Archive for December, 2004

Happy New Year

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers a Happy New Year.
 
Unlike last year, I will not be posting any links to “___ of 2004″ articles. I simply have not had the time, with work commitments and preparations for the JIB Awards taking up much of my time.
 
As the year [...]

JIB Awards – Categories Closed

Thanks to all for your valuable feedback. The categories have now been closed.
 
Here is the final categories list:
 
Best Overall Blog Best New Blog 2004 Best Group Blog Best Humor Blog Best Designed Blog Best Life in Israel Blog Best Israel Advocacy BlogBest Politics, Current Affairs, and Academia BlogBest Personal Blog Best Religion BlogBest Jewish Culture [...]

Bad Art

AP are running the following photo and caption:
 

In this photo released by the Municipality of Paraiba do Sul, Brazilian Sculptor Ivan Pinto poses next to the cast of a statue of the late Yasser Arafat at his studio in Paraiba do Sul, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sao Paulo in Rio de Janeiro state, [...]

Coping With Reality

Ha’aretz have a fascinating article about how contestants on Israeli hit reality show The Ambassador are coping with real-life fame. Here’s an excerpt:

Daphna Elfansi, the latest participant to be kicked off Channel 2’s reality show “The Ambassador,” is used to being stared at, but recently, the tall, blond, and brand new star says, the attention she [...]

Great News

Spread the word about my favorite spread.

It’s back. After an absence of more than six months, a batch of kosher Vegemite should hit supermarket shelves in the new year, Kosher Australia (KA) announced this week.
 
The general manager of Melbourne’s kashrut authority, Yankel Wajsbort, reported that it had reached an agreement with Vegemite manufacturer Kraft, allowing [...]

Stingy? Naaaa!

UN emergency relief head Jan Egeland, who previously called the US and other governments ’stingy’ with respect to assistance in the wake of the Tsunami, invokes the oft-used “misinterpretation” defence.

The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator said Tuesday that the international response to the tsunami catastrophe in southern Asia has been “very generous” despite earlier comments [...]

Just Call Us “Chopped Liver”

Only yesterday I blogged about Angelina Jolie’s ostensible bias against Israel. Now I have confirmation that perhaps she is no fan of Jews:
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is planning a multi-denominational family by adopting Christian and Muslim babies as little brothers or sisters for her Buddhist son.
The actress adopted three-year-old Maddox in Cambodia in 2002 and [...]

Most Moral Army

Reader “G ” has sent me the following email:

Hi Mate
 
My name is Gilad, I am an Israeli Engineer, currently lives in Sydney. I enjoy your blog, and thought you might find interest in that: those pictures shows the treatment that palastineans “diggers” that has been captured in the tunnel because of heavy rain,  get a [...]

Arabs in the IDF

Ha’aretz reports on an interesting statistic:

New figures made available by the Israel Defense Forces show the number of Muslim and Christian Arab Israeli volunteers in the army is growing.  The deaths of five soldiers from the IDF’s Desert Reconnaissance Unit (the so-called Bedouin unit) in an attack on an army outpost near Rafah earlier this month [...]

Where Sympathies Lie

Could this picture (warning: some people may find it disturbing) carry a hint as to why Sri Lanka rejected Israel’s offer to send rescue teams? (hat tip: LGF)
 
Don’t see what I am talking about? Look at the Sri Lankan man, in the background, wearing the black shirt.