Use vs. Mention
There are often no cats in catastrophes but there is a ‘cat’ in ‘catastrophe’. Sarah Grunfeld, a student at York university missed this important distinction between using a word and mentioning it by…
Israeli Welfare and the Tea Party
According to Rand Paul, Israel is a welfare recipient and it’s time to end (as is the money transferred to American arms industry via foreign aid). As Paul puts it: I’m not singling…
Sarah Palin and Blood Libels
A slight furor, or perhaps simply raised eyebrows, came about when Sarah Palin used the phrase ‘blood libel’ to describe the attention paid to her (and pundits like her) rhetoric. Jewish American public…
Bibi and Romney
Looks like Netanyahu is hedging his bets, but as politico puts it, this probably won’t help his relationship with Obama. This probably won’t help the cool relations between Obama and Netanyahu. For Romney,…
Fired for Questioning Evolution and Human Caused Global Warming: Gavriel Avital
Or perhaps it was for what Ynet calls ‘a scandal filled trial year’. Dr. Gav Avital is was the chief scientist of Israel’s Education Ministry but comments such as these riled enough sensible…
Zakaria and The ADL
In 2005, Fareed Zakaria was awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey first amendment award (Humphrey, you will remember, was Johnson’s VP who lost to Nixon after one of the US’s darker election seasons). Zakaria…
Lebanon Border Shootout
The IDF, apparently up rooting trees, were shot at near the Lebanese border today. The Lebanese claimed that the IDF had traversed the border into Lebanese territory and fired first; UNIFIL and the…
Changing Directions
The Grandmuffti listened to an interesting lecture the other day by Rabbeinu Moreinu Dovid Gottlieb on the age of the universe and evolutionary theory. It struck Muffti that RDG was clearly right: Evolution…
Happy Canada Day!
Why is this Jewlicious? (1) Who cares, eh? (2) At least two of the founding writers (Muffti and CK) are Canadian! So go drink a Molson, kiss a pretty lady/gent (or three, as…
Schalit March: Day 4
Is anyone marching? Would be great to hear first hand reports. And photos. From Jpost A march demanding the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit continued on its fourth day on Wednesday,…
Britain Booting a Diplomat over Forged Passports
“I think [the] British are behaving hypocritically and I don’t want to offend dogs on this issue, since some dogs are utterly loyal, who are they to judge us on the war on…
Freeze (but keep on moving)!
Muffti hopes the clarification of details mentioned in the article clarifies the details. It wouldn’t be crazy to think, he guesses, that suspecting a freeze lots of construction started in anticipation. Think what…
Hate Crime on Campus
A UC Davis student, living in a Jewish residence, was disturbed to find a swastika carved into her door. Muffti hopes they find the perp and treat it like a hate crime. Source…
This is a Surprise
Muffti has been a way for a while, and he sees that the landscape has changed in his absence: writers are throwing around words like ‘reificatory’ akwardly and the Middle is back to…
Shalit for 980
It’s a steep number but would it ever be great to get him back, after three years. From Cnn. Israel could release 980 Palestinian prisoners in a possible deal to win the freedom…
Nabbed a Suspected Jewish Terrorist
Muffti is glad they got him. What a strange story. The man was granted the right to carry a handgun despite suspicion of murder. He confessed to murders in 2000 but the shin-bet…
Charming Signs at the most recent Tea Party
The use and abuse of the swastika for political purposes is no new thing: the left used it to characterize Bush, the right has used it at tea parties to characterize Obama (or…
CNN reports on a brand new many year old story!
Fail. Yet more evidence that CNN is rather behind the curve…when you basically open up with a paragraph like this, one has to wonder if you are a real news organization or, more…
You Gotta Admire Jewish Cross-Promotion
And here Muffti is giving it the attention it doesn’t deserve. But he really likes the line about the ‘moral obligations of a celebrity’. Does anyone of our readers know which passage of…
Bernie Madoff: Striking Down the Myth That Bald Old Jews Can’t Party Like Rockstars
OK, well, he re-affirmed the myth that Jews are money grubbing thieves who would rip-off even their own people and institutions. But, he did apparently party like it was 1999. A lot. His…
How Do You Fight A Civilian Population
who fights with molotov cocktails and refuses to obey the rule of law? As one IDF officer said “[They] have forgotten what it means to live in a state of law…They think everything…
A Part of EV’s life in Comic Form
EV has a new one out, this time describing some rather nasty elements at an Israel Rally. It’s in the Forward:
Gotta Make Room for New Dead Jews
It’s not a bad scam – the direct victims don’t complain and the indirect victims don’t know. But the risks are high – get caught and you really look bad. An LA Jewish…
JEC / Ohr Somayach Ties – or – Kelsey Gets Quoted in the Forward
The forward ran an interesting story about a potential orthodox agenda to JEC – the organization that takes care of post-birthright trip follow-ups and Alumni for New York. In particular, the story contains…
Muffti’s New Love Interest
Working for a blog does come with perks! Muffti just got this email: Dearest Dear. My name is Jennifer,i saw your profile today in www.jewlicious.com and became intrested in you,i will also like…
