Having lived in Israel for over three years, something that I have yet to come to terms with is the desire on the part of many Israelis to undermine the government’s attempts to protect them. Reader Chris L. has drawn my attention to yet another example of this. An Israeli fashion house plans to shoot [...]
The little guy in my banner is in trouble. Cute, cuddly and fast breeding, thousands of koalas are eating themselves out of a home on an Australian island. But authorities are refusing to heed conservationists’ pleas to reduce the population, fearing a backlash from tourists and animal rights activists. South Australia state Environment Minister John [...]
Unles you have been living in a cave, you will have realized that Mel Gibson’s new movie The Passion has generated much controversy, with some questioning Mel’s motives. Some may now be wondering whether the devil made him do it. Tickets at one movie theater screening Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” are being [...]
In Jordan, they say marriage is forever. Especially, when you forget to file your divorce papers. A Jordanian woman received formal divorce papers 42 years after her husband left, and long after she remarried and had children, the official Petra news agency said on Sunday. The 68-year-old man divorced his wife verbally in 1962, but [...]
“I wish to God that the Labour Party had the guts to get rid of Blair, because it could survive another election without him. “I think it’s too important for world affairs that he’s gone. I think globally he is a dangerous man.” – Singer George Michael, forgetting that any man who ever encounters him [...]
Shmuley Boteach’s website has had a rough beginning. As I previously reported, his request for adulatory comments on his blog backfired. Now, I have noticed that his self-congratulatory biography contains a glaring, humorous error. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, named by Talkers Magazine as one of the hundred most important radio hosts in America, is a nationally [...]
Has blogging really taken off? Not according to a new study. The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study released Sunday, found that somewhere between 2 percent and 7 percent of adult Internet users in the United States actually keep their own blogs. Of those, only about 10 percent update them daily, the [...]
