Here’s the scenario: Israel might launch a preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in the near future in the hopes of slowing down their nuclear program. The possibility of Iran...
What it means to be a Jew among some Arabs
Seriously, I have no idea how to describe the following. I strongly encourage everyone who has a couple of minutes to spare to watch this video. Also note that the accuser is a Salafist, from the...
Tickets on Sale for Jewlicious SummerFest, Aug. 16-19
What last summer’s participants say about SummerFest: “Beautiful location, very inspiring, totally fun.” “Amazing food, amazing people.” “Sickest most bad-ass...
Stupid ADL / Urban Outfitters Holocaust T-Shirt (Non) Controversy
This is just ridiculous, I mean am I missing something here? See, Urban Outfitters had this t-shirt that they were selling online. Designed by a Danish clothing brand called Wood Wood, the shirt...
A Failure to Communicate
By Hannah Brown The most commonly used euphemism for autism in Hebrew is “bayat tikshoret†– communication problem. As the mother of an autistic teenage boy living in Israel, I like this term...
Yasser Arafat Ordered and Funded Acts of Terror During the Second Intifada. Duh.
Haaretz recently got their hands on court documents related to civil suits brought by victims of terror against the Palestine Authority and Marwan Barghouti, the secretary general of Fatah’s...
The New Square Fire-Bomber Got Half the Sentence That Had Been Planned — Because the Victim Asked for Leniency
This week’s top stories from the Jewish world: Teenage hasid sentenced to seven years in prison for an arson attack of a fellow Skverer hasid; Jewish day school nurse allowed to proceed with...
This is a post about Scotland. Why? Because, Jews.
 This is the official Jewish tartan. I wish I were kidding. Hi, everyone.  Long time, no talk. You might remember me from such seminal posts as that time I hated my Hebrew name and...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2012
Today at 10 am Israel time, sirens sounded across Israel, and pedestrian and vehicular traffic came to a standstill in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and in honor of those that resisted the...
Yom Hashoah: From the Depths of our Souls
Survivors are disappearing. We are left with stories, fragments, articles, films, interviews. But nothing can capture the enormity of what happened between 1939-1945. Nothing. After spending years in...