Jewish Music Video: Shwekey Kumzits

Amazing kumzits in Israel with yaakov shwekey singing one of his top songs named rachem composed by Pinky Weber took place in a yeshiva in Jerusalem choel hamoed sukkas 2011. Enjoy!

 

Jerusalem: Becoming an Arab City?

The NYT has a very distressing article about Jerusalem: more and more Jews are leaving the Holy City. There are more Jews leaving the city than coming in, the report claims.

In a 1967 census taken shortly after the war, the population of Jerusalem was 74 percent Jewish and 26 percent Arab. Today, the city is 66 percent Jewish and 34 percent Arab, with the gap narrowing by about 1 percentage point a year, according to the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

Jerusalem’s Jewish population is still growing despite the out-migration, but only by a little over 1 percent a year — not enough to match the annual 3 percent increase among Arabs.

One of the issue the article points to is that Jerusalem is too extreme religiously for most secular Israeli's. As more religious Jews move in, more secular Jews are moving out.

King Herod's Tomb: Has it Been Found?

A lot of excitement has been building over recent archaeological findings of what some are saying is the tomb site of King Herod. As no inscriptions or bones have yet been found experts are not so inclined to jump to that conclusion just yet.

'We have here all the attributes of a royal funeral,'' said archeologist Yaakov Kalmar. ''We didn't find inscriptions so far. ... The work is not finished.''