Today in Jews, August 23, 2011 (Los Angeles) With Jews under attack in Israel and strange news from J Celebs in the press, revolution in Libya, earthquake near DC, it’s just been a very busy...
Tag - Israel
The Crown Heights Pogrom
As the press and the community asses the history of those days with 20 years of distance, more and more evidence shows that the “riots” was actually a “pogrom”. The Jewish...
Tamargo’s Big Gay Israeli Wedding
I’m sitting here in Simi Valley, California, working on Camp Jewlicious and the lush setting brings me back… Last week I was in Abu Ghosh where I was blessed to attend the wedding of my...
Hummus Harvest
Gust post by Joe Tomino, drummer for Matisyahu and Dub Trio On my fifth trip to Israel I made it my mission get my hummus on. I decided I would sample some of the hummus I’ve had on previous...
The Story of Ami and Bar Ami
There once was a man who was having a conference about a crisis affecting Israel. He had a friend named Ami that he wanted to invite to speak. There happened to be another man in town named Bar Ami...
Shameful New York Times Editorial About Israel Arab Conflict
It has come to this. The NY Times reveals plainly what many of us have known for years now: the only way to defend the politically correct line that the Palestinians are not really to blame for the...
Israel, The In Vitro Capital Of The World
According to an article by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times, Israel is the undisputed champion of in vitro fertilization, and likely all other fertility treatments. The country pays for these...
Flotilla victory?
Amid this conclusion, the pessimist in me cannot help but ask if the flotilla organizers and their well-funded backers lost a pawn in exchange for a rook, if they took a step back while preparing to...