Beyond Advocacy on Hartman Blog
Thoughtful piece on how to direct our energies on Israel. Engaging Israel: Beyond Advocacy By Donniel Hartman(09/03/2010) Since Operation Cast Lead and the subsequent Goldstone Report, there has been an increasing sense that…
The Harmony Music Video
DeScribe’s Harmony EP just hit stores today! Pick up the CD/Download or the signed limited edition, visit Shemspeed Direct, here! If you want to grab it from iTunes, click here. Either way, check…
A Political Flip-Flop… for something new and different
President Barak Obama, prior to being elected, stated, at the 2008 AIPAC Conference, “Jerusalem will remain the capitol of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” (Watch his full speech here. This statement occurs…
An Official Response to Goldstone
It’s about time, no? The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, (the “Malam”), headed by Colonel (Res). Reuven Erlich, has released a 500 page report refuting the Goldstone Report. In a summary published…
Tel Aviv Storm Shabbat
Both photos taken by the talented Tommy Junger from his Tel Aviv-Jaffa collection. A rough week diplomatically for Israel. Fortunately, it remains a beautiful and vibrant place, despite setbacks. Shabbat shalom!!
Purimpalooza VII Rewind
Two weeks ago Los Angeles was rocked by a Purim party of Olympic proportions. JConnectLA, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and Atid – the young professional group of Sinai Temple and…
As predicted, Palestinians blame Israel, US blames Israel, Israel blames Israel and everybody begs the Palestinians for forgiveness
So I called the Israeli government amateurish and blamed them for recent debacles relating to Israel, especially the announcement of 1600 new units in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem, on the eve of new peace…
Rabbi Pruzansky, Orthopraxy, and Rabbahs
In this week’s issue of The Jewish Press, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky wrote, in his “The Rise of Orthopraxy”, that while Orthodoxy literally means “correct belief” but in actuality encompasses an entire range of…
Will The Jewish People Let This School Fail?
From Seth Cohen at Boundless Drama of Creation Blog – a discussion about a school in North Carolina that is 40k short and will close. The parents created the school from scratch in…
The Curse That Rocked Great Neck
Today I’m reposting my Jewish Week story for this week, because it is perhaps one of the craziest stories I have ever written. Enjoy, and feel free to leave comments below. The Curse…
What do Turkish Muslim Hackers want from me?
Early this morning I was rudely awakened by friends warning me that my personal blog was hacked. What? Was this a joke? Why would my new personal blog, which has a daily readership…
More Jewlicious 6.0 Music Appears on Youtube
Sort of a bootleggish video of one of the performers at the 6.0 Jewlicious Festival. This is Basya Schechter. Here is a bio of Basya.
This time, Israel did it to itself
Let’s review: US Vice President treats Israeli PM like dirt after Israeli government announces 1600 new residential units in east Jerusalem during his visit to begin long-postponed peace talks. UN’s Ban releases statement…
Corey corey corey… your name meant life.
Corey Haim, his name meant life, but it was a life filled with temptations. A Canadian born actor, and a son of an Israeli mother, Haim was a child star of film and…
It’s amateur hour again in the Netanyahu administration
According to Ynet, the idiotic, catastrophic and harmful announcement of the construction of 1600 new residential units in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on the day that the VP of the USA, Mr….
A Solid Ray Hanania Editorial
I don’t love Hanania, but I find that he’s necessary. There are few bridges between the two sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict and as a writer, I believe he has positioned himself as…
Peter Himmelman’s Furious World
Peter’s show, if you have not seen this, is an extension of Peter, a creative and talented genius. He has been producing this online live music variety show for almost a year. I…
Have some cake & be merry…
… and stop calling each other names. Please. Here’s a recipe for an easy torte that’ll give you about 20 servings.
It’s your day, ladies
In the long-standing Russian/Soviet/socialist tradition, don’t forget to wish your woman a Happy March 8th today-International Women’s Day. The best way to celebrate this holiday is by cleaning the house in order to…
Rewriting History… Again
The Turks are good at it; just take a look at Turkish history. The Sun language theory: all languages are descendant from an ancient Turkic language. The Turkish history thesis: all people are descendant from…
Oscars 2010: I Really Thought the Jews Would Do Better
Jew Controlled Media. Right. Israeli filmAjami lost the Best Foreign Film Oscar to some Argentinian flick. That’s 3-years in a row that an Israeli film got nominated and lost. I don’t think the…
I don’t know what to think
ck added: This video was produced by NJOP for its annual Shabbat Across America program which took place… last week. But don’t fret, NJOP, the leading “kiruv” organization of Modern Orthodox Judaism, has…
Stressing re: Cross-Dressing
“Please: Do *not* send pix. Really.” It’s been about a week since Purim, but I am still thinking about my broad shouldered and hairy (male) neighbors who, although upstanding citizens in general, year after…
