‘Natural Born Killers’ Murdered ‘Jewish Sounding’ Victim
Anti-Semitism in some parts is apparently so rampant, it's enough to have a Jewish sounding name for your life to be in danger. A couple of rampaging murderers who are up for several murders in Oregon and California, said in a jailhouse interview after their arrest that one of their victims, Cody Myers, was killed because he had a "Jewish sounding" last name. Myers happened to be a devout but extremely unlucky Christian.
Black Leaders Want Hikind’s Head for Purim Blackface (+ Video)
Setting race relations back to the 1860s…
Israeli Media ‘Crucifying’ Windsurfer who Said ‘Shma Israel’ and Lost
She told an Israeli reporter about her plans: "I get on the surfboard, say 'Shma Israel, Hashem Elokeino Hashem Echad' and I go to war."
‘First Jewish Leader of the Labour Party’ Enjoys Yiddish, Chicken Soup, But No Marxism
"I am not religious. But I am Jewish. My relationship with my Jewishness is complex. But whose isn’t?" writes the leader of the Labour Party and of the opposition in parliament, Ed Miliband, in the New Statesman.
Syria ‘Solving’ its Palestinian Problem and No One Seems to Mind
There have been no rallies in Europe or Berkeley, not even in Ramallah.
The Zionist Girl the Jewish Federations Love to Hate
My friend and colleague Lori Lowenthal Marcus writes today in Arutz 7 about her entanglements with the Jewish Federations of North America, and how, instead of confirming or denying a simple question she posed to them, they chose instead to start a campaign of personal attacks against her.
Kerry: Democracy Is What We say It is
Remember how we used to call him Boston Brahmin—what's happened to that?
Why I Love Working at the Jewish Press (I)
I plan to make this a series of articles, pointing out how the Jewish Press effectively removes the poison from the fangs of the Jewish media stories, putting things in context and perspective and providing a Truth that represents both reality, and by definition, our Torah values.
The Cost Effectiveness of Fighting Evil
The Torah certainly does not teach us to compromise with evil.
Technology Can Save Lives, Even in Borough Park
The Asifa was a sober and responsible approach to a real problem, and I was impressed by the quickness with which the organizers responded to the potential pitfalls of being portrayed as Luddites, which does not befit a nation of scholars and questioners.
Surfer Rabbi Running for Senate, Ruffling Muslim, Tea Party, Feathers
A rabbi running for the U.S. Senate told a cheering audience, “I am an Islamaphobe and everything we need to know about Islam, we learned on 9/11.”
Netanyahu’s Leg Put in a Cast – Could Be First Divine Warning…
During a soccer game on Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slipped on the grass and stressed a leg tendon. Will Bibi be able to recognize the divine warning that was delivered with his injury?
‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ – in Detroit Packard Plant
No one knows if the sign is an ironic comment on the company's treatment of its employees.
Video: In Role Reversal, McCain Critical of Obama’s ‘in Your Face’ on Pakistan
What's wrong with this picture? Why didn't anybody tell me Sen. John McCain has joined the left wing of the Democratic party?
Liberman: ‘We Should Consider Reoccupying Gaza’ – Again?
In Liberman's book, our memory is about 8 months long, give or take.
Cartoon Rehab: For Whom the iBell Tolls
This July 2, 2011 cartoon, by Ad-Dustur, was headlined: "Apple Bows to Israeli Pressure and Removes the Palestinian Intifada Website." The argument against Apple wasn't so outrageous, free speech and all, but the choice to go with a Jew (further identified by the star of David on the hat) was just unnecessarily nasty.
They Own It
Let's face it, if we wanted to be on Temple Mount, we'd have been there.
Say It Like You Mean it: It’s a ‘Colony Freeze’
"Colony construction on Palestinian land was the main reason for the breakdown of US-sponsored negotiations in 2010."
Jewish Black Youth Wins Third Irish Dance Competition
What's a good Jewish Press Story for the Irish national day of beer and more beer? We've got one for you! It's about Drew Lovejoy, 17, from Greenville, Ohio, who is the son of a black Baptist from Georgia and a white Jewish mother from Iowa. But his fame is international, after winning the all-Ireland dancing championship in Dublin for a third straight year.
Will ‘Jesus’s Wife’ Parchment Alter Christianity?
Probably not, but it's fun to consider "that man" coupled with what logically must have been known as "that woman."
US Envoy to Top Islamic Group Taking Muslims to Holocaust Sites
For the record, Rashad Hussain is a nice guy.
Haredim Throw Rocks, Eggs, at ‘Abomination Apartment’
Pashkvils (warning posters) were spread around the neighborhood, criticizing women wearing tight clothes, calling them "animals." According to the website Hadrei Haredim, the woman in question is being accused of luring young Haredi women to her path.
First They Impose Gun Control, Then They Send You to Auschwitz
Samuel Wurzelbacher aka “Joe the Plumber” is in hot water (which, professionally speaking, he should be able to repair) over his comments blaming the Holocaust on gun control.
So You Want to Boycott Israel? (Video)
Very clever clip, an 8-minute list of endless Jewish contributions to the civilized world.
Mom Driving into the Heart of Darkness
If reality doesn't match our concepts, we can always move reality a few miles over to where it fits.
Is CUNY Planning a Jewish Quota?
CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has stepped into a gigantic mound of odoriferous matter, and it isn't clear if and how he's getting out of it, and, worse, what will the cleaning bill be. What's worse, it's possible he didn't even intend all the mean things people are saying about him. Maybe all he wanted was to help…
Sheldon Cooper’s Girlfriend Speaks at National Museum of American Jewish History about her Bat...
The lovely Mayim Bialik, heartthrob of millions of geeks as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, spoke at the National Museum of American Jewish History to mark the 90th anniversary of the Bat Mitzvah. I absolutely love Mayim, who confessed to nursing her own little boy, Fred, through age 3 ("I believe in child-led weaning"). I just think she may not be the best advocate for rituals of adulthood…
Feminist German Minister Retooling the Creator’s Gender
To many Germans Christians, such a suggestion was an outrage.
Help Save the Stanton St. Shul!
I just received their SOS email: the roof is leaking and time is running out, is, basically, what they wrote.