Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Aron Milchan, by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, Geffen Books, 2011, 288 pages. Arnon Milchan is best known in America today as a...
Category - Isralicious
Because Israel is YUM!
Canadian PM Harper visits the Knesset, hilarity ensues
Sometimes events are so amusing they overtake fiction, and so it went with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his visit to the Knesset. As we noted on this very site a couple of years ago...
An Interview with Anti-Missionary Crusader Rabbi Tovia Singer
This interview is a follow up to my previous posting about messianics and Rabbi Singer Q: What is your success rate? A: I cannot place a specific number or “rate” of successes. The...
Noble Arabs, Con-Men Jews Score Oscar Nods
I am voting for Nebraska (which was mostly filmed in Montana). Films depicting noble Arabs in the Middle East and Jews acting as con artists in America scored high among the Oscar nominations that...
Rabbi Tovia Singer and the Threat of Messianism
I remember when I was in high school – it was a private Jewish school – there was a special assembly one day where a man came to speak about religious cults. The school wanted to be sure to educate...
Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014
I have always had mixed feelings about Ariel Sharon. Never one to fall in with the Israeli tradition of the cult of personality, – think Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin or David Ben-Gurion – I never...