So I called my sister last week to wish her a happy birthday. I was like a few hours late and she kind of let me know that that she was less than impressed, implying that I had forgotten her birthday...
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Amihai is Jewlicious
It’s my friend Amihai’s Birthday this week, and he is decidedly Jewlicious. Amihai was one of the first people I met and befriended when my life started over in Israel. I was fresh off...
Proofs About God
The Muffti was intrigued by a question of TM’s the other day asking about whether or not we could prove or disprove God’s existence. While many (i.e. such luminaries as Kierkegaard and...
Intermarriage? Here’s one solution.
Don’t try this at home kids The BBC reports: A Sikh father hired a hitman to kill his own daughter claiming it would restore family honour because she had a Jewish boyfriend, a court heard...
Merry Chrismukkah?
My parents were raised in Israel. They got married young and at an age when most of us are deciding what to do after graduating, they moved to Canada, little ck in tow. Amongst yordim, there’s...
Don’t Let The JuBu’s Fool Ya…Buddhism is Treif
Rabbi Yonah, the Rabbi of Long Beach Hillel, started off as a client but is now one of the few people I enjoy randomly chatting with. He’s cool and funny and all the stuff a good Rabbi should...
Jewlicious Irony: the whiner, Cole, is apparently a hypocrite
So just below you have the Juan Cole and MEMRI story. After MEMRI threatened Cole with a lawsuit, he cried foul, suggested that Academic Freedom was at stake, and blasted the ethernet with his blog...
Academic Freedom, my tuches
Tonight, a friend sent me a an email that had been floating around a local university campus. The email decried a potential lawsuit, threatened by MEMRI’s head, Yigal Carmon, against Juan Cole...