Oh Canada. In today’s Globe and Mail, Naomi Klein, a well known Canadian author whose leftist views have found a considerable following, wrote an op-ed explaining what the protesters who wrote...
Toronto Star (of all papers!!!) Remonstrates Toronto International Film Festival Protesters, Actually All anti-Israel...
Look, the Toronto Star cannot be accused of being overly friendly to Israel. We’ve discussed Haroon Siddiqui, whose articles on Israel were often quite critical, a couple of times in the past...
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht…
As many of you probably know, elections for the federal parliament are taking place in Germany at the end of September. While most major parties seem to be keeping the Middle East out of their...
A rose by any other name?
In a recent New York Times article, John F. Burns wrote, “Evidence at the London trial showed that several of the plotters, like those on Sept. 11, had traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan for...
A Labor Day Weekend Marred by Crazy News Story
Sigh. I was looking forward to an interesting Labor Day Weekend here in the U.S. There is that new Heeb Issue to read or browse, and not buy, at the Barnes and Noble bookstore. There is actually a...
Oh Joshua…
Oh Joshua, I’m sorry. I’ve done you wrong. I’m metaphorically standing here, barefoot, in my penitent hair shirt, willing to throw myself at the mercy of your kind heart, oh Joshua...
You Got Cooties, Man!
Sorry. What am I? Fucking 12 years old or something? No. You don’t in fact have cooties. I don’t even know what cooties are. Man. A generous interpretation would be that I am writing this...
Rebuilding and Being Built
A few years ago, at a Yom Kippur service in New York, I met Neshama Carlebach through a mutual friend. It was a few more years until we met again at a Yom Kippur break-the-fast in Jerusalem at our...
The Attack on the Toronto International Film Festival and its Israeli Films…Are The Protesters Dupes, Palestinian...
The new open letter attacking the Toronto International Film Festival for exhibiting Israeli films is a mendacious attack not only on israel, but on freedom of expression and the truth. Presenting a...
MASA Video Freaks out the Jews!
The video is pretty straightforward. Produced by MASA, an organization that brings diaspora Jewish youth to Israel and heavily subsidizes their participation in various long term programs, the video...