State Department, Mossad trained sharks & imperialist puppeteers
How should we react when AIDS, the swine flu, infertility, economic stagnation, natural disasters, revolutions, and a litany of other grievances are routinely blamed by Middle Eastern populations on the West—the United States…
Celebrating Tu B’svhat With A Kabbalistic Seder
Before there was Earth Day, the Jewish people introduced an “Earth Day” on the full moon of the Jewish month of Shevat. Called Tu B’shvat, the 15th of Shevat, it marks the time…
IDF Elephant Assaults Palestinian Girl. Or does he?
Of course not! This photo is obviously fake! For starters, the IDF does not issue AK-47s to it’s soldiers. Secondly, no elephant serving for the IDF has ever reached the rank of Sergeant…
Israeli Films Win At Sundance
Two Israeli productions won at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Whether Israel won… well that is another story. It is rare enough that a filmmaker has their film accepted by the Sundance Film…
Kosher Jesus: Rabbi Shmuley and Rabbi Yonah Discuss his Controversial new Book
Join Jewlicious and Nessah for the West Coast Launch of Rabbi Shmuley’s controversial book Kosher Jesus. This Interview Between Rabbi Yonah Bookstein and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach will discuss: What Is The Real Story…
Today in Pinkwashing: Tel Aviv Named Best Gay City
What do readers of GayCities.com consider the number one gay city in the world? Would it be New York? Rio? San Francisco? Portland? Paris? No! Would you believe it’s Tel Aviv? Well, probably…
Free… uh I mean Friend Gilad Shalit!
Gilad Shalit has been back home for a while and the Israeli press has been pretty chill about giving him his space. The Paparazzi have left him alone and everyone has acted honorably…
Israel Firster: The White Supremacist Roots
A case of leftist ‘McCarthyism’? So-called “progressives” should stop mimicking the far right and engage in that debate without questioning the allegiance of their fellow Americans. By James Kirchik for Haaretz One of…
Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed By…
With the fourth nuke scientist bumped-off in the last few years all eyes are pointing to Israel and the USA. But it seems that the Iranian government might be involved in trying to…
The Curse of Violent Extremism: From the 10th of Tevet to Beit Shemesh
Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi at Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, has unleashed a powerful essay that is receiving a ton of attention. While some of the points he advocates might not please everyone,…
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…
“UNORTHODOX”
One of my good friends Shira is involved with the documentary film “UNORTHODOX” that some of you might have already heard about. The film is already seven years in the making and they’re now…
Richard Silverstein is a Dolt
You can say what you will about Richard Silverstein, author of the grotesquely misnamed Tikun Olam Blog, but one thing is beyond denial: Richard Silverstein is a grossly unreliable source of information. Silverstein…
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…
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a revolutionary who always ‘lived within the truth’
Havel, who presided over a free Czechoslovakia, was tireless fighter against totalitarianism and oppression By James Kirchick NEW YORK DAILY NEWS In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died…
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…
Light up Hanukkah, a Party With a Cause
Join us for the most rocking Hanukkah celebration in Los Angeles, Thursday, December 22, 8pm at The Joint. Featuring live music by world music legends Naked Rhythm. This party with a cause benefits…
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.
Who Doesn’t Love Lesbian Themed Ads?
It’s that time of the year, where perhaps inspired by Santa’s List, lists of all kinds are being prepared. Tablet has their 100 Greatest Jewish Films, and I am confident that every other…
Claire Danes on Conan: Tel Aviv is “…the Most intense Party town I’ve ever been to…”
Clare Danes, the star of Homeland, a 24-like show based on the Israeli series Hatufim, was on Conan the other day when the subject of Israel came up. She had been there to…
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…
Guess Who’s Coming to Israel?
This just in: the Red Hot Chili Peppers are coming to Israel, scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon on September 10, 2012. According to Haaretz, “tickets will go on early sale…
Yeah. Paper Birthday Cards are Over. Even Israelis are Getting Romantic.
The stakes have gone up. For your significant other’s next birthday, if you think a card, some flowers and dinner is going to cut it, forget about it. Here is what Meny Hilsenrad,…
Bibi and Abbas to Enjoy Palestinian Chicken?
Nooo. I’m not talking about pissed off Pakistani wife Zainab Bibi and her dead, murdered husband Ahmad Abbas. I’m talking about Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. And when…
