The latest nonsense to come out of the Israel-is-Always-Wrong-No-Matter-What crew is the #JSIL hash tag, meant to liken the State of Israel to the crazies at ISIS. New York Magazine, in an article...
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Love and Semen In A Time of War
NEWS FROM OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE Earlier this year, it was reported that Haifa’s Rambam Hospital’s fertility clinic was in crisis. Supplies of sperm samples were low –...
Blinded By The Light Casualty Rate In Israel
I spoke to my son Eli at the Gaza border earlier today. He told me that a number of the Israeli deaths have come about by civilians either directly attacking soldiers or distracting them so that they...
The 600: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen
Tank cannon to the left of me, tank cannon to the right of me, tank cannon directly over my head roared the 600. – – Due to a combination of budget cuts and the retirement of its older...
IDF Tweet Moves Markets
On Thursday, as the world was reading about Alice Munro, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, the IDF SpokesModel (perhaps mad that Philip Roth was not the prize winner) tweeted that...
The Protest Against Brooklyn DA’s Office for Sam Kellner
Protest supporting Sam Kellner, anti-sex abuse advocate in the ultra-Orthodox community; Israel attacks Syrian arms site; a new documentary by director Arik Bernstein tells Israeli history through...
Haredi Mob Attacks Orthodox IDF Soldier
The Times of Israel reports: An ultra-Orthodox IDF soldier was attacked by dozens of ultra-Orthodox men in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood Tuesday night. He managed to escape the mob, who beat...
The Harlem Shake in Israel: IDF Armour Unit
Look. I grew up in the diaspora. The young Jews I was used to looked like doughy teenagers well into their 30’s. Now that I live in Jerusalem, I need to be reminded that those big tough guys...