Goldstone Commision Released
The Goldstone Commission Report, or more properly the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories Report on the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza…
The Daily Lie – One of The Toronto Film Festival “Protest” Letter Authors Opines and Whines
You know, it is getting pretty tiresome to read these jokers. The twists and turns of misrepresenting history, the deceit or at least serious confusion involved in claiming they are the victims of…
Back from Israel. Quick, TaglitforTwo, sponsor our next flight!
A while ago, I revealed that Mr. B and I would be going on a mini-Birthright for him. Except it wasn’t free. Because it’s kind of awkward for married people to go on…
Register for your Free Birthright Israel Trip TODAY. NOW!
Registration begins today! Time to register if you want to go to Israel this winter with Birthright Israel! When? Like NOW! Join Jewlicious and Israel on the House for the best Israel trip…
Toronto Star (of all papers!!!) Remonstrates Toronto International Film Festival Protesters, Actually All anti-Israel Activists
Look, the Toronto Star cannot be accused of being overly friendly to Israel. We’ve discussed Haroon Siddiqui, whose articles on Israel were often quite critical, a couple of times in the past and…
You Got Cooties, Man!
Sorry. What am I? Fucking 12 years old or something? No. You don’t in fact have cooties. I don’t even know what cooties are. Man. A generous interpretation would be that I am…
Uri Avnery gets Lernered – Or How the Far Left Eats Its Own When They Don’t Toe the Line on Attacking Israel
Some of you folks may recall that in 2003, back in the days of protests against the Iraq War, Rabbi Lerner who founded Tikkun, was prevented from speaking at one of the larger…
Above the law?
When a law is made, or a ruling is handed down by the Supreme Court, all citizens are meant to follow it. Yet, a certain governmental agency in Israel has decided to ignore…
Israeli Product Pogrom at Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe’s in San Francisco being vandalized. Will TJ’s press charges? Should they draw more attention to these folks or should they let this fade away. It is surprising that the store employees…
Date Profile: The American Self-Hating Jew
Oh Jdate – you’ve failed me in so many ways… As you may know, I am often frustrated by stereotypes… but I can’t help but note that I’ve met my first stereotypical American…
Jews back in Ukraine
I bet you’ve been wondering where I was. Well, I’ll give you a hint. No. Not with Amy Winehouse. I was at a Russian Jew wedding. Eight hours away. So, I’ve been all…
umm…. what?
Hamas has reported that they are willing to deal “positively” with Obama’s Middle East Peace Plan “but only in exchange for a long-term truce.” So let’s break this down: 1) This says that…
Israeli Soldier May have been Kidnapped Today
Traffic all across Israel has ground to a snarl as police are checking cars looking for an IDF soldier that may have been kidnapped today at noon. Stay tuned as we’ll try to…
This is Israel by M. Sasek
Thanks to my Twitter friend Koshmarik, I procured a wonderful book this week: It’s chockful of beautiful pictures and little descriptions about Israel for kids by Czech guy M. Sasek. Normally, I am…
Holy Land Gang Land
Us? Criminals? Of course it figures that any time a story on Israeli organized crime comes up, my family name (Abutbul in Hebrew) figures in there somewhere. OK, so the Netanya branch of…
Jews can’t marry in Israel
Maybe it’s just the fact that Tisha B’Av is winding down for me and I’m writing this in a spate of hunger/anger that rivals the Hulk’s. But you know what I think is…
Hideous Israeli Wedding Dress Awareness Day
As you may be aware, living in Israel can have serious consequences. That’s because the State of Israel commits horrible crimes against humanity every day. These manifest themselves in the form of hideous…
Ghost of Rachel Corrie haunts the SF Jewish Film Festival
The Jewish Film Festival has for years been a source of pride for my mom. She enjoys the great films they screen, buying a pass most of the last 20 years. My mom…
Hot Russians invade the Knesset (no, it’s not me this time.)
Every time I am in a majority-Jewish setting, such as in a synagogue, an Israel event, or TJ MaXX when they are having their 50% off sale, I get the feeling that other…
More Fun in the South of Lebanon (Part Deux)
After last Tuesday’s hoopla, UNIFIL has decided to step their activities up a notch. They’ve increased their activities in southern Lebanon. Saturday, UNIFIL troops attempted to search an abandoned building in Bir el-Salasel,…
More Fun in the South of Lebanon
UNIFIL – the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. They are the peace keeping force in Southern Lebanon. Part of their job is to monitor what Hezbollah does in the South of the…
Taking A Flying Leap: Skydiving over Israel
Sometimes you have to meet your greatest fears head on. Well, in this case it was feet first. Jumping out of an airplane at 12,000 feet to celebrate my birthday recently, hoping it…
Russians cast monkeys as Jews in circus
It’s sad to be a Russian these days. The economy is swirling away softly down the toilet, we were unable to invade Georgia successfully, and Verka Serduchka, the Russian version of Dana International,…
Obama should speak to all of us
That is the headline of Ami Eden’s blog on JTA. And he is right. President Obama will be meeting in the White House with 16 leaders of Jewish organizations at 3 p.m. Monday….
Maccabiah 2009 Invades Israel!
The Jerusalem Post reports that “3,500 international athletes and 1,500 accompanying relatives from 60 countries are staying in 1,700 hotel rooms for 14 nights… And that’s only a portion of the 5,000 athletes…
Obama is Deaf to Darfur’s Suffering
Pres. Obama claimed that ended the crisis in Darfur was a priority – but he has dropped the ball on this campaign promise, to the detriment of fragile lives in Darfur. As Mark…
