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…
America: The Photo Montage (How Much Weird Stuff Can I Find at the Airport?)
Hello, Jewlicious people-I’m back from the GA and, boy, are my arms tired. Or something like that. And before you can say “looks like winter has arrived in Israel”, it looks winter has…
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…
Girl Lookit my Shlomo: Circumcised!
LMFAO Parody goes Viral! Check out this Jewish cover of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know it” it’s called “I’m Jewish and You Know it” and is set mostly on the tayelet in Tel…
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…
Richard Silverstein Lies in his Attack on Dan Sieradski in OWS Tweet Fiasco
I just read a 2224 word screed by Richard Silverstein about Dan Sieradski and the Occupy Wall Street, Freedom Waves Gaza Flotilla, tweet “controversy” and now all I want to do is take…
Perry Flops on Aid to Israel
Normally I don’t wander into Republican primary debates. But who can resist when a leading candidate says that he wants to zero out all foreign aid, until they justify it? Perry remarked in…
The Truth About Dave
By Haim Watzman. Originally published in The Jerusalem Report and SouthJerusalem.com I think it was my senior year in high school in which my friend Dave first discovered the truth. And since I…
Natan Sharansky Sits With Masa Israel Interns; Tweets Ensue
Shalom, readers! Here I sit here in the #JFNAGA plenary, listening to….oh, who am I kidding, I’m barely paying attention. If ever there was an event created for the purpose of multi-tasking, multi-schmoozing,…
Latest Flotilla Intercepted by IDF. Yawn.
Last Friday, the IDF boarded two boats attempting to run Israel’s maritime blockade on Gaza. One boat was Canadian and the other Irish and they carried 27 pro-Palestinian activists, journalists and crew members….
Open Letter to Gilad: What you missed these last 5 years
Gilad, Let me first say that there are no words to describe the feelings that your release has triggered. A weird mixture of relief, happiness, and hope swept over me when I first…
Eli Valley’s Spooky Halloween Hasbarah Special
It’s a perfect Halloween Trifecta! My Hebrew birthday is today, I just got my 6,666th follower on twitter and Eli Valley, the Forward’s Artist in Residence brings us yet another one of his…
Everyone is Bibi Bombing
Even Bibi… Let me explain. Remember the other day when Gilad Schalit was finally released from Hamas custody in exchange for 1027 jailed Palestinians? Remember how when he was flown in to the…
Back to the Drawing Board Boys…
Question: The Magic Wand is a) An Israel Air Force system, designed to thwart mid and long-rage missile attacks against densely populated areas in Israel b) An electric vibrating muscle massager, manufactured by…
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…
Gilad Shalit’s Ugly Hamas Shirt…
…is a fucking fashion sensation in Gaza That’s right. Available in four colors, including the classic black worn by Shalit, the shirts are flying off the shelf in Gaza. Selling at 50 shekels…
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…
Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi is Dead
Syria’s Basher Assad should be nervous right now… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQUShElCzE Both the New York Times and Al Jazeera are reporting that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (or Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi according to the NYT or…
Occupy Genesis: Rewinding the Torah, Repairing the World
(Cross-posted on Huffpost.com) The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. The Jewish people make a global reset and roll-back our Torah scrolls. Fresh and new, our world…
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…
Gilad Shalit is Free
Finally. After five years Gilad Shalit is finally in Israeli hands as part of a prisoner exchange deal that will see 1027 Palestinian detainees, many serving life sentences for their direct involvement in…
Gambling in Israel
Some people think that what with all the existential threats we face, every day is a gamble in Israel! But the reality is a bit more mundane than the perception. You are far…
Temple Mount: The Only Place in Israel where Jews can’t Pray…
…also happens to be Judaism’s holiest site! This photo was taken from the Temple Mount, currently occupied by the otherwise lovely Dome of the Rock. Erected between 689 – 691 CE by the…
The Idiot’s Guide to Yom Kippur
Kol Nidre. The Day of Atonement. Shabbat Shabbaton. Whatever you want to call it, we’re just hours away from Yom Kippur. Such a holy day but what exactly is this special day? No…
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…
