Once again Leadel held parley to another intellectually stimulating event at the IDC-Herzliya, this past Thursday, April 29, featuring Amsterdam-born lecturer and dreamer Yuri van der Sluis. "Dreamer" here is meant literally, not pejoratively. Yuri is a man of many dreams. He believes all of them can happen if he makes it so. As the aphorism of Theodor Herzl went, If you will it is no fairytale.

Hey, Cyberspace!

Here we are sitting in the Pelephone "bloggers' booth" at the TEDxTelAviv Event in the Jaffa Port - Na L'ga'at Center (for all those who don't speak Hebrew, that means 'please touch')...

Here you have them, folks, the winners and the stories behind these extraordinary Jew Doers. As hoped, “Jews That Do” revealed some unique Jews from around the world, and some very talented video artists!

Risking sounding a bit arrogant, I'm the sort of guy that looks to challenge upcoming main stream ideas (a.k.a trends).  Sometimes I challenge them just because they're there, and sometimes because I really see problems up ahead.

I took a week to think about the Masa campaign and all the noise that came after it. And after a week, the bottom line was, that I thought the whole thing was great. So much talk about the core Jewish issues, values, what we are all about – and without having anybody killed – that’s a real achievement.