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A Call for an End to Hitler Comparisons
2008-03-04 03:56:00 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently declared Israel ’s military incursion into Gaza to be “worse than the Holocaust.” Ironically, Abbas’ “doctoral thesis” was a work of Holocaust denial, so it’s not clear what insult was being insinuated by comparing Israel’s actions to something that he claims never happened (perhaps it was actually meant as a compliment?). But ... More About: Politics , Bush , Jewish , Hitler
Kosher Cheeseburgers: The Controversy
2008-03-04 02:44:00 Talia?s Steak House, an Upper West Side kosher eatery made news this week when they updated their menu and began serving a kosher ?Cheeseburger.? The burger, which uses tofu cheese, has raised a controversy in the Jewish community over the issue of maras iyen the act of doing something which is permissible according to Jewish ... More About: News , Humor , Food , New York Post
Being a Heretic, or, How to Disagree With the Talmud
2008-03-03 10:11:00 This is the third in a series of articles promoting the idea that people should feel free to come up with their own ways of interpreting biblical verses and Talmudic reasoning. Don’t feel limited just because you don’t have a fancy name like “the Ditz.” -Daveed Yoel Tzvi The 71 Sided Die - Why should you want ... More About: Philosophy , Education , Israel , Heretic
Top Chef Goes Kosher
2008-03-02 18:47:00 Hung Huynh, winner of Bravo’s “Top Chef ” Season Three, has been named Executive Chef of Solo, a Mediterranean-Asian fusion kosher restaurant in Manhattan, located inside the Sony building at 55th & Madison. Huynh, born in Vietnam, studied Asian and French cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America. According to the Forward, Huynh will begin his ... More About: Cooking , Food , Top Chef , Kosher
Award Winning Israeli Director Dan Katzir Releases New Movie Trailer
2008-02-29 23:15:00 Award winning independent director Dan Katzir has released a trailer for his new movie, Yiddish Theater: A Lover Story. The film had its theatrical release in LA, NYC and Tel Aviv, Israel at the end of 2007, and had a special showing at Laemmle?s Monica and Town Center Encino in early January 2008. The film is ... More About: News , Movies , Movie , Entertainment
Israel Prepares for Gaza Invasion
2008-02-29 09:33:00 As Hamas attacks on Israel i cities continue, Israel has begun to consider a full scale invasion of Gaza . Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “We should be prepared for an upswing in hostilities in Gaza. The big ground operation is a reality and it is tangible. We are not eager to embark upon such an operation, ... More About: News , Invasion
Is Barack Obama a Gay Muslim Jewish Irishman?
2008-02-29 03:43:00 This is my first post (finally, after much arm cajoling) so I decided to make it an attention grabbing one. I’ve noticed people seem to be confused over Barack Obama ’s ethnicity. In his first run for Senate in Illinois, he apparently received a large share of the Irish vote because people saw his name and ... More About: Politics , Humor , Jewish , Muslim
On ?School Choice?
2008-02-28 23:21:00 It’s campaign season in the US, and one of the issues that comes up during every campaign is “school choice.” “School choice” is a code word for school voucher programs, through which money would be taken away from public schools and given to private schools instead. In other words, under a school voucher ... More About: Politics , Education , Choice
Leader of Entebbe Airport Rescue Dead at 70
2008-02-28 19:20:00 February 2008 has been a month that has seen a lot of ups and downs in Israel and the broader pro-Israel community. We’ve marked the 5th anniversary of the death of Israel’s first astronaut; we’ve seen - possibly - the seeds sown for a very hush-hush 2nd “Disengagement” beginning with the small town of ... More About: Airport , General , Dead , Rescue
Will they have to forfeit?
2008-02-28 03:27:00 The Herzl/Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy from Denver, CO might be in danger of losing a tournament championship game before they ever set foot on the court. In the midst of a championship basketball tournament, if RMHA wins one more game, they can play for the title. However, the championship game takes place next Shabbos, March ... More About: News , Politics , Sports , Jewish , Basketball
Japan and Israel, Strikingly Logical Bedfellows
2008-02-27 17:05:00 In the weeks following Spielberg’s snubbing of China on humanitarian grounds, and the Israel i Knesset’s recent decision regarding Asian Chefs in Ethnic establishments, we bear witness to an historic meeting of two countries: Japan and Israel. Iran’s nuclear capabilities and desires have led their former business partner, Japan, to seek greener pastures. Indeed, Japan is ... More About: News , That , Logical
The Sound of Silence, Jewish-Style
2008-02-27 16:20:00 There is nothing more filled with sound than quiet. It is both fascinating and frightening to listen to the cacophony of my internal sounds. After all, who knows what I might hear. My personal, layman?s, approach to quiet has always been to make so much external noise that I can?t hear the sounds from within. This ... More About: Philosophy , Jewish , Style , Sound , Torah
Illegal Questions to Ask: America vs. Israel
2008-02-27 14:44:00 I live between two distinct cultures. One part of me lives in America . I consume American culture by the boatload, I try to keep abreast of the politics, economics, news, and mass media. In ideology I empathize most closely with an open democracy, in which religion does not have a part (while it has a ... More About: Israel , Questions , General , Illegal
Skittles No Longer Kosher in Europe
2008-02-26 17:50:00 After nearly a decade, Skittles are no longer under hashgacha (kosher supervision) in Europe . For years, you could travel, or at least stop over, at a European destination and buy Skittles (as long as they were made in Ireland or England). No more. Growing up traditional, I ate the non-kosher Skittles, among other candies ... More About: Food , Kosher
Iranian Jew
2008-02-23 06:19:00 Born in Iran in 1951, there usually would be no question as to who holds my father?s allegiance, except for the fact that he is Jewish. His father a true Iranian , his mother an Iraqi, they never had any doubt within their own minds. Being in Iran became a danger and a threat. ... More About: Politics
God Bless Atheists, or, How to Find Faith in Colorful Moving Pictures
2008-02-22 06:16:00 Many television shows seem to have a heavy religious component. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent slew of science fiction that has invaded the airwaves over the past few years. If you pull reality television and unscripted television off the list (translate: game shows with bugs and game shows with bald men, ... More About: Philosophy , Movies , Pictures , Entertainment , Faith
Thoughts
2008-02-20 06:13:00 I have a revelation to make I wouldn?t tell this to just anybody most people would find this ridiculous and think me either mad or joking More About: Literature , Thoughts
The 71 Sided Die
2008-02-18 06:05:00 One idea that is thrown around in Jewish thought is that there are seventy different approaches to learning. “Shivim Panim Latorah” (Bemidbar Rabba 13:15). The phrase in its entirety is, “There are 70 faces to Torah ; turn it over and turn it over for everything is found in it.” This claim ... More About: Philosophy , Education , Halacha
The New Month of Adar
2008-02-17 16:15:00 The new month of Adar has just begun and we are reminded by the rabbis that this is a time for rejoicing. As we prepare to celebrate this special time of joy, families in Demona, Israel will be grieving the loss of loved ones who were shopping in a mall when a suicide terrorist ... More About: Education , Prayer , Torah , Month , Yeshiva
Put Everything in a Bowl and Mish Recipies: Banana Cake
2008-02-15 16:46:00 This is the ABSOLUTELY MOST TERRIFIC BANANA CAKE recipe that is guaranteed to win a place on your favorites list. My family loves it for the taste and I love it because it is the simplest dessert to make. Just put all the ingredients in a big bowl ... More About: Cooking , Food , Banana , Cake , Kosher
Hezbollah Issues Threat Against Israel
2008-02-15 06:30:00 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a threat against Israel Thursday. This threat comes amongst accusations of Israel?s involvement with the car bomb that killed Hezbollah Commander Imad Mughniyeh earlier this week. Nasrallah who has been in hiding since 2006 due to threats of assassination, spoke at Magniyah?s funeral via telecast. ?You crossed the ... More About: News , Issues , Hezbollah , Threat
Join the Jewneric LinkedIn Group
2008-02-14 23:37:00 Follow the link or click on the button to join the Official Jewneric LinkedIn Group. Welcome to the family [http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/56480/0894 D30E8EA2] More About: News , Community , General , Web 2 , Join
About the Impending Israeli Sushi Strike and the Implications and Ramificat
2008-02-14 21:23:00 Strikes are inevitable. Certain things can be done without. (I am not, God forbid, referring to House, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, Heroes, 30 Rock, or any other TV shows affected by the recently-ended WGA Writer’s Strike in the US. That was hell, and should not be experienced by anyone.) In the long time that ... More About: Cooking , Israel , Restaurants , Sushi , Strike
Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film
2008-02-14 16:14:00 Though the Coen brothers have made their careers by writing and directing movies, their recent film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy?s No Country for Old Men is the work most likely to win them an Oscar for Best Picture. The departure from self-written black comedy has lead brothers Joel and Ethan to their greatest success since ... More About: Film , Brothers , Award , Pick
Spielberg?s Advisory Message to Beijing
2008-02-14 15:47:00 The term ?Never Again? is not just empty rhetoric for Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of ?Schindler?s List? and ?Munich?, withdrew as an artistic adviser to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics . The withdrawal is in direct response to China?s financial support, weapons trade, and inaction with respect to its ... More About: News , Movies , Entertainment
Tri-Colored Snoopy Takes Best of Show At Westminster
2008-02-14 07:10:00 As a lifelong dog lover I always look forward to the Super Bowl of Dogdom, the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York. For two nights I sit fascinated in front of my television watching beautiful pure-bred dogs go round and round a ring, showing their style, demonstrating the diversity and ... More About: News , Dogs , Snoopy
Hezbollah Official Dies in Car Bombing
2008-02-14 00:23:00 Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh, the man suspected of planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine Barracks in Lebanon in the early 1980’s, was killed by a car bombing late Tuesday in Syria. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack but Israel has stated that they had no involvement. Hezbollah announced the death several hours after the explosion but did not release details of Mughniyeh’s death. Later, the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria made a statement about Mughniyeh’s death being the result of a car bombing that took place in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Eye witnesses in Damascus claim that a civilian was killed as security forces secured the area and removed the body but Syrian authorities refused to give further details. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini was quoted as saying, “This action is yet another brazen example of organized state terrorism by the Zionist regime.” He would go on to call on the world to ... More About: Hezbollah , Official , Bombing , Dies
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
2008-02-13 18:38:00 Sharon Weinberger has written an article for Wired’s Danger Room about her experience as the subject of a test involving a Sonic Blaster at a Jeruslaem hotel. Sharon’s reaction when she first heard about the less-lethal weapon’s existence was “A puke ray? An honest-to-God puke ray? Right here in Jerusalem?” I have to say that my reaction would have been the same, but Sharon went a few steps further than I would dare. She contacted Dr. Maurice Goldman, a retired dentist who is the designer of Inferno, and arranged a demonstration of the device’s effect which is supposed to induce wonderful sensations such as “vertigo, nausea, and pain in the chest.” Here is how Sharon described the experience: “I’m not sure words can do justice to what can only be described as the most unbearable, gut-wrenching noise I’ve ever heard in my life.” (more…) More About: Shoot
What a Wonderful World It Could Be, or, My Way or the Highway
2008-02-13 06:04:00 For several years, I have been involved in a radio show, going back to my days as YU radio station manager, called Dead Air. We discuss politics, religion, satire, movies, current events, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Despite our advancing age, the members of the Dead Air crew have consistently discussed and often predicted ... More About: Philosophy , News , Politics , World , Community
Israel vs. Google
More articles from this author:2008-02-13 05:33:00 The city of Kiryat Yam is suing Google for a description which was posted on Google Earth that portrays the history of the city in a negative light. The following is the description at issue: “This is one of the Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israel i war. For basic information about this locality, ... More About: General , Web 2 , Tech 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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