IsraelCast

This week on IsraelCast, we have a special guest in honor of Women’s Month! Miriam Schwab has her pulse on all things tech in Israel, and is a Global WordPress expert. She's the founder and CEO of Stratic, a server-less publisher for WordPress websites that makes them more secure, faster and scalable. She's also the founder and CEO of Illuminea, a full - service Wordpress  development and online marketing agency. She shares her Israel journey, how she’s able to manage both home and office, and her many business successes.

With Passover around the corner, this week on IsraelCast we welcome Jennifer Abadi - a researcher, developer, and preserver of Sephardic and Judeo-Arabic recipes and food customs. A culinary expert in the Jewish communities of the Middle East, Mediterranean, Central Asia, and North Africa, Jennifer teaches cooking at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) and at the Jewish Community Center Manhattan (JCC). She also offers private lessons and works for a variety of clients in the New York City area as a personal chef. In addition, Jennifer provides Jewish food and culture tours on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her first cookbook-memoir, A Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes From Grandma Fritzie's Kitchen, is a collection of recipe and stores from her family. Too Good To Passover: Sephardic & Judeo-Arabic Seder Menus and Memories from Africa, Asia and Europe, her second cookbook released this January 2018,  specializes in traditional Sephardic, Judeo-Arabic, and Central Asian recipes and customs (covering both pre- and post-Passover rituals) appealing to Sephardic, Mizrahic, and Ashkenazic individuals who are interested in incorporating something traditional yet new into their Seders.

This week on IsraelCast, we speak with IDF Major General Res. Doron Almog, a decorated veteran who received the Israel Prize in 2016, and founded Aleh Negev, a state-of-the-art rehabilitative village in the Negev, home for children and adults with severe special needs. While in the IDF, Major General Almog led an operational task force against the terrorists who murdered the Israeli sports team during the Munich Olympics. He also commanded the first force to land in Entebbe during the 1976 rescue operation and played a key role in the clandestine mission that rescued around 6,000 Jewish Ethiopians from refugee camps in the Sudan. He shares about the groundbreaking work of Aleh Negev and about his remarkable career. This episode is in coordination with Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month, which we honor every February.

This week on IsraelCast, we were joined with the CEO of the Sterling Group International, Howard Sterling! Howard’s a Harvard educated lawyer, and a pioneer in taking Israeli healthcare companies public on the NASDAQ, beginning in 1981. He’s guided over 160 IPOS to date, including 24 Israeli companies, and has done extensive private placements and foreign strategic partnerships. Howard shares why Israel is so unique when it comes to tech and advanced medical care.

This week on IsraelCast, we meet with Laura Ben- David. Inspired by her Aliyah experience,  Laura began writing and never stopped! She’s the author of the book “Moving Up: An Aliyah Journal,” a memoir of her move to Israel. She’s spoken extensively about Israel and Aliyah. Formerly the head of social media at Nefesh B’Nefesh,  Laura, who’s an accomplished and exhibited photographer, recently started her own business LBD Creative. She shares her Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah experience, her work with the Bnai Menashe community, and about photographing Israel.

On this week’s episode of IsraelCast, we welcome Ambassador Ido Aharoni, a global distinguished professor at NYU school of International Relations. He’s known as the founder of the Brand Israel program, a marketing paradigm that is focusing on Israel’s assets and broadening public understanding of the country’s global contributions. He was  career public servant in Israel’s foreign ministry, and served as the longest serving Consul General of Israel in NY, among many other positions and accomplishments throughout his career.

On this week’s episode of IsraelCast, we were joined in the studio with Steve Rhodes, Chairman and CEO of the Trendlines Group. This Galilee-based company invents, discovers, invests in and incubates innovation based medical and agricultural technologies. Steve shares the cutting edge technologies his team is developing, what makes Israel a tech leader, and why the Galilee is such a dynamic place to work and live in.

On this week’s episode of IsraelCast, we welcome Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the president of Shurat HaDin, a Tel- Aviv-based law center that represents the families of hundreds of terrorist attack victims in lawsuits world-wide.  Nitsana was recognized by Forbes Israel as one of the 50 most-influential Israeli women of 2016, and by the Jerusalem Post as one of the most influential Jews. Together with special operations and counter terrorism experts, Nitsana recently co-authored Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters with Shmuel Katz.  

This week’s episode of IsraelCast is a special one, recorded live this month at our 2017 National Conference in South Florida! Steven speaks in front of a live audience with the multi-faceted Titi Aynaw – a top Israeli model, television personality, Israel advocate and community leader. She became the first Israeli Ethiopian to win the Miss Israel title back in 2013. Just last year, she placed second in the Israeli version of the T.V. show Survivor, which took place in Honduras. She recently founded and helps fund the Titi project, which provides extracurricular activities and enrichment to 66 Ethiopian children in Netanya, and she hopes to expand the project and give other kids opportunities that she lacked growing up. Here, she talks about her journey through life and what is yet to come.

This week on IsraelCast, we spoke to the woman known affectionately as “the Queen of Kosher”- the effervescent Jamie Geller. Geller is the Founder and CEO of Kosher Network International, publisher of JoyofKosher.com, and the award-winning ‘Jamie Geller’s Joy of Kosher Magazine’. She’s the author of four cookbooks, including the wildly popular ‘Quick and Kosher Recipes from the Bride Who Knew Nothing.” Chances are you’ve seen her on television shows, newspapers and magazines all over the world. Before she found her way around the kitchen, Jamie graduated Magna Cum Laude - Phi Beta Kappa from NYU in just three years,. She then enjoyed an illustrious career as an award winning TV producer and marketing executive. Jamie and her husband have six kids and now reside in Jerusalem.