Jesse Zimmerman is one of the two students who were reprimanded by York University for their behavior on Feb. 11, 2009 when a group of students had to escape to the Hillel office where a mob chanted...
Kol Hakavod, Alysa Stanton!
Alysa Stanton will be ordained in June by Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati as the first female African-American Rabbi. Yay! On being the first? She says: “If I were the 50,000th, I’d still...
Yuriy for Oslo!
What does it take to win the Eurovision Song Contest? Apparently, the most important ingredients for success are cosmopolitanism (covering the voting-bases in most countries participating in the...
Do you know where your nearest bomb shelter is located?
If you live in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, that’s a question that you should answer, and in the affirmative. Last Wednesday, 20 May 2009, Iran launchedthe Sejil 2, its “longest...
Incoming York University Student President Reprimanded, Fined and Unaplogetic
So far we have a number of posts about the incident in Feb., 2009 when identifiably Jewish students were blocked inside the university’s Hillel office while a crowd outside chanted hysterically...
The Ahmadinejad Song
Here for your listening and laughing pleasure… Produced by That1Shmuck.com. Any similarity to Jewish Girl Blues is totally, completely coincidental. Really.
More on York University
UPDATE: On May 22, the York University Osgoode Hall’s associate dean, Janer Mosher, issued two reprimands , one to the incoming president of the York Federation of Students, Krisna...
York University Promotes the End of Israel
[UPDATE AT END OF ARTICLE] When I first saw this press release below from B’nai Brith in Canada, “‘York University conference questioning Israel’s right to exist an exercise...
Rebecca Rubin: Yiddishe American Girl
American Girl, those dolls that real-life Russian Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Settlement (Odessa)Â could never afford when I was growing up, has added a Russian Jewish doll to its collection...
Jerusalem tweetUP! tomorrow. Yay!
Yup. No speeches. No pitches. Just a great opportunity (starting at 8 pm) to meet cool and interesting people in an appropriate setting conducive to friendly networking. Free wine (while supplies...