Meet Lisa Anne Auerbach. A resident of Los Angeles, she recently knitted this waaaay over the top, but still cute sweater/skirt combo after having been inspired by The Great Schlep. You’ll...
Tag - Barack Obama
McCain Polls Ahead of Obama… In the West Bank and Gaza Strip
When they visited the region this past summer, Obama went to Ramallah, McCain didn’t and yet, according to a recent poll, McCain is ahead of Obama in the West bank and Gaza. One-in-three...
Settler Rabbi Endorses… Obama?
I know… not what you’d expect right? But here it is – Rabbi Menachem Frohman, one of the founders of the Zionist settler movement in Israel and the Chief Rabbi of the settlement of...
Les Misbarack
The first Broadway play I ever saw was “Les Miserables.” I remember the anticipation – I had just read the novel by Victor Hugo and was touched by its gritty humanity and could not...
McCain vs. Obama: What Do Israelis Think?
Who cares what they think? It’s a US election! But if you do care, indications are that the same sort of generational/ideological split that is happening in the US vis-a-vis the Presidential...
Small Town Values
With speaker after speaker extolling the virtues of “small town values” at the recent Republican National Convention, Jon Stewart and his crew at the Daily Show investigated what exactly...
I’m Feeling A Little Manipulated Here…
Remember how horrified you were as a Jew when you read that Barack Obama’s Western Wall note was snatched and then republished by Israeli newspaper Maariv? And then afterward, how touched you...
A Barack Obama “Slave” Shirt Everyone Can Love!
While writing that last post about the Apollo Braun / Obama “Slave” shirt controversy, I had a Rodney King moment where I couldn’t help asking myself “Why can’t we all...