Winograd: “[the prime minister demonstrated] a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence. Olmert: “[I] intend to work to fix what needs to be fixed, thoroughly...
Author - grandmuffti
Nice Town but
it’s called ‘Swastika’. Go figure.
Shmuely Boteach Mad Lib
Ever wonder how Shmuley pumps out those columns on such a regular basis? Probably it’s ghost writers but Muffti prefers to think that he has a template. He presumes it is kind of like the one...
Finkelstein and Tenure
Muffti has to admit he’s biased: given his job, he has strong reasons to like and admire the tenure system. However, there is a long history of venerable justifications for the system: it...
RIP, Paul Cohen
You’ve probably never heard of him unless you are a logician or logic groupie (Muffti has yet to verify the existence of the latter!), but Paul Cohen was a leading logician and mathematician...
Arab Lesbians Hold Rally in Israel
Muffti believes that we have touched upon this theme before, but here’s an update. Haifa was the site of a public rally held by Arab lesbians. The conference was called ‘Home and Exile in...
Tanya Reinhardt Rest In Peace
Tanya Reinhardt, linguist and political activist (both roughly in the Chomskian tradition) passed away on Saturday at age 63. Muffti saw Tanya give a talk this past summer in Jerusalem, and it was...
Muffti wonders why it is that
Israeli’s smoke Hezbollah hash? Oh yeah, for reasons like this: Two Israelis who apparently thought moving from Tel Aviv to settlements in the West Bank would provide a smokescreen for their...