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And the latest company to use the men-are-idiots theme is… Hanes! Hat tip: Glenn Sacks . Earlier: When Men are Portrayed as Idiots . Read More »
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Peres’s extracurricular clinchers
Sarah HonigAnother Tack/JPost12 March ‘10So who says you can’t accurately predict the future? admittedly, clairvoyance isn’t realistic in all circumstances, but in some instances not to sense what’s about to occur is to willfully avoid reality. In given situations what threatens to unfold is obvious. Read More »
Resources on P
I am looking for articles/monographs/intros that would provide an up to date entry into the world of P, particularly on Leviticus and Ezekiel. If you have read anything exciting and important in these areas, please let me know! Thanks. . Read More »
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Bring back that new oleh feelin’
Way back when the oldest Shiputzim child was in 8 th grade, YZG and I were frequently asked how the Great High School Search was going. Our standard response was that we sort of felt like we were new olim all over again. I recall that one Israeli acquaintance was particularly taken aback by our answer. Read More »
Who does Mitchell the shithead think he is?
Yeah Mitchell dude, that is the bird of peace leaving a gift on your head. Seriously, who does this guy think he is? Here’s a newsflash, we are not the 51st state of America and you have no, zero, zip right to tell the Palestinians or anyone else what we will or won’t do in our own country, much less the capitol of our country. Read More »
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Mitchell promises ‘Palestinians’ no building in ‘east’ Jerusalem during ‘proximity talks’
London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Saturday that US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell has promised the ‘Palestinians’ that Israel will not build in ‘east’ Jerusalem during the ‘proximity talks. Read More »
Meet the Jewish Gun Nuts
The Baltimore Sun reports : A Maryland senator and delegate are the targets of a flier that attacks them as “bagel brain Jews” for their support of pending firearms legislation in the General Assembly and accuses them of pursuing “racist policies to destroy your gun rights.” Sen. Brian E. Read More »
Hmmm….
Shavua tov – a good week to everyone.Just before the Sabbath, Lebanon claimed that IDF tanks had crossed their border. The IDF denied it. Lebanese media reported that two IDF tanks crossed the border and took up positions on a hill overlooking the Wazani River.The Israeli army denied the reports. Hmmm. Read More »
Breaking News: Jews Are Disliked in Muslim Countries
The Pew Research Center has just published its latest survey of public opinion in the Muslim world. The results ain’t pretty: In the predominantly Muslim nations surveyed, views of Jews are largely unfavorable. Nearly all in Jordan (97%), the Palestinian territories (97%) and Egypt (95%) hold an unfavorable view. Read More »
Debating the Holocaust
For some decades the consensus has been that the greatest calamity to befall the Jewish people has been the Nazi Holocaust, in which six million Jews met their cruel demise. Therefore, if you want to make a Jew happy, tell him that far fewer than six million Jews died in that holocaust. Surely, once you . Read More »
Ode to a working freelance writer…
I am a freelance writer – oh how I love to write Stringing words together, morning, noon and night It took me quite a while, to give this path a go Afraid I’d never make it, and that they’d all say no I started very slowly, beginning with a blog Years of dreary office work had left me in a . Read More »
Selçuklu Evi eco-ish Boutique Hotel in Turkey
Can Selçuklu-Evi claim eco-accolades? It is important to apply eco-friendly labeling carefully. This is especially true of the tourism industry that is often guilty of green-washing potential patrons to lure them to their site. Read More »
Accounting Woes
Some financial dramz the past two weeks. First I got that crazy letter from the Israel Tax Authority, saying i owed 3900 shekels ($768) and that they were authorized to bust into my house and take whatever they wanted, approximating that value. Read More »
Who is leading on US Mideast policy?
Senator John Kerry goes out of his way to make excuses for Bashar al-Assad (AFP photo) Tony BadranNOW Lebanon09 March ‘10 Posted before Shabbat In the past week, a new element was introduced into the unfolding and cacophonous saga of the Obama administration’s new Syria policy, namely the appearance of Senator John Kerry. Read More »
The Jewish Agency And Jewish Identity
Looking for a controversy, many in the press — in Israel and here at home — have joined the hand-wringing chorus suggesting that as a result of reduced allocations from, in the main, the federation system in North America, the Jewish Agency will now, as one headline screamed, “Promote Identity Over Aliyah. Read More »
Random Israeli Asscrack
I’ve blogged about it before – there is entirely too much asscrack on display in this country. It’s not just the contstruction workers and Britney wannabes. This picture comes from…..…..a waiter at the nice (!!)restaurant we went to on our camping trip. Read More »
BB Dramz
Not again! I’ve been mobile-golden for a while now, having put the last of the BlackBerry in Israel problems behind me last August. But the Bold 9000 I bought used from another Oleh back in December has had trackball problems since I got it. Read More »
Purim TLV Beeri Tweetup
Two weeks ago, I went to my first Tel Aviv Beeri Tweetup . A tweetup is a gathering of like-minded people that’s organized via Twitter, but happens IRO (in real life). My new friend Yael Beeri organizes them (that’s why they’re called Beer i Tweetups), and they happen at a cool brewery in Tel Aviv called The Dancing Camel . Read More »
Honey, I’m Home!
Petey made the jump from having free-reign overnight to having the complete run of the apartment when I’m away – in no time at all. Really! I can leave him loose and be away from the apartment for 3-4-5 hours at a time, and when I come home, he’s not had any accidents in the house or chewed anything up. It’s amazing. Read More »
Made me laugh.
Published in The New Yorker 03/15/2010 by Mick Stevens. Made me laugh. Totally Tilo (our 4 week old son). Read More »
What Does a Trade Publisher do to Create a Best Seller?
After my last post many asked why Wiley my publisher isn’t doing all the work with their resources. They have limitations as well. They have over 100 books to market this year and like any big company they have to streamline their process to stay profitable. Read More »
Let’s Go Camping!
Forgive me, Father, it’s been two weeks since my last post. Two Fridays ago, I was slammed w/ mid-ramp up of a PR campaign for a new client. And last Friday, I went…..c a m P in g ! Yoda Jeremy and Samadar get married in ten days, so we did a weekend camping/hiking trip as a Bachelor Party weekend, minus the strippers and cocaine. Read More »
Eat Foul, be happy!
sent by Clement Dassa Eat your heart out… to all those countries that are still debating how to reduce the Global Gas Emissions. Egypt was the first country to take important measures for climate change. Read More »
Latest Review and Report from the Rehearsal Room
Two at once here, and that’s how it’s gonna stay, as ANDY WARHOL: GOOD FOR THE JEWS enters its 2nd weekend with us while IN DARFUR completes its 2nd week of rehearsal. So first the round up. Read More »
Locked in
. To find animal photo-ops for Camera-Critter Sunday I sometimes have to resort to pet stores, like this one in the mall..So many pretty little birds under lock and key . . .. Read More »
El Paipero filmed in Tangier
sent by Vanessa Paloma We filmed this video (a parody on fertility from Northern Morocco’s Jewish women’s oral traditions) in Tangier in October 2009. Part was at the Tangier American Legation Museum and another at La Tangerina in the Casbah. Read More »
Green Art Gallery Opens Exhibition of New Works by Artist Hakim GhazaliGreen Art Gallery Opens …
Hakim Ghazali, “Casted MetaI I”, 2010. 170 x 80 cm. Photo: Courtesy Green Art Gallery. DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Moroccan artist Hakim Ghazali, entitled “For the love of Noon”. There will be an opening reception on Saturday March 13th in the presence of the artist. Read More »
That’s *Professor* Abandoning Eden to you
I accepted the assistant professorship position. Future, here we come! Read More »
Israël boucle la Cisjordanie de crainte de violences
De jeunes Palestiniens masqués s’apprêtent à lancer des pierres aux soldats israéliens, le 12 mars 2010 à Jerusalem-est (Photo Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Israël a bouclé vendredi la Cisjordanie occupée pour 48 heures de crainte de violences en réaction à la nouvelle impulsion donnée par les autorités israéliennes à la colonisation. Read More »