Something to remember next time somebody complains about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
This murderer who sat in an Israeli prison and refused to divulge the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims, used his time in prison to receive a free university education…
Kol Isha Alert – What happens when you let things fester
Raymond Ibrahim writes for Middle East Forum and extensively covers the fate of Christians in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Today he published an article about the hijab that I think should serve…
It’s time to accept that Obama will be a two-term President
Look, I don’t want Obama as President of the USA. He coddles the criminals who brought us to the brink of a depression, he does a poor job of running this economy, his…
I am so sick of Tom Friedman
It’s not just that his analysis is so frequently off the mark, it’s that he says foolish things sometimes, even if he doesn’t intend them to come out they way they do. In…
Avoiding a civil war in Israel
The crazy rabbi who pronounced recently that if the IDF allows women to perform in public, then observant men should immediately leave the area even if it’s against military regulations and even if…
What was the one missing ingredient from the YU anonymous sex story? A music video!
Hat tip to New Voices, which also broke the original story. Thanks to them, I plotzed when I saw it (I have no idea what plotzing means because I didn’t grow up with…
While Newt gets in trouble for denying Palestinian nationhood, a little video crops up
Somebody needs to preserve this video before it magically disappears from Youtube. This is former Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara denying there is or ever was a Palestinian people. He is referring, by…
Shmulik Krauss
Okay, he was a troubled man in many respects, but his musical talents can’t be denied.
Kol Isha / Woman’s Voice Alert 4 – Segregation in education
Haaretz reports that in the past ten years the number of schools within Israel’s state-run religious elementary schools has grown from 25% of the schools to 65%. In some cases, segregation begins as…
Ryan Braun Wins MVP
Alright, this guy really is an amazing player, probably at an historic level of playing. He is also the fourth Jewish MVP in Major League Baseball history joining greats like Greenberg, Koufax and…
Kol Isha / Women’s Voice Movement Alert 3
A new alert for those women who are fighting to ensure their place in modern Israeli and observant Jewish society. As the Jerusalem Post tells it, on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, “The Israel…
Woman’s Voice Movement Alert!
Here is an example of the importance of having a Woman’s Voice movement that has women singing or humming whenever they are out in public places with men in the vicinity: Top settler…
I hereby launch the Woman’s Voice movement
Those of you who haven’t been following closely may not be aware but in recent months there have been a number of public incidents in Israel where women have been asked to stop…
No, don’t help Abbas and the PA with prisoner releases
There’s a little bit of fear-mongering going on right now by some parties that want Israel to release Fatah prisoners to make Mahmoud Abbas look good. The IDF, for example, has expressed to…
Nothing surprising about this story
This is the Israel I know and love. For five and a half years, while Gilad Shalit was held by Hamas in Gaza, the Iscar metal working tools company offered his family financial…
The New York Times with its Ideological Blinders on Israel Fails Again
I can’t keep doing this. Every couple of days the New York Times gets it wrong again when it comes to Israel. How many times can the Times try to knock the square…
A Noble Day for Israel
The list of Palestinians who were released today in trade for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, is nauseating. There is the planner of the bombing on Passover Eve in Netanya in 2002 that…
Ben Stiller on SNL
I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but it’s worth finding if they remove it. If it’s gone, look up Ben Stiller opening monologue in Saturday Night Live episode 705.
Another Israeli Nobel Prize – Dan Shechtman from Technion for Chemistry
In April, 6 months before the Nobel Committee’s announcement about the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Ha’aretz published an article about Danny Shechtman, who was awarded the prize, describing the scientist and the…
Have you read the Performance-Based Roadmap?
This is the “Roadmap” referred to in every Quartet agreement and relevant UN Security Council resolution in order to bring peace and two states for Israelis and Palestinians. It is supposed to be…
Time for Shas and Eli Yishai to Leave the Government Permanently
Eli Yishai is an idiot. Eli Yishai hurts Israel gravely. Eli Yishai is a menace to all Israelis. Eli Yishai should retire tomorrow and his party needs to disappear. His party is Shas….
Is it offensive to compare abortion to the Holocaust?
I think so, but I’m willing to be hear others’ opinions. Here’s the manipulative film called “180″
Welcome to the Palestinian Endgame
In November of ’09 I wrote a couple of pieces about how we had entered the Palestinian Endgame. In those posts I suggested that the Palestinians, for the first time in decades, actually…
BDS is for the Birds
These appear to be the contents of a letter from Professor Denis MacEoin to the students of the Edinburgh University Student Association after their idiotic and bigoted decision to single out Israel from…
Palestinian statehood or Abbas and Erakat sharing a shakshuka recipe?
Go ahead, click on this…you know you want to… By the way, here is the post with Dave Abitbol’s mom’s shakshuka recipe. It’s a classic.
A Question About Palestinian Statehood and the Security Barrier (aka “The Wall”)
Um, if the security barrier is racist and leads to apartheid, why do the Palestinians seek to establish a state with no Jews in it on land 92% of which sits to the…
