September 2004

Would you shake hands with a Jew?

MEMRI reproduces excerpts from a show on Saudi Arabia’s IQRA TV Channel, featuring “streeters” where Saudis were asked how they felt about Jews. No. This is not another Ali G / Borat thing….

Watching the Daily Show with John Stewart?

Good move smarty pants! According to the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey, viewers of Late Night with John Stewart scored 16% higher than people who did not watch late-night comedy, in…

Accredited bloggers at this year’s GA?

… there aint any. Yesterday in New York, the United Jewish Communities (UJC) issued a press release announcing that the 2004 General Assembly will be held in Cleveland on the 14-17 of November….

Mobester, do you need some help?

Jewschool reports: Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/httpd/vhosts/jewschool.com/httpdocs/page.php on line 6 Unable to connect to SQL server! Moby man, let me know if you need a hand or a more reliable server….

Clerics Clash at Christ’s Crucifixion Church

There seems to have been a heck of a rumble at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed to be the site of both Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Witnesses described a wild scene…

Gratuitous Nazi Reference Watch

Phil Spector, indicted today for the murder of Lana Clarkson, said this outside the court afterwards: “The actions of the Hitler-like DA and his storm-trooper henchmen are reprehensible, unconscionable and despicable.” Dumbass. If…

Dudes! Sign up for your Free Trip to Israel NOW!

Seriously. Do it now. I’ve been working with birthright Israel trip provider IsraelExperts for a while now. The thing that saddens me the most is when people, eager to go to Israel, call…

Fatwa

It’s embarrassing when our clerics, err, rabbis start announcing fatwas. I mean, how are we supposed to criticize Iranian clerics for wanting Salman Rushdie murdered when our clerics, oops, I meant to say…

Dvora, the Bulgarians and the Shoah

What would you do? Dvora, the matchmaker from JMatch once told me about one of the lasting residual effects she continues to experience after having survived the holocaust. “When I walk down the…

Spock grooves to Jewish music

American Jewish Music From the Milken Archive With Leonard Nimoy Leonard Nimoy got a gig doing 13 two-hour episodes on WFMT Radio Network stations and XM Satellite Radio. During these episodes, Nimoy will…

Walmart: “We have made a business decision…”

Walmart makes a business decision to stop selling The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Duh?? Am I missing something here or what? The story is that Walmart, after receiving a barrage of…

They’re here… best Jewish shirts ever!

Check out these sweet, sweet shirts… The ultimate Jewish apparel, right on time for, err… Yom Kippur. Shmatas.com. Whenever you buy a Jewlicious shirt, we get a piece of the action too! Anyhow,…

Mournfully, Great!

People have sent me emails wishing me a ‘Happy Yom Kippur’ and I’m just not sure how to respond…

Who’s doing what on Yom Kippur?

And why do we care? Well Jewschool already covered baseball so we know that LA Dodger Shawn Green will miss one of the two games that he is scheduled to be playing on…

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get away from the scary Hassid! In what is easily one of the most bizarre of all Jewish rituals, you might be…errr…lucky enough to catch a kapparot ceremony before Yom Kippur. What…

The Last Sin Is Always the Sweetest

Just in case you were a little too good this year and can’t think of anything to repent for , worry no longer. If you have tonight free in Jerusalem, there’s still time…

4 Wheeled Accomplices of Terror

Driving for Jihad In light of the recent terror attack near my old digs in French Hill, as well as the latest outrage at the settlement of Morag in Gaza, it might behoove…

Bombing

Sorry to kill the birthright Buzz, but unfortunetly, we had another bombing. A bus stop on French Hill in Jerusalem. Details here Read.

Go to Israel for free this winter

You know the routine – if you are between the ages of 18 and 26, Jewish, and have never been to Israel on an organized peer trip, then you can go this winter…

Stupidest. Column. Ever.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach brings sycophancy to a new low So Rabbi Boteach wrote a column that I read on Jewsweek called The U.S. of J: Is America the new chosen people? stating that…

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Osem Soup Almonds **

**But were afraid to ask… From Jewlicious’ gastronomy department somewhere in the south of France, a question: Ever see a bowl of tiny yellow squares next to the soup at your local kibbutz…

Jewschool is down!

Stoopid complicated server thingy keeps faithful away from beloved blog Blame it on Plesk, blame it on extraterrestrials, whatever… but beloved blog Jewschool as well as all associated blogs (i.e. Rushkoff and ariella’s…

No wonder Faux-Mitzvahs are popular

Especially when the real thing is SO exciting! Hey, Today was really cool! Since Lizzy is Jewish and when Jewish People turn 13 they have BarMizfhas. I went to the the Church part…

Madonna, Israel, Kabbalah blah blah blah

Madonna blah blah blah, Israel, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv,blah blah blah. Western Wall, blah blah, bodyguards, blah, blah, blah. Esther. Blah. Paparazzi. Blah, blah. When does it end oh lawd! Pro-Palestinian protesters had planned…

Ono awards Vanunu $50k Peace prize

John Lennon’s whacky widow Yoko Ono, 71, recently announced that she will be awarding Mordechai Vanunu a $50,000 peace prize. The LennonOno prize, was founded in 2002 in John Lennon’s memory. “Vanunu was…

Stupidest Idea Ever: 5 Million of them in fact…

I can’t fault these Danes for their good intentions and all, but talk about NAIVE. Lebanon’s Daily Star has a detailed and interesting article about an exhibition that is going on now at…

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