Author - froylein

Or what else could prompt someone to compare the criticism of high-profile bankers to Weimar Republic and Third Reich anti-Semitism? Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the Munich-based ifo-Institute for...

Richard Blackwell, author of the schadenfreude-inspiring worst-dressed list, died at age 86. Richard was born Richard Sylvan Seltzer in Brooklyn in 1922. He struggled through a tough childhood before...

Lately, I’ve noticed several writers that used the feminine personal pronoun (in all cases + reflexive pronoun) when referreing to “Israel”. For all I knew – and for what the...

… will that help me think of a better post title? Probably not, but you may remember Muffti’s post on Misha Defonseca who’d tried to pass off her book about a child whose parents...

Jewish geography played at a professional level minus Jews:

You knew I was going to do it. The china is from Rosenthal‘s Studio Line range, dating from the late 1970s. As I explained before, it was duly purchased before my birth.

As I consider it somewhat possible that the one or the other member of NK wouldn’t mind “eating” Ahmadinedjad if you know what I mean… (I don’t know how to embed an...

Really. I do. The collective accomplishments of Israeli scientists are indeed impressive. And today they’ve impressed me even more: A team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...