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Just finished watching the movie A Jihad for Love. One of the first of its kind – a documentary following the personal stories of Homosexuals in Muslim nations. A highly controversial film, highlighting these issues which most dare not talk about. It is heartbreaking to see these people’s struggle between love for their religion vs. realizing [...] Saturday Guard automatically shuts down your website during Sabbath (and ONLY during Sabbath) according to the browser’s geographic location. Another genius innovation from our beloved religious sect (did I already mention that I can’t wait for someone to invent sarcastic type already!) With the development of technology the Internet takes a major roll in our day [...] Passover is probably the only holiday that I get truly excited about celebrating. Not only because its great food, but for its many little customs. The Seder takes place on the first night of Passover. A time to get together with friends and family, eat well, drink lots of wine, sing and tell the story [...] I’ve recently been inspired by some text visualization methods. Of specific interest to me are Edward Tufte’s Sparklines, simple word sized graphics, which allow their users to get the gist of what’s happening with the data without needing to fully read it all. The graphic below is a 13th century manuscript bible with these amazing [...] Hanukkah is just around the corner. Definitely my favorite of the Jewish holidays, it has interesting historical value and deals with issues relevant to our current-day culture (not only in Israeli). It celebrates the victory of the Israelites over the ancient Greeks in a series of battles taking place around the year 165 BC. This [...] Jerusalem is the everlasting city of layers. Inhabited for over 3000 years, it is a hodgepodge of different cultures and religions from around the world. This post describes the prolonged rivalry, rarely written about, between Ethiopian and Coptic communities in Jerusalem. It is believed that Coptic presence existed in Jerusalem since the 9th century AD. The [...] My latest Global Voices Online post examines the Israeli law which forbids businesses to run during the time of Sabbath. Over the past week there has been rising anticipation towards the planned Harry Potter gala event, which was synchronized worldwide to 2am local time, Friday night, smack in the midst of the Jewish Sabbath. The [...] |
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