As British Army leaves Northern Ireland, major lessons can be learned
The Brits have left Northern Ireland. They did so because the IRA put down their guns and bombs. The IRA quit when they had their backs against the wall. Palestinians could learn a…
Bustan Undergoing Changes
Bustan is a non-denominational, multi-cultural, independent NGO that focuses on the intersection between health and environment in Israel’s Negev desert region. Founded in 1999 by Devorah Brous, the organization is in the process…
The Nice Post
Okay, I have to say that these past couple of weeks have not been all that pleasant. Things always get a little adversarial when you express opinions and especially when those opinions take…
Jews to blame for Darfur?
This has been edited The killing and genocide in Darfur is not the result of the Muslim government or its militias, according a new and shocking report from Sudan’s Minister of Defense, Abdel…
L-I-N-D-S-A-Y (Career Suicide)
From one of the stars of Jewlicious Festival 3.0, in Long Beach, Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E. L-I-N-D-S-A-Y (Career Suicide)Add to My Profile | More Videos
Intermarriage and Gender, II
If the statistics are accurate, American Jewish men are not that much more likely to be married to non-Jews than are American Jewish women. We must then ask why ‘shiksa’ is a household…
Intermarriage and Gender
Cross-posted at WWPD. Despite a string of unparalleled scholarly and professional successes, Noah Feldman has been ostracized by his former yeshiva. He decided to pair off with a non-Jewish woman (specified as Korean-American,…
Ilana Donna: Pooped From Pop Culture
Not long ago I posted on New York’s hottest Jewish web video scenester Ilana Donna. This week, the Amaldo.com vlogger steps it up a notch this week with her pop culture round-up, once…
Sherwin Wine goes to Heaven
The following is an explanation of my post which appears below. The following is an explanation of my post which appears below. Sherwin Wine did not believe in Heaven. For that matter he…
The Plight of Agunot Continues Unabated
ROI 2007 Alumna Inbal Freund and her group held a demonstration today as part of the ICAR coalition for agunot and mesoravot get which includes 25 organizations. From Inbal at Mavoi Satum: The…
Separated At Birth?
No, the title of this post isn’t a cheeky reference to that Israellycool feature that pits images of two random international personalities side-by-side for facial comparison. It’s an homage to Scottish singer Paolo…
Shavuah Tov New York!
So whatcha gonna do tonight now that the Sabbath Queen has departed us for another week? Well, Shemspeed is about to launch some kind of bad ass (Jew?) Web site. In order to…
What do Egypt, Senegal, and Israel have in common?
Cross-posted at WWPD. It’s promising news that Sarkozy wants to bring Israel into the monde francophone. Given the rates of French Jewish emigration, someone’s bound to write a super-important Israeli novel in French,…
Post Tisha B’Av ramblings
We survived the three weeks but are not out the hot water. Israel continues to finance Hamas’s deposed Prime-minister. Polluted beaches keep swimmers out of the Kinneret. Divisive religious and political issues continue,…
Peace One Day
Imagine a day where armies pause from fighting, where warring factions have a day of truce, where aid and help can be transported into war-torn areas without fear, and you start to understand…
Pour out your heart like water
Get out of bed, cry out in the night; pour out your heart like water before the face of Hashem…(Eicha 2:19) Todays is a national day of mourning observed for nearly 2000 years…
Good Shabbes Chaim Potter.
Gawker takes a swipe at… Here’s the time line… the Associated Press ran a story last Tuesday about the release of the latest and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly…
Big Girls Don’t Cry, They Spit
Dame Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas got it right. Big Girls Don’t Cry But do they get piss poor drunk (for the umpteenth time), forget their lines onstage, proceed to say “F*ck!…
First Post-War Shabbat at Western Wall – the Kotel – 1967
Until I attended the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in San Diego, I had never heard of David Harris. There is a photography gallery on the top floor of the museum which includes the…
Three Years and 3000 Posts!
Over 1 million words and 43,800 comments… But you’ll have to wait until after Shabbat for a thoughtful post on that issue. Suffice it to say it’s been a trip. Thanks for putting…
Reboot Releases 4th Album
Folks Songs for Far Out Folk – Fred Katz Let me begin by stating the following – I don’t like Jazz. I don’t like Communists. I don’t like secular Jews, and I sure…
Michelle Citrin in Tel Aviv this Sunday
Just for the falafel of it? Singer / Songwriter Michelle Citrin, an ROI 2006 alumni, in Israel on a Livnot trip, will be performing in Tel Aviv on Sunday, July 22nd. Joining her…
Marty Beckerman on FOX
Who? Pay attention. I’m pretty sure this boy is going places. Marty, the author of Generation S.L.U.T.: A Brutal Feel-up Session with Today’s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace and a writer for magazines like Penthouse,…
19 Families control 34 percent of Israel’s income
This is not good for any society, but it should cause great worry in a small country such as Israel. This is a social fabric issue but also bad for politics where some…
Are there any professional Jewish golfers?
I figure if we could find a couple of professional Jewish golfers, we would have an excuse to cover Tiger Woods, just like everybody else. Imagine the traffic we would get. Here are…
