We Have Talented Writers Who Live in Israel
…but it was left to the Muffti to post this? Israel held it’s largest ever war drill today. Maybe the Israelis would like to give an account of how it went, what happened?…
Gordon St. and the Beach in Tel Aviv Shabbat
The beautiful image is captured by Shay Tal. Not much to report this week. The Israelis removed some outposts to show Obama they respect him. Abbas came to visit Obama and proceeded to…
Shavu-what?
Neither my husband ( henceforth Mr. B) or I are particularly religious. Because of the Great Soviet Educational Anti-Semitic and Atheist Experiment, we both know close to nothing about Judaism and sheitls, shiduchim,…
Abbas Confirms Olmert Gave an Insanely Generous Offer
The Washington Post reports that Mahmoud Abbas, the man who is president of the Palestinian National Authority and who once wrote a doctoral dissertation denying the Holocaust, received an exceedingly generous peace offer…
God’s Top Ten – and Mine…
Have you ever considered WWYHDTM (What Would You Hand Down the Mountain?) I had some thoughts on the matter in honor of Shavuot… http://the-word-well.com/gods-top-ten-wwyhdtm.html Those are my Top Ten. What are yours?
Second student reprimanded by York U denies any wrongdoing
Jesse Zimmerman is one of the two students who were reprimanded by York University for their behavior on Feb. 11, 2009 when a group of students had to escape to the Hillel office…
Kol Hakavod, Alysa Stanton!
Alysa Stanton will be ordained in June by Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati as the first female African-American Rabbi. Yay! On being the first? She says: “If I were the 50,000th, I’d still…
Yuriy for Oslo!
What does it take to win the Eurovision Song Contest? Apparently, the most important ingredients for success are cosmopolitanism (covering the voting-bases in most countries participating in the contest), not being afraid of…
Do you know where your nearest bomb shelter is located?
If you live in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, that’s a question that you should answer, and in the affirmative. Last Wednesday, 20 May 2009, Iran launchedthe Sejil 2, its “longest-range solid-propellant…
Incoming York University Student President Reprimanded, Fined and Unaplogetic
So far we have a number of posts about the incident in Feb., 2009 when identifiably Jewish students were blocked inside the university’s Hillel office while a crowd outside chanted hysterically and intimidatingly…
The Ahmadinejad Song
Here for your listening and laughing pleasure… Produced by That1Shmuck.com. Any similarity to Jewish Girl Blues is totally, completely coincidental. Really.
More on York University
UPDATE: On May 22, the York University Osgoode Hall’s associate dean, Janer Mosher, issued two reprimands , one to the incoming president of the York Federation of Students, Krisna Saravanamuttu, who also received…
York University Promotes the End of Israel
[UPDATE AT END OF ARTICLE] When I first saw this press release below from B’nai Brith in Canada, “‘York University conference questioning Israel’s right to exist an exercise in anti-Zionist propaganda,’” I was…
Rebecca Rubin: Yiddishe American Girl
American Girl, those dolls that real-life Russian Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Settlement (Odessa) could never afford when I was growing up, has added a Russian Jewish doll to its collection, no…
Jerusalem tweetUP! tomorrow. Yay!
Yup. No speeches. No pitches. Just a great opportunity (starting at 8 pm) to meet cool and interesting people in an appropriate setting conducive to friendly networking. Free wine (while supplies last) and…
Helping Yemenite Jews Emigrate to America instead of Israel
The Jewish Agency in Israel is in an uproar. The agency, responsible for furthering Zionism’s goal by bringing Jewish immigrants to Israel, is outraged by the decision of the American UJC to bring…
Dad, who was the third person on the planet?
Some of you have experienced the joyous questions my son asks and to which I have no answers. To remind you, we have so far encountered: Which came first, dinosaurs or Adam and…
Moritz’s Microcosm
Moritz is a tomcat. He pretty obviously is. As a good tomcat, he’s aware of the things going on around him, has got a sound grasp of his role in the universe and…
Armon Hanatziv and Jewish Education Shabbat
Yair took this photo of nighttime Jerusalem as seen from Armon Hanatziv where the beautiful Jerusalem promenade overlooks the city (I lost the link and don’t know Yair’s last name, so if you…
Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof – Pursue Justice
The United States is one of the few countries that permits the life sentencing of juveniles without the possibility of parole (JLWOP). According to Human Rights Watch, 2,380 people in this country are…
Successful Jewish Tweetup in DC!
If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to while I’ve been not posting stories about life from Ze Mother Country, I’ve been scheming. There are no Jews in DC. Or, at least, none…
Envy and Celebration Last Night in Battery Park City
The Jewish guy did not win American Idol. The Israelis did not win at Eurovision. And the Norwegian Eurovision winner, although born in Minsk, and though he starred in Fiddler on the Roof…
May All The Terrorists Be This Incompetent…
At least these guys make it looks hard. Four men from Newburgh, New York attempted to bomb a jewish community centre, a synagogue and had the rather more ambitious plan of knocking military…
Jerusalem Day
Well, in case you thought Bibi Netanyahu reads Jewlicious and was convinced by my suggestion that Jerusalem can be divided with the Old City becoming an international protectorate, think again. Today he announced,…
The award in the category “Funniest male single J-Blog” goes to…
… Suddenly Single. I’ve just discovered the abovementioned blog over at JC. What by its name at first glance just appeared to be yet another single’s e-column quickly proved to be some of…
Jewish guy loses Idol thing in major upset
This is based on news articles and I have not seen any of this show, I really can’t stand Idol. As Danielle Berrin wrote this AM in the Jewish Journal: here’s Lambert, 27,…
