Terrorism finally finds a purpose!
Yes, yes, you all thought terrorism was about sowing psychological fear among a larger population using minimal resources. You all thought terrorism was about imprinting upon and keeping in the forefront of hearts…
Shabbat Shalom
With lots of simchat torah… This image comes from the Rhodes Jewish Museum website. They provide the following description of this sefer torah: The extraordinary story pertaining to this Sefer Torah is that…
Dancin’ Fools
Hat tip to our own Esther To those who don’t know about this ritual, here is some info.
Abbas speaks from two sides of his mouth
Abbas told Condoleeza Rice last week that he would work toward getting Hamas to recognize Israel. He then turned around and gave an interview in Arabic to an Arab reporter where he specified…
Let’s say you’re a fox and a hen comes to guard your house
How would you treat the hen? Okay, okay, I’m called TheMiddle, so let’s also ask what would happen if you’re a hen and the fox comes to guard the henhouse – how would…
Holocaust Human Soap Story May Be…TRUE
Both AFP (yuck!) and Deutsche Presse-Agentur are reporting that Poland’s Institute for National Remembrance (IPN), a Polish government-funded organization has studied a bar of soap from the war and has found that it…
The Bazaar
I thought this was an interesting viewpoint. In the Mideastern bazaar, diplomacy agreements are kept not because they are signed but because they are imposed. In addition, in the bazaar of the Arab-Israeli…
Pirate Circumcisions
She’s innocent until proven guilty! . There’s really little to add to this story. A group of haredi extremists suspected of being part of a pirate circumcision network that carried out illegal circumcisions…
Happy Sukkot and Shabbat Shalom
Chag same’ach to you all and shabbat shalom. A bundle of LULAV, HADAS and ARAVA, with an ETROG to its right, in the mosaic floor of the synagogue of Hamat Tveria (Tiberias), dated…
Hebrew University Biotechnology and Life Sciences thrive
Hebrew University produces more patents than MIT in biotechnology. It ranked 12th out of 424 international institutions of higher learning in the number of patents registered last year (2005). It is ranked first…
The Mother of All Hatchet Jobs – Farrar, Straus and Giroux to publish 21st Century Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Here’s the sequence of events, boys and girls. Two prominent non-Jewish academics, one from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government whose chair is funded by a Jewish benefactor and another from University of Chicago…
Jewlicious needs a cocktail
After a rough and tumble competition, Nicaragua has just selected its national drink! I think that is simply a great idea – why should Cuba have all the fun with its Mojito? Nicaraguan…
Powerful op-ed about talking to Syria
Danny Yatom is a former head of the Mossad. He’s a Labor MK who together with a Kadima MK, Dr. Moshe Amirav, a pragmatic right wing diplomat who has sought dialogue and compromise…
Son of Nobel Prize winner wins a Nobel
Amazingly, this is the sixth (!!!!!) father-son pair to win a Nobel. Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel for Medicine in 1959 for his work on mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid…
Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur
Lisa Goldman from Ontheface has a great post about the streets of Tel Aviv and how on Yom Kippur, they are populated by children on bicycles. Make sure to check out the photos…
Syria’s Assad directly threatens Israel with war – deadline attached
According to the Jerusalem Post, Mr. Assad, President of Syria thanks to his daddy’s talents, feels emboldened by Hizbullah’s performance and his new partnerships with Iran and Russia. He has told a Spanish…
Does the ratio of males to females prove there is a God?
You know my son, he likes to ask questions and more questions I can’t answer. Well, this time, on the way home from synagogue, he asked me how many men and women there…
Another Maniacal Prick
Just reported: Asher Vizgen, found guilty of murdering four Palestinian workers who worked in the aluminum factory at Shiloh in August 2005. He [received 4 life sentences and... ] an additional 12 years…
Dear Maniacal Prick
Several days ago Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had the good form not to call the President of the US a “devil” at the UN, had an opportunity to meet the prestigious Council on Foreign…
Okay kids, it’s time!
Yes, that’s a sunrise. How’s that for overt, simplistic but well-intentioned symbolism? I want to wish a shana tova u’metuka – a sweet and happy new year – with good health and good…
Eight!
I just want to tell everyone that as of today no fewer than eight women have come forward to the police regarding alleged sexual harrassment by the current President of the state of…
Uh oh, diverging realities!
Most Palestinians do not want their elected government of terrorists, Hamas, to “recognize” Israel. Some 66 percent of Palestinians think Hamas should not recognize Israel, said a poll by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center…
Pope Apologizes; Iran plans museum show on Jewish myths to show him!
Uh oh, you just know it’s coming… After offending Muslim sensibilities worldwide by telling the story of a Byzantine leader who dismissed Islam’s violence and speaking in negative terms of the concept of…
Morte – Oriana Fallaci
No, Oriana Fallaci was not Jewish. However, she has written books and articles that have lent her prominence to the defense of Israel and to an attack on Israel’s enemies. We have covered…
Christian Palestinians suffer under Hamas
The Palestinian source tells the story obliquely: Unknown gunmen attacked and set fire to the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) office in the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Saturday morning. According to…
