Is God Made of Atoms?
Well, some of you may recall the last time my son stumped me with a complex question. He did it to me again today when he asked me whether God is made of…
California Nightmare
Boobs Not Bombs Dicks Not Death Seriously, what would we do without California on a slow news day? I mean I’ve been out there a few times of late – there was the…
Scarlett Johansson’s Near Accident
An LA billboard promoting Johansson’s latest movie, The Island contained a photo of her cleavage that had been so digitally “enhanced” that when she drove past it she nearly got into an accident….
Shabbat Shalom to All
May the rest be pleasant and the food reminiscent of a lovely and innocent childhood.
Ratzinger Strikes Back
The Holy See cannot take lessons or instructions from any other authority on the tone and content of its statements. Muffti is sort of sorry he ever posted the first story on this;…
Do You Take These Women to be your Lawfully Wedded Wives?
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s Amoré! There are lots of bad things to say about Hamas. But one can’t deny their romantic side. Last night, Hammas…
Michael meets the Moon People.
No, I didn’t go to an Israeli ’60s hack sci-fi convention and meet famed author Stanton A. Coblentz (although that probably would have been interesting). And I did not actually, per se, visit…
JQS: The Other White Meat
As you might imagine, I am a tad concerned about Jewish continuity.I mean I write for Jewlicious after all, and I appreciate having a nice large and vibrant audience. Well, I noticed that…
The disengagement tragedy no one is talking about
At the risk of sounding petty, ever since they first announced disengagement I’ve been dreading the day the lettuce finally dries up. The main industry in Gush Katif has been in agriculture. Alei…
Let’s End This, Now…
All this arguing about whose Judaism is more authentic is giving me shpilkes. And not the good kind. In all the movements– Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and everywhere in between–there are people who are…
Ratzinger Neglects To Mention a Certain Country
Muffti doesn’t really think this is a big deal, but after reading an editorial at Jpost, he thought he’d post quickly. On Sunday, the Pope had the following to say about terrorism: These…
Will Your Grandchildren be Jewish?
The figures are pretty straightforward. Start with 100 Orthodox Jews, 100 Modern Orthodox Jews, 100 conservative Jews, 100 Reform Jews and 100 Unaffiliated Jews. Extrapolate on the basis of intermarriage rates and average…
Good Thing Judaism isn’t Weird Like Those Pagan Religions…
We earlier reported on Rabbi Yossi Dayan’s intention to use voodoo use pulsa denura, literally meaning ‘lashes of fire’, on Ariel Sharon. The ceremony took place last Thursday at the grave of Shlomo…
Prince Charming: Found
And he was in New York, all the time. Can you imagine that? A single Jewish man in New York? Manhattan, even…and we never met… Ari Goldman, 34, who lives in Manhattan, where…
Oh Those Feygelahs!
Last night was the annual Divers/Cité Gay Pride parade in Montréal. Participating in the parade, for the third year in a row, was a group called Feygelah representing the local Jewish LGBT community….
That? Oh, That’s My New Hitler
“Honey, where should I put the flowers?” “In that yellow vase in the corner…you know, over by the Hitler.” Yet another reason to blame Canada–now an auction house in (gasp!) Montreal (sacre bleu!)…
Palestinians Fail to Heed Settlers Lessons
Persist in their Murderous Ways IsraelReporter.com presents us with yet another Gaza-cam Picture of the day. In this photo, the killers of Dov and Rachel Kol kibbitz around at a press conference prior…
Gross Out Department: Dayan’s Eye Patch for Sale
Mmmm, imagine having that sweaty piece of black leather all to yourself. Yes indeed, the trademark eyepatch of Moshe Dayan is on EBay and the price is set at $75,000. Moti Sander, a…
Who Isn’t Going to Claim they Did it?
A second group has laid claims to responsibility for the bombing at Sharm al-Sheikh: the Mujahideen of Egypt. They offer tough words on a web site: We announce to the whole world that…
Settlers teach Palestinians limits of Israel’s forces
Well, well, well, after years of enjoying the support and protection of the state of Israel and of the IDF in particular, the settlement movement has decided to teach others a number of…
Plea For Help: Liver Donor Desperately Needed
This is not a joke. This is not a hoax. This is a real person, a 31-year-old woman from Long Island, who is engaged to be married in October, and who led a…
There Goes the Neighbourhood
Nayef Hawatmeh announced Thursday that after the withdrawl is complete, he’ll relocate from Damascus to Gaza. Hawatmeh, you may recall, is head of the Marxist-Leninist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP),…
Sulha Part II – adventures in cynicism
I went out to the Sulha for a few hours yesterday, the Utopian peace fest between Jews and Arabs. It was pretty much as I expected; a bunch of Jews struggling to come…
TomKat, Brangelina, Joe’s Shloshim Beard
I know, I’m part of the media. But the media is relentless in its attention to minutiae. First, we had the insanity of that whole Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes circus; then the Brad/Jen breakup…
“Jewish Week” Article Inspires Film About Getting a Get (Jewish Divorce)
According to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: The Get is a digitally shot film “about the struggles some Jewish women endure when they are unable to receive a divorce from their husbands,” which…
