Archive for February, 2007

Pet Rock

They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and dogs are a man’s best friend. Meet someone who worked out how to please both sexes. Englishwoman Sue Rogers will never be without her dead dogs and cat after having a diamond ring made from their ashes. A newspaper reported Ms Rogers, from Devon in south-west [...]

Separated at Birth: Tradition Edition

A palestinian protester and Tevye.

New Addition

Head on over to Harry and Ziva’s, and wish them a hearty mazal tov (that’s congratulations for the Hebraically-challenged).

Palestinians in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones (Try Molotov Cocktails Instead)

The Associated Press stringers are at it again. This time, it is the curiously named Nasser Shiyoukhi (the product of a palestinian-Japanese sex romp?) who is not even pretending to feign objectivity. Here is Shiyoukhi’s photo and caption of Israeli border policemen: Israeli border policeman take positions during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers in the [...]

A Close Call

It has been reported that Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel survived a kidnapping attempt in a US hotel last week. Nobel Peace laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel told Haaretz on Thursday he escaped a kidnap attempt in a San Francisco hotel last week. Wiesel, 78, whose novels deal with his experience [...]

The Object

All seemed to be going well for palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas, Khaled Meshaal, and Ismail Haniyeh. That is, until, they came across a strange contraption. “I think it might be a large hand dryer.” “I don’t know. Perhaps it is some kind of telephone?” ” What are you numbskulls talking about? It is clearly a [...]

Death of a Celebrity

But bad taste lives. One of the most discussed topics in the news and blogosphere at the moment, is the untimely death of Hollywood celebrity Anna Nicole Smith. Her death saddens me, as does the death of every human being (I don’t include those involved in terrorism). But that isn’t the point of this post. [...]

Israeli News Briefs

Hamas and Fatah have signed a unity government deal. No comment has yet been made as to whether they will now be known as Hatah or Fatas. UNIFIL has confirmed Israel’s version of events that concluded in an exchange of fire between the IDF and Lebanese Army at the border yesterday. Meanwhile, the flying pig [...]

Bet You Didn’t Know They Were Jewish #9

Bet You Didn’t Know They Were Jewish #9

Today’s Jew: Is a Golden Globe-winning American actress and dancer Appeared in Jon Bon Jovi’s music video Always Starred in a show, the ratings for which dropped significantly due to a drastic change in hairstyle, resulting in new policies at the network requiring hairstyle changes by cast members to be approved by the network’s executives [...]

A Tale of Two Schools

Read and be amazed. It’s infant prize day at King David School, a state primary in Moseley, Birmingham. The children sit cross-legged on the floor, their parents fiddling with their video cameras. The head, Steve Langford, is wearing a Sesame Street tie. A typical end-of-term school event, then. But at King David there’s a twist [...]