On Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, an alarm goes off throughout Israel. People stop whatever it is they are doing and stand in silence for a moment in order to commemorate the murder of 6...
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The Banality of Evil
“The banality of evil” is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt in her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem. Adolph Eichmann was a German bureaucrat and during WWII, the chief architect and...
Battle of the Bearded European MCs
Neither is Matisyahu, both look like Chabadnics, both are preachy but only one has been described as a “hard-headed preaching bastard.” Enjoy and feel free to comment. dan le sac VS...
Friday the 13th and Parshat Shemini
Things that are scary… Riffing off of Beth’s previous post on Friday the 13th, I got to thinking about this week’s Parsha (Torah portion) – Shemini. This weeks...
Benefit Concert for Darfur in NYC: TONIGHT!
If you’re in or near New York and feel like being entertained for a good cause, then tonight’s the night! NewOath.org is hosting what is shaping up to be a very interesting evening to...
So. Wrong.
The Herald Tribune recently reported on a group of bloggers who feel that there’s a need to “bring civility” to the Web. Last week, Tim O’Reilly, a conference promoter and...
MidEast Piece of my heart now baby!
Congratulations go out to ROI120 alum Matt Lebow and my favorite person in Israel John Leonard on their getting a positive write up on Ynet News for their blog MidEast Piece. In their mission...
Madonna and the Continued Decline of the Lower East Side
Is there anyone out there who still thinks that Manhattan’s Lower East Side is cool? I mean other than Kelsey? The neighborhood has long been a haven for wannabe-hipsters, NYU students slumming...