I’m not usually one to put too much weight into end-of-days type propaganda I mean prophecy, but this is starting to get to me. Israel has experienced its third earthquake since February. The...
NZ Grave Desecration Pics
By now I am sure you’ve all heard about the recent spate of anti-semitic attacks against Jewish targets in New Zealand. Melbourne Indymedia has posted a series of photos showing the results of...
JDate IP Oh Oh!
Haaretz reports that MatchNet , the operator of JDate, is planning an IPO on NASDAQ in which it hopes to raise $100 million. MatchNet is currently traded on the Frankfurt bourse where it has a market...
Spiegelman on 9-11
Art Spiegelman, Pullitzer prize winning author of “Maus I” and “Maus II” is set to release a new, what do you call it? Graphic Novel? Comic Book? Anyhow, it’s called...
Modigliani: Pretty darned Jewish
The Jewish Museum in New York is currently hosting an exhibition titled “Modigliani: Beyond the Myth” (until September 19th). The Jewish Museum? Modigliani? Why you ask? Because...
Reform Jews want Congress to not be so Pro Israel. Sort of.
Forward reports that David Saperstein, Washington representative of the US Reform movement, in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, urged the White House to step up its peace efforts in the...
Hamas Logic 101
Hamas has threatened to “rain down rockets” on Israel unless the IDF ceases it’s operations in Gaza aimed at thwarting rocket launching operations. Presumably, as soon as the IDF...
Sonic Youth
Oy. What a day. First, it may or may not be Yasser Arafat’s 75th birthday. Yasser was born either in Gaza or Cairo. Apparently it’s some kind of secret… And then Mom got into a car...
Doing It, Greek Style
No that’s not what I’m talking about. I was talking about the new kosher restaurant that just opened in Athens, in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Rabbi Mendel Hendel (no joke), one of...
Saddam is now officially toast
Maariv reports that basically, Saddam’s daughter, the unfortunately named Raghad, has wrecked any chance her father might have had to walk away from his upcoming trial, scott free: Raghad...