Archive for April 16th, 2007

Switching Gere

Hollywood actor Richard Gere has angered millions of Indians, with some even burning his effigy. What makes this particularly interesting is that we are not talking of fundamentalist Muslims….nor any infraction involving a gerbil.
Angry crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere yesterday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress into his arms [...]

Gotto Love the Voight

Ever since watching The Odessa File, I’ve liked Hollywood actor Jon Voight as an actor. My admiration for him as a human being probably began when I heard of his contributions to many noble causes, including efforts to commute the life sentence of Jonathan Pollard, and the annual Chabad Telethon.
[Many would also list among his [...]

The Silence

Today we marked Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Memorial Day.
It commenced last night as our leadership (if we can call it that) participated in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, and continued today, beginning with a two-minute-long siren at 10:00AM which brought most of Israel to a standstill.
As fate would have it, I happened to be in [...]

Beware Infidels!

…Jemaah Islamiah is coming to getcha.

Southeast Asian militant network Jemaah Islamiah has formed an assassination squad to attack police, prosecutors and judges, a Singapore newspaper said today, citing an Indonesian official.
 
Ansyaad Mbai, head of the anti-terrorism division at Indonesia’s security ministry, said the group planned to target a list of “infidels” including the rector of a [...]