Well, maybe you can have too much Leonard Cohen but you can certainly never have too much of the godfather of modern Israeli music: Arik Einstein By the way, we’ve discussed him before. 😆 Oh...
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Golan Shabbat
The Golan Heights (source). Shabbat shalom to all.
Jerusalem riots over gays; Rabbinical silence over agunahs
To those who haven’t heard, Chief Rabbi of Israel (Sephardic) Amar has officially cancelled the first international agunot conference that was to be held in Jerusalem in a few days. For those...
Hold the presses! A woman asked Kelsey to dance!
What can I say, I laughed out loud…even as I happily considered all the trouble Mr. Kelsey has been saved by NOT having to convince this woman that it really is better for her if she becomes...
September Cohen
An old and wonderful Leonard Cohen clip (hat tip to Mentalblog). I sure would like to invite him out to a coffee. Here’s the original full interview. Mid-career live version of Tower of Song...
YES!! Somebody finally took responsibility and resigned!
Well, okay, it was just the Minister of Science, Sport and Culture (minister of sport?!). And he didn’t do it because of anything he did, but rather what the leadership of his party decided to...


