It should come as no surprise that I side more with Ariel Beery than with the folks at Jewschool on the issue of whether Jews should focus on particular or universal concerns. In June, responding to...
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9/11/2001
Read a Book, Jam to Tunes, Eat a Pickle, or Save Darfur
It’s September, which means all the kids are back in school, and Jewish communities are kicking off the fall season with festivals galore across the US–books, music, and pickles are all...
Darfur Trembles
A year ago it was a collection of straw huts, hastily thrown together in the aftermath of battle, hard by the razor-wire edge of a small African Union peacekeeper base. Today it is a tangle of sewage...
I Have an Idea!
Why not create a radio station and play the same fucking music on rotation over and over and over again all day long until even the good songs make you want to pull a Clockwork Orange? Edit: the...
If you only read one book about the Final Solution…
Just found a review for “Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution” by Laurence Rees, BBC Books (!!). The reviewer, a history professor by the name of Eli Shaltiel, tells us that the...
Nasrallah must be laughing hard
The US is about to send arms and trainers to the Lebanese army, supposedly to strengthen its hands against Hizbullah. The value of the package will be about $30 million and the training will be...
Hitler’s Nephew’s Grandson is a Jewish Studies Teacher at an Israeli University
And he’s an Orthodox Jew too He’s not the only one either. Apparently there’s a subculture of hundreds of children of Nazis, the majority of whom have converted to Judaism, live as...