From www.everythingjewish.com On a deeper level, the four species are often compared to four types of Jews. The etrog has taste and smell, so it stands of people who possess both learning and good...
A rabbi and a football coach walk into a bar…
This is the stuff Disney movies are made of. Last week, The Norwalk High School Bears got a heter to play on Friday night. Normally, the ultra-sensitive team tries not to, as the shouting teenagers...
Dishonesty and Misinformation at B’Tselem
The other day I was looking at a chart in an American newspaper showing the death statistics of the current Israel-Palestinians war. The numbers were provided by the Israeli “human...
Did it really have to be this long?
The prize for overblown, overlong, overthought, uninformative and generally drab newspaper article of the year goes to this piece about a very serious food. By the way, the real failure of the...
As if we didn’t already know…
So now it’s official, UNWRA employs Hamas members. The Agency’s head, Peter Hansen, who is currently embroiled in a fight with the IDF about the Israeli accusation that UN vehicles are...
With Friends Like This…
Well, it appears that not only our Jewish clergy oppose the Gaza pullout, but Evangelical Christians do as well. Yup, Pat Robertson was leading about 4000 pilgrims on a visit to the Holy Land when he...
Uh, wouldn’t a high-level summit between Jews and Palestinians be just a bit more helpful?
Jews, Presbyterians Meet Over Israeli Policy Divide A high-level summit between Jewish and Presbyterian leaders on Tuesday covered little new ground in an ongoing dispute over Middle East policy[.]...
Tsnius is in II
Hot on the news that tsnius type clothing, modest fashion worn by orthodox women, is now “in,” comes this latest development from the house of Versace. It seems that Donatella Versace...
I am the Rebbetzin … Holy crap.
Jewschool has their rebbetzin and we have ours: The Renegade Rebbetzin. We don’t know who she is or where she’s from, but her blog’s a riot. And, uh… wise, as befits the wife...
The Price of The Passion
Mel Gibson has a Stalker Poor Mel. He had to get a homeless stalker arrested and get a restraining order against him as well. This is after Zack Sinclair, 34, kept showing up at Gibson’s Malibu...