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Crossposted from hipsterjew.com Maybe hip hop has just moved on from the Beastie Boys. I don’t want to be the one to say it, but listening to Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is, while not painful, not something I’d do more than twice. All the problems of the album you can hear on track 3, […]
Only in Israel… [Ha’aretz] I’ll be honest: This is here only because the words “New Voices” are in the title. [NYT] Interesting piece on the hunt for Ivan Demjanjuk. [Forward] Leonard Fein goes to Sderot and Gaza. [Forward] The first Jewish mayor of the Second City. [Tablet]
The other day, I was talking to my boyfriend Nick about God (I am religious and he is not). He asked me why I believe in God? My initial response was “because,” but then, I paused and thought more about it. Why do I believe in God? If there is a God, why do so […]
Mahmoud Abbas claimed today Israel was solely responsible for the Palestinian exodus of 1948. That is not what he has said in the past. As if Mahmoud Abbas were looking for more ways to risk Palestinian public relations after the coalition deal with Hamas, Abbas remarked today in his editorial for the New York Times […]
Nakba Day this Year Saw Unprecedented Violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Above, Palestinians in a well organized breach of the Israeli-Syrian border on the Golan Heights. Recognizing the nakba at this juncture would be a timid response to a day whose events were inspired as much by either the Arab Spring or prodding from a […]
Yesterday’s tragic events–a terrorist in Tel Aviv killed an innocent man and the IDF shot and killed several people trying to breach the Israeli-Syrian border–are the latest results, in part, of the battle between two competing historical narratives: one that commemorates the fifth of Iyyar as a miraculous Day of Independence and another that marks […]
Really long version crossposted at Crystal Decadenz I predicted that about eleven o’clock was the latest I could show up Saturday in time for Kaddish, but of course I got in a little early, right before the Torah reading. I looked at my watch and decided next week I could come in half an hour […]
A brilliant, though morally dubious, satire of the Bin Laden killing. [Galactic Empire Times] A hilariously appropriate response to the Der Tzeitung-Hillary Clinton fiasco. [Feministe] Turning the Der Tzeitung-HC fiasco into a meme. [Hasidic Photoshop] Who said falafel could unite Israelis and Palestinians? In Brooklyn, it’s another excuse to fight. [The Brooklyn Paper] A clever idea: limericks […]
Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) was celebrated with flair in Vancouver, thanks in large part to an Israeli band called Mozaica. The group performed songs in Hebrew and kept the crowd moving. In addition, the night had all the fixings of an Independence Day ceremony; speeches, a moment of silence, and Hatikva, Israel’s national anthem. […]
This is what happens when the Maccabeats and Fountainheads can’t get their acts together. The best part is the voice crack on “Yeah!’ Ben Laden: still at large. [The Faster Times] This is the best response I’ve ever seen to attempted university censorship of a college paper. [College Media Matters] Here’s funnyman Joel Chasnoff being funny in […]