Forbidding Orthodox Women Rabbis, and a Circumcision Comedian Celebration
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Newz Tidbitz
As another week comes to a close, we glean the news for timbits of interest. The most urgent story of the week comes from Reuters and The Jakarta Globe. The Chief of Police…
Obama Doesn’t Get Jerusalem
President Obama’s attitude toward Jerusalem betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the city, argues Mort Zuckerman in the WSJ. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Thanks to a deadlock engineered by the U.S. government,…
Jews: 4000 Years in 4 Minutes
Oy va viral video voy… God as a character from Monty Python? Moses as a California surfer dude? Goliath as Apu on the Simpsons? Judeans with cowboy accents? Israeli viral content agency KetaKeta…
Hareidi MC, Saadyah Tzvi
Shemspeed is excited to introduce the newest member of the fam, the multi-talented, young MC, Saadyah Tzvi. Saadyah beat boxes, raps & sings from the heart creating a blend of organic and real…
The Little Jewish Boy And The Soldier Reunited
This is a very moving story from The Detroit News about Abe Foxman and Rabbi Goldman We had the pleasure of spending Shabbos with Rabbi Goldman in 1997. In the fall of 1945,…
Shmulik Kraus Songs
Okay, the first one is weird because it’s Plastelina remixing Arik Lavi’s classic version of Shmulik Kraus’s Zeh Koreh (It Happens). The second one is Shmulik Kraus’s classic with Ilan Virtzberg who thinks…
Top Secret Jewlicious Plan B-Launch Party – The Recipes
De gustibus non est disputandum. (It’s Latin week at the ‘lish if you haven’t noticed yet.) A short trip planned to last four days ended up lasting twelve days. I’m back to my…
Yuri Foreman on Jimmy Kimmel Tonight
Will they fight? Jewlicious Festival presenter, and undefeated World Champ, Yuri Foreman, will make his network TV talk show debut tonight on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, tonight. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (April 29, 2010) —…
Isi Leibler on Martin Indyk – an astute editorial
I had been thinking to write a post about Martin Indyk and his anti-Israel op-ed that was close to mind-blowing. Alas, I never got around to it and I’m happy I didn’t because…
Richard Silverstein Continues to Spew Bullshit
Such Decrepitude! I know most of you don’t care about Richard Silverstein’s most recent screed against me, but… but… he called me mean!! And… and… he said I was jealous of him! So…
White House’s Hubris Not Limited To Israel – Just Ask The Whales
Research? Before a moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted 25 years ago, on average an estimated 38,000 whales were being killed each year. Since the moratorium, that number has dropped to about 1,240,…
Russian Shabbaton in New York
Really? Since when do we cover little shabbatons? I don’t know. Maybe I’m a mushball? Or maybe I remember all those times I stood outside the Russian consulate on Rue de la Montaigne…
Boobquake Causes Actual Earthquake??
Do fries go with that shake? It started last week when Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi stated that “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity…
Speaking of the bastards trying to grind people down
UCSD Next in the sights of the BDSD People After the Boycott and Divestment forces failed at Berkeley last week, where the student body president, Will Smelko, vetoed an initial resolution demanding divestiture…
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum: Do not let the bastards grind you down, Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a brilliant writer. Reading her work, there were countless times when I would stop just to reread a passage or two because the writing was so stunningly beautiful. My favorite…
Good editorial about the bigger picture regarding the South Park-Mohammed episode
From the NY Times: But there’s still a sense in which the “South Park” case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly…
Farewell to TEDxTelAviv
Well, that’s it. The conference is over, and I’ve finished with the updates. So, here is the last post about it. Over all, it was really quite fascinating. There were lectures about science,…
TEDxTelAviv – Update 4
Here’s the fourth and final update to the TEDxTelAviv conference. Martin Rappaport – “Fair Trade: An End to Exploitation” Martin Rapaport was a diamond guy, until he quit to industry after learning about…
Appropriate or inappropriate; antisemitic or kosher? The man who built the new American-trained Palestinian army tells a joke
This is National Security Adviser, General James Jones, the man who has built the 30,000 strong, American-trained Palestinian forces under the PA. It’s an ongoing project. He has always been viewed as adversarial…
TEDxTelAviv – Update 3.5
Here’s the second half of the third update. Haim Shafir – “The Paradox of Creativity” There are three types of creative action – changing a thing’s form or shape, adding, or subtracting. We…
TEDxTelAviv – Update 3
Just got out of the third session, and only have a few minutes until the next one. So, here’s a quick rehash of the third session, and your third update. Dave Levy Dave…
TEDxTelAviv-Update 2
We’ve just finished the second session, and are out for a lunch break. So, here’s your second update from TEDxTelAviv. Yair Tauman – “Serious Games” Yair Tauman is a game theorist. He discussed…
TEDxTelAviv – Update 1
So what is this day about? According to one of the hosts, TEDxTelAviv is about Israel as an (the) exporter of technology and ideas. Karen Tal – “Thriving on Turmoil” Karen Tal is…
Hamas: “We Will Make Gaza into Hollywood 2″
Hamas Schalit Video Just a reminder that Gilad Schalit has not been seen by even one Red Cross worker or anybody other than Hamas terrorists since his capture. We have seen a short…
Blogging Live from TEDxTelAviv
Its just about 9:30, and I’m here in Yafo, waiting for the event to begin. People seem to be genuinely excited to hear the speakers, and pleased to be a part of getting…
