Days 6 and 7
Sorry I couldn’t get day 6 up on time – but given that you have to light your candles just before shabat, there just wasn’t enough time to upload the pic and write…
Sylvester Sameach!
When you have both a religious and secular New Years to celebrate, you need a way to not get them confused. So Israelis have taken to calling the January 1st New Year “Sylvester.”…
Hate Site of the Weak #6 – A Jewlicious Prank!
I’m sure it comes as no surprise to many that I am a bit of a geek. One of the more annoying manifestations of my geekiness relates to Jewlicious, wherein I sometimes obsessively…
Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt closed!
EU observers flee in fear! The Rafah crossing, between Gaza and Egypt has been effectively shut down. Not by Israeli forces, but by Palestinian police angered at unchecked lawlessness in the areas administered…
It’s a war
Today, another Palestinian suicide bomber died. He killed himself early because he was stopped by soldiers on his way to attack a festivity where there would have been many children in attendance. Jewish…
5 nights down – 3 to go!
Here we are – fifth day of Chanukah. Nothing really outrageous happenned today. I stayed up real late last night working while sipping crazy Israeli melted chocolate. I guess I am kind of…
The Jewlicious Media Blitz of December 2005
Or at least, that is how it shall be known in the annals of history…the week that Jewlicious co-founders became media whores darlings… First up, chronologically, is the Gawker and Jewish Week reportage…
Religious Zionism makes it to 1999.
In the wake of last summer’s disengagement from Gaza, various Israeli media outlets were full of sociologists expounding on the psychological damage dealt to the religious Zionist movement by the failure, or at…
Conservative Catholics Get Comedy Central to pull South Park Episode?
My G*d! Is nothing sacred? The season finale of South Park, titled Bloody Mary involved a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding out its ass. Pope Benedict XVI then pays a visit in…
4th Night of Chanukah
Happy 4th night of Hanukkah. To hell with style guides. I’ll spell it any damn way I please. Today was fun-o-ramma for ck! I ate Ethiopian with Harry, Michael and Laya. Then we…
Shoot down this trial balloon before it goes any further
So the Labor party under newly annointed leader Amir Peretz, a true dove in Israel’s Left, is floating the idea that their new platform will include the “Hong Kong Principle” as one of…
Chanukah: 3rd Night
Third night of Hanukkah! Yay! So it seems it’s open season on the Maccabees. Some claim the miracle of the oil never happenned because it’s not mentioned at all in the Books of…
Who Says Google Isn’t Concerned About Israeli Security…
Google announced that they’re going to limit the resolution of aerial photos of certain parts of Israel, to protect any areas that might house military installations: Google currently offers satellite photos of eight…
Ha-Blogs im ha-Golan.
Mobius, Michael and Krucoff make a death-defying, ear-popping journey from Masada to the West Bank to Tverya to Majdal Shams. Krucoff and I lay claim to the Golan Heights. In an unprecedented extension…
Heeb Party
Muffti wrote up a post on this, but then for some reason that Muffti can only blame hashem for, it got lost. So here’s an abridged version. Muffti was going to take Xmas…
On the 2nd Night of Chanukah!
… Esther sent to me … Tonight we lit 2 candles, or seven if we followed beit Shamai instead of beit Hillel. They say that when the messiah comes, we will all follow…
First Hanukkah Candle!
At Chateau Laybecca, Jerusalem Well, it’s the first day of Hanukkah, or Chanukah or whatever it is you want to call it. I hope you all lit candles and are eating oily treats,…
Hate Site of the Weak #5
The Altar of Unholy Blasphemy aren’t out to expel anyone from a country or kill anyone. At least as far as Muffti can tell. These guys may qualify as a hate site by…
What’s “Happening”? Christmas’s International Culture
When I was in Israel, the gift store Happening (on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem was known for its overpriced gifts, funny/shmaltzy posters about Israelis, mylar balloons, crazy greeting cards and postcards, and,…
Munich: the love child of strange bedfellows
Steven Spielberg gives a pretty in depth interview to Roger Ebert about his no-win situation making “Munich”. Indeed, when opening up the Middle East for discussion you often get attacked from all sides….
Shabbat Shalom
Here, this is better than the Bin Laden hottie. Pic of a Jerusalem sunset taken by Joe Aminoff. Shabbat shalom, folks.
Muffti isn’t Sure Whether This is Funny or Sad
Check out this hottie: The woman, Wafah Dufour, has a rather infamous extended family, her father being the half-brother of Al-Quaida Head Honcho Osama Bin Laden. Wafah, a Californian born, American-Values-embracing budding pop…
Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah to you!
Good grief. How about we start a war against Chrismahanukwanzakah?
Endangered birthright?
Is birthright Israel in danger? From this tag-team Charles Bronfman/Michael Steinhardt letter in this week’s NY Jewish Week, it seems to be, as the two philanthropists charge the American Jewish community to step…
