Everything was going well for Colin Powell as he spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. That is, until the unidentified man wearing a purple band around his neck decided to accept his friend’s dare. Moments later, Colin Powell was grimacing in pain. (Reuters)
What’s this? We seem to have struck a nerve with the French: In an interview with Army Radio Thursday, French Ambassador to Israel Gerard Araud took a far less conciliatory stance than he took just a couple of days ago in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. “I think you have an anti-French neurosis,” Araud [...]
This week, I discovered that two Jewish blogs were no more: Protocols and Reb Lazer’s Shtibble. While both were concerned with Jewish content, you could not find two more different blogs. In my mind, Protocols was nothing more than a glorified Jewish gossip blog. While important Jewish issues were covered, it was hardly the place for [...]
Hollywood actor Alan Rickman, known for mostly playing villains and jerks in the movies, may not be such a good actor after all. There is a strong chance these roles were not such a stretch for him. Alan Rickman is about to become the latest Hollywood star to light the blue touchpaper on the powderkeg [...]
There is more to dude than meets the eye… Dude, you’ve got to read this. A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering the word “dude,” contending it is much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters, slackers and teenagers. An admitted dude-user during [...]
Last night I watched the third instalment of The Ambassador. [To say this show is addictive would be an understatement. And I am sure fellow Hasbara (Israel advocacy) junkies would agree with me]. Last night, both the men’s and women’s teams were given the task of creating an advertisement for promoting Israel, and [...]
