but rather what kind of food are we eating, how it’s grown and distributed.

The conference will have a cook-down on making the tastiest meal with the lowest carbon footprint. There will also be talks on climate, agriculture, water, energy, consumerism and culture. The featured speaker will be Ruti Ozeki, author of “My Year of Meats” (1998), about two women living in Japan and America and connecting over a TV cooking show. [Read more...]