Latest on Rav Bina: Karate rabbi comes to aid of abuse rabbi [Parsing]

By David A.M. Wilensky February 9, 2012

Rabbi Ari Fuld wrote to Jewish student press hero Yedidya Gorsetman to say, among other things: ‘I truly believe you are an evil person’ for ‘trying to murder Rav Bina with your pen.’ He also compared Gorsetman to a dead fish and began his missive by saying, “I am not trying to threaten you in any way.” Which…

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Israel’s last day envisioned; UC Santa Cruz complaint; Labor strikes in Israel; and more [Required Reading]

By pkessler February 9, 2012

An Israeli filmmaker envisions what Israel’s “last day” would look like, although takes many creative liberties while doing so. However unsettling the video may be, Uriel Heilman notes, it provides a thought provoking, yet unrealistic, depiction of what an attack on Israel and the response would look like. [JTA] Members of the Jewish clergy have…

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(Almost) the First Jewish Ugandan Parliamentarian [Global Jewish Voice]

By Gabriel T. Erbs February 9, 2012

A local Jewish politician campaigns for the goyishe vote – in Uganda: At one time, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, who spent five years at the seminary of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and a year in Israel, was planning to run for Parliament in Uganda – perhaps one day to run for President. […] With…

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Is Israel’s last day something we should be thinking about?

By pkessler February 9, 2012

I’m fairly squeamish. I don’t go on upside down roller coasters. I don’t like horror movies. And upon watching the above video, I’ve come to conclude that however real and present the threat of an attack on Israel is, “what-if” scenarios are not something that should be visualized and posted on YouTube. Such matters are…

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