The Polish government has decided to invest an unprecedented amount of money to remember Jewish History in the country at the Jewish Institute for Heritage.
On the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and on the site where the Ghetto once stood, a major new cultural institution will open its doors for the first time. The institute will officially open its doors in about a years time, but a soft launch is already scheduled for this spring.
As President Barak Obama is arriving in Israel and among all the high ranking government officials he is going to be introduced to is going to be a 21-year old girl from Netanya who was personally invited by the president, we of course are talking about the most beautiful woman in Israel for 2013, Miss Israel, TiTi Aynaw. We caught up with her in this exclusive JN1 interview about how it feels to get ready to meet her biggest role model.
Its hard to believe that less than a month ago no one knew who TiTi was, like a meteor the newly crowned Miss Israel has become a huge celebrity not only in her native, Israel but internationally as well, so much that Barak Obama has heard about her and decided that he wants to meet her.
This probably the most challenging project done in the Jewish world ever… 365,000 Jewish people on all five continent each contributed one letter to a Torah scroll that today will be inducted in the wailing wall and will wait there until the third temple will open it’s doors somewhere in the unknown future.
This is the remarkable story of the vision Ukrainian business tycoon, Vadim Rabinovich, who decided to create something no one has ever aspired to do: write a Torah Scroll where Jews on every continent will contribute each a single letter. Seven-years later (and a few million dollars invested) finally the writing of the scroll has been completed.
The discovery of natural gas at the Tamar plant off the shores of Israel is potentially going have a life changing effect for Israel who has always been known a country with no natural resources, however not all looks so rosy with new found treasure.
As Israel seems to be having enough gas for decades to come, Nobel Energy is starting to look for oil as well and who knows maybe there is another undersea treasure just waiting to be discovered.
The municipal elections are just around the corner and every candidate is trying to get noticed. The “We Power Foundation” decided to give the many female candidates a spotlight by organizing a mass dance event where all of the candidates from around the country will create one big circle of trust…
Israel is breaking records in these municipal elections in the number of women candidates. forty-two-women are running for mayor and hundreds more for the various council positions up for election.