Is this evidence that UC San Diego’s MSA beats UC Irvine’s MSU at Jew Hatred
If you are an avid supporter of the Palestinians, one who has aligned himself or herself with groups like the MSU or MSA on a campus, read this post and watch the video…
She Sees Sea Shells at the Shanghai C-Shore
Hungering for some good Chinese in Israel Israeli in China? Then head to Shanghai where the Israel Pavilion has opened at the World Expo, a six month long expo which is expected to…
UC Irvine Hosts Racist Week Of Hate. Again.
UC Intifadah 2010 Edition-More Hate Than Ever Before UC Irvine Faculty speak out against hate on their campus in an open letter released today. In addition – the worst series of anti-Semitic posters…
Manuela Zoninsein and Agrigate: Recipient of ROI Community Grant
Recipients in focus If you follow this sort of thing, you would know by now that the ROI Community, a project of the Schusterman Foundation, announced last week the recipients of $500,000 in…
Israel joins the OECD
The Palestinians tried to scuttle this, even as they were demanding from Israel that it shouldn’t take any steps that might be considered offensive, lest they cancel the “proximity” peace talks. Anyway, Israel…
The cheesy post for May
No worries, I’m not going to post any poetry or love songs. Though, coming to think of it, May is the month of love over here, so I may add a few things…
Lebanon Cannot Disarm Hezballah: Too Busy Making Hummus
Silly Lebanese Who cares about concepts like “sovereignty” when Arab honor is on the line? So what if an armed force directed by Syria and Iran has made Lebanon its little bitch? Lebanon…
Lebanon launches attack on Israel
By pouring the contents of an incredibly huge bowl of hummus into the Jordan River? I’m not sure what else anybody could be doing with more than eleven tons of hummus – other…
Waking Up and Smelling the Toasted Bagel in Waltham
Oh Waltham For decades, most American Jews have thought of Brandeis University as the historically Jewish university outside of Boston, the place to which the Jewish teens who were regional USY Presidents or…
Obama Set to nominate Elena Kagan as next Supreme Court Justice
…and Mike Myers coming this summer as voice of Shrek The Huffington Post has reported that Solicitor General and former Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan is set to be nominated to the Supreme…
Obama’s Charm Offensive, First Female Orthodox Rabbi Speaks Out, And Comedians on Jim Jones
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Hapoel Jerusalem Cheerleaders in Kerfuffle
Orthodox and Feminists Join Together See, it’s like this. Israel’s top basketball league decided that cheerleaders would be mandatory for every team. While teams like Maccabi Tel Aviv took to the ruling with…
Give That Get (Punk Style)
Shemspeed staff, Yishai Varon-Mizrahi stars in The Groggers, “Get” music video. …well, ‘stars’ is probably not the best term since he is the one who doesn’t want to give the “Get”, which is…
Mighty Morphin Israeli Ranger and Other News
Avigdor Arikha, an internationally renowned Israeli and French painter died at his home in Paris on last Thursday, the day after his 81st birthday. A Holocaust survivor, his works were a continuous search…
Spanish-Galician Clown Ivan Prado Denied Entry to Israel
No Clowns in Ramallah! Haaretz and the JTA reported that Spanish clown Ivan Prado had been deported from Israel late last month. He was planning on organizing a clown festival in Ramallah, but…
R.I.P. Max Palevsky
Computer technology pioneer and venture capitalist Max Palevsky, perhaps best-known for funding then-startup chipmaker Intel Corp., has died. He was 85. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle
El-Israel-The Taglit 10th Anniversary Project
Let’s Meet! As part of its 10th Anniversary, Taglit Birthright Israel is undertaking an unprecedented project aimed at introducing Taglit participants to a broader swath of Israeli society, while at the same time,…
Not your typical Jewish boy
When Jason Paul recently graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in communication, he says he attempted to pursue what he calls a more “convential” writing job — applying to a grand total…
Rabbi David Forman z”l – 1944-2010
Author, activist and founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, Rabbi David Forman, passed away on Monday in Dallas while awaiting a liver transplant. The Jerusalem Post reports: Forman founded Rabbis for Human Rights…
Jerusalem: A bridge to… ?
…Nowheresville I was walking in the neighborhood near Binyanei Haumah the other day when I snapped this photo of the Jerusalem Chord Bridge. Inaugurated on June 25, 2008 the bridge just kind of…
Tischtuch (= Tablecloth) / Perspectives
A little earlier I was in a conversation with a friend who’s just undergone chemo (not for the first time in his young life). We were talking about random things, and I mentioned…
Beverly Hills Zionist
Respect to Beverly Hills Mayor Jimmy Delshad on naming a street after Theodore Herzl! From YNet News This is by far one of the best days of my life,” Delshad said at the…
The Hundred Years’ Blog War: Thoughts for Rich Silverstein
This blog war has gone on long enough. Maybe the Tikkun Olamy thing to do would be to just stop taking swipes (back even) at CK. I mean, you know, since it would…
Vampire Nazis Who Are Also Zombies
Are we ever going to get over our obsession with Nazis? What about Zombies? Vampires? OK so at first blush you might want to pass on this video because it seems patently ludicrous….
Shemspeed’s Free Bar Yochai Downloads
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was one of the deepest spiritual beings that ever existed, his fame is known because of the Zohar (The Book of Splendor). This is a book which is the…
