Mother Jones Magazine presents this year’s Diddly Awards, celebrating the achievements of the 108th US Congress. Highlights include: Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) procuring a subsidy to help build...
birthright palestine?
Haaretz reports ISM activists use Birthright program to get to Israel: Jessica, [a] recent birthright graduate who volunteers for the ISM in Az-Zawiya outside of Salfit in the West Bank … and...
Iranian Jew donates £2.25m for the study of Islamic Art
Dr. Nasser Khalili, an Iranian-born Jew and collector of Islamic art donated £2.25m to Oxford University. The Gift will be used to set up the Khalili Research Centre which “will ensure Islamic...
Ha Ha Happy Bastille Day Montreal
I usually like French imports. Despite issues I have with the government, I consume their wines, watch their movies, visit the country, eat the food, wear the clothes, etc. But one import I can do...
a glimmer of sanity
third date in the bag. early head-over-heels period definitely over. some measure of clarity and perspective able to flow in now. since getting pissed off at her we spoke a few times and last night...
France still sucks.
Turns out that the reported anti-semitic attack on a non-Jewish woman in France was a hoax all along. This unfortunate incident doesn’t really change anything. On the eve of Bastille Day, it...
Not Jewish …
Benyamin Cohen of The Yada Yada Yada Blog posted this story about Model/Actress Shalom Harlow: We can all say Shalom to Shalom Harlow, the Jewish actress who was part of the ensemble cast of...
the arrogance of commitment
well, there you go. i knew it would happen eventually. i tried to tell myself that she’s different, that she’s not one of those “crazy religious people.” but she may very well...
Arab Bomb Victim Backs West Bank Barrier
Geez louise. Is this what it takes to convince people the fence is a good idea? “A month ago I went to protest the fence,” he said, referring to the barrier Israel is building in the West...
Farenheit 9/11
With the Jerusalem Film Festival still running, and the film still on screens across America, a bootleg copy of Michael Moore’s Farenheit 9/11 will be showing at the Jeff Seidel Student Center...