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Don’t Forgive Carter
It was widely reported in the press, that Carter asked for forgiveness from the Jews, and I don’t forgive him. The former president, and master of distortions, wrote to JTA: “As I would have noted at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but wh...
Life In The Ghetto
Pictures from Palestine Today From today’s Wall Street Journal Op-Ed“Despite all the misreporting about a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as a result of Israel’s blockade, the flow of aid support from Israel to the na...
French Action Against Hamas
For those unaware, Hamas runs a television station known as al-Aksa TV. This station is used by Hamas for propaganda purposes, including children’s TV shows which incite violence against and hatred of Israeli and Jews, in general. One of its mo...
1 Million Drops: Israel Charity Initiative
Israel Charity Initiative?? Doesn’t sound very sexy does it? But it so is! 1 Million Drops is a kind of Web 2.0 Micro giving charitable project that is modest in its scope but revolutionary in its implementation. Seriously. OK allow me to expla...
An Archaeological Hannukah
75 inch tall menorah at Beit Shearim Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by presenting yet ano...
Old Yaffo Shabbat
Old Yaffo Yaffo Hanging Ball Igor Berezovsky took these lovely images. Shabbat Shalom!...
A Bracha For Tarantino
On the set of Basterds, the cast with filmmaker Tarantino I gave Quentin Tarantino a blessing. Let me explain. I had never gone to see a Tarantino film. I had only seen clips. But I couldn’t pass up a chance to see Inglourious Basterds at a private...
Tweeting Tarantino
Tweets in reverse chronological order during Q&A after Jewish community screening of Inglourious Bastards, hosted by The LA Jewish Journal, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. Q&A With: Lawrence ...
The Palestinians Believe They Have Israel in the Corner
The boxing match continues and Israel is about to get bloodied. As I’ve written in the past few weeks, the Palestinians believe the timing is propitious for them to pursue their endgame. I believe they think their endgame – the knock-ou...
Oh Syria!
“Resistance of the occupation is a national duty and to support it is a moral and legal duty…and an honor which we are proud of,” said Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assad at the Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islam...
Dancing for Richard Pratt
Last Friday, friends and relatives of Australian Jewish Philanthropist Richard Pratt gathered in Jaffa, to commemorate in words, music and dance, the life of a man who had touched so many. Pratt, who passed away last April, was Australia’s 4th...
Richard Goldstone – Dore Gold
Today at 5:00 PM Brandeis University hosted Richard Goldstone and Dore Gold to discuss the Goldstone Report. Well Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN and probably one of the primary intellectuals whose ideas influence Israel’...
Jerusalem is the new Jerusalem!
Tomorrow evening, just before sunset, Jerusalem will be the site of what may very well be a very momentous occasion – Rabbi Sharon Brous’ Los Angeles Ikar Congregation is opening a little annex here in Jerusalem. Sort of. Rabbi Brous, who...
Al-Qaeda Linked Group Threatens Israel
According to CNN, Al-Shabab has issued a threat against Israel. Al-Shabab is the terrorist group which controls much of Somalia. It has known links to Al-Qaeda and many of its affiliate terrorist groups. Al-Shabab leaders have stated, “We will ...
Foto Op: Clinton in Israel
Secretary Clinton with PM NetanyahuU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in a press briefing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem October 31, 2009, and discussed the .. fish she caught in the Dead Sea?...
Lebanon Launches Latest Offensive in Hummus War Against Israel
Hummus: The only kind of war the Lebanese can excel at? As far as most wars go, this one’s kind of lame. The soldiers wear chef outfits instead of camouflage, the slogans are hollow (”Come and fight for your bite, you know you’re ri...
Russian Family Murdered in Rishon LeTziyon
Did you hear about this horrible murder of Russian Israeli restaurant owners and their whole family? Six members of the Oshrenko family were found dead Saturday: Revital, 3, and Netanel, 4 months; their parents, Tatiana, 28, and Dmitry, 32; and the...
The Tel Aviv Mural Project
I love random acts of whimsy! Watch this Leadel.net produced video about a 300 square meter painted on the side of the Jewish Agency building in Tel Aviv painted by a group of teenage students from the Meyerhoff Art Education Center. For those of y...
Me, Champagne, and Jabotinski
So here I am on a Saturday night, drinking some champagne, just for the heck of it. I’m Facebook stalking pretty much everyone I know, when I come across this: Now I’m a huge fan of Ze’ev and he was actually on my Hot Dead Guys L...
Rishon LeTziyon wishes you a Happy Sukkot!
It really does (right-click to enlarge)....
We Thrill Ya from Qalqilyah
I’m way too cool to embarass myself on Jewlicious. So I did it on my blog! Come read and mock my mock Israeli-Mossad-spy thriller, based on Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon....
Example of Israeli Apartheid 2
Here we go again… Everyone should boycott Israeli Academia. Uh... except for me.We already brought you one excellent example of Israeli apartheid and now it is time to bring all of our readers yet another hideous example of Israeli apartheid. ...
Al Jazeera reports on Netanyahu’s UN Speech
The way the Arab world views Netanyahu’s speech. It is worth seeing how this speech was reinterpreted for the Arab world. They draw comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust, and describe the UN as the body that created the Jewish state in th...
Where should Gaddafi pitch his tent?
He used to be such a hottie. Funny what time and 30+years of bitter, gutwrenching hostility can do to a man, habibi. [Sidenote: for a COMPLETE list of Middle Eastern hottie/dead leaders, see this link.] I am concerned. Muammar Gaddafi doesn̵...
Interview with Israeli Chef Vered Guttman
As you may or may not remember (probably not because it’s not like I’ve already been a contributor here for a couple months and have pretty much told you about my life history in order to give you a better understanding of the Suffering o...
New Year in Israel with Benji Lovitt
Benji Lovitt – who entertained us at Jewlicious Festival 5.0 – in his latest hilarious video for the New Year....
Marc Garlasco, Human Rights Watch’s leading critic of Israel, is a Nazi Fetishist
The lead investigator for Human Rights Watch, the one that accused Israel of intentionally bombing kids on a beach, and using phosphorous as a weapon, and other Gaza war-crimes has been discovered to be an unapologetic, a world-class collector of Naz...
Goldstone Commision Released
The Goldstone Commission Report, or more properly the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories Report on the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, has been released....
The Daily Lie – One of The Toronto Film Festival “Protest” Letter Authors Opines and Whines
You know, it is getting pretty tiresome to read these jokers. The twists and turns of misrepresenting history, the deceit or at least serious confusion involved in claiming they are the victims of some insidious campaign, the mysterious link to Pales...
Back from Israel. Quick, TaglitforTwo, sponsor our next flight!
A while ago, I revealed that Mr. B and I would be going on a mini-Birthright for him. Except it wasn’t free. Because it’s kind of awkward for married people to go on Birthright. Since I’ve already been, and I’m not a big...
