This is one of those stories that seems fishy, but the kind of fishy you would have hoped could be taken care of by the institution itself. Unfortunately, it seems some egoes are in the way, and this...
Settler Poker: even when you win you lose and more stories about stinking lousy poker hands
What do you do when the cards in your hand stink but the pot has already sucked up too much of your cash? You bluff. That’s right, you bluff. What else are you going to do? Fold? Nah, folding...
Julius Axelrod – Nobel Prize Winner – 1912-2004
Julius Axelrod couldn’t get into medical school as a young man because, as he put it, “It was hard in those days for Jews to get into medical school. I wasn’t that good a student...
It’s Mel Gibson’s Birthday!
Let Jan. 3rd be a day dedicated to bad taste! Yup. Mel Gibson, producer of the Passion of the Christ, is 49 today. To celebrate it I will engage in all sorts of tasteless activities. For starters I...
Hells Angels Gush Katif
From BeachHillel.com: In a show of solidarity with the Jewish residents of Gaza, fifty members of Israel’s Motorcycle Posse descended on Gaza. While they were there: Three mortar shells were...
1933-2004: Susan Sontag née Rosenblatt
Susan Sontag passed away last Tuesday after a 30 year struggle with cancer. A highly visible public figure since the mid-1960’s, Ms. Sontag wrote four novels, dozens of essays and a volume of...
This aint no party, this aint no disco
This aint no foolin’ around This is the JIB Awards. No. Not that thing on sailboats. JIB stands for Jewish Israeli Bloggers and Dave from the Israellycool blog has gone to much hard work and...
Drunken Jews!
The Muffti extends a Shana Tova to all! Hopefully everyone enjoyed mirth and merriment during the less-judgemental, secular version of Rosh Hashana. Those of you that did were likely to have imbibed...
Rambam is definitely Jewlicious
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. –Rambam The 20th of Tevet (Today, Jan 1) is the Yartziet (anniversary of a death) for Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, also know as Rambam, or...
Exodus: Movement of Jah People
“The essence of Jewish ethics is the development of sensitivity for one’s fellow human beings, and the ability to see every person as a vehicle for the image of G-d in which he or she was...