She’s innocent until proven guilty! . There’s really little to add to this story. A group of haredi extremists suspected of being part of a pirate circumcision network that carried out...
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Yiddish With George and Laura
What’s a “farbisseneh”? Who are the “goyim”? What’s a “shmeggegge”? And what does all of this have to do with the President and First Lady of the...
Do people who dedicate their lives to helping animals ever get called self-hating humans?
I don’t know, but at least it gives me some reason to post about this amazing article on elephants in the NYTimes (very long, very worth it). Between social structure, funeral rites and...
A Jewish Movie and an Arab Film Festival walk into a bar…
51 Birch Street, the story of a Jewish family who bought into the suburban American dream as told after the mother’s death is getting critical acclaim around the globe. In addition to being...
Hate Site of the Weak XVI
Idiots! Idiots rule! Thankfully, white power groups are the fringe, rather than the norm, of western society. Curiously, the fringe itself has fringes and this weak, err, week, Muffti brings you a...
Mamet’s “j’accuse”
A fellow Jewlicious blogger pointed me to this review of David Mamet’s The Wicked Son, by Cynthia Ozick. The piece begins with the story of a 13th century French Jew who decided enough of all...
Happy Sukkot and Shabbat Shalom
Chag same’ach to you all and shabbat shalom. A bundle of LULAV, HADAS and ARAVA, with an ETROG to its right, in the mosaic floor of the synagogue of Hamat Tveria (Tiberias), dated from 6th...
Hebrew University Biotechnology and Life Sciences thrive
Hebrew University produces more patents than MIT in biotechnology. It ranked 12th out of 424 international institutions of higher learning in the number of patents registered last year (2005). It is...