Archive for July, 2009

Roseanne Barr Digs a Deeper Hole

Roseanne Barr posts on her blog yesterday.
There is so much anti-semitism in this world,
It’s not even funny.
It is as everyday as baking cookies.
Ignorance is not bliss.
Recalling the horrors of the holocaust will not deflect or divert it, as many Jewish people think.
I’m willing to bet that turn of phrase is no coincidence.

And for those of [...]

Moron of the Day

..no question has to be the commenter from yesterday who said:
How strange that the Jewish-run Washington Post is critical of the first US president to openly state that what Israel is doing with regards the illegal settlements is just that; illegal.
After it was pointed out to him that the Washington Post’s owners are not Jewish, [...]

Uncomfortable Silence Time

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Police Sgt. James Crowley- the man who arrested him – sat down together in the White House.

The Day In Israel: Fri July 31st, 2009

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An 86-year-old Israeli man is seeking recognition by the state as having been orphaned by a terrorist attack, 80 years after his father and 4-year-old sister were murdered by Arabs in the 1929 Hebron massacre.
You know. The Arab terror attack on Jews living in the land 19 [...]

Well Qualified to Talk

In his latest column, Shmuley Boteach comments on the Rabbis in New Jersey accused of wrongdoing.
I won’t reproduce the whole thing here, but rather some interesting excerpts:
2. Our community needs a moral and spiritual renaissance. We are good, law-abiding, generous people, but money is becoming too important to us.
You mean like “Rabbis” chasing after celebrity [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs July 30th, 2009

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According to Israel’s Channel 10, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has frozen a project for the construction of approximately 900 apartments in East Jerusalem, a day after his meeting with George Mitchell, Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East.
This news comes out on Tisha B’Av, the [...]

Surprise Article of the Day

Believe it nor not, I found this next piece on Ha’aretz.
Tisha B’Av will last forever,” promised Kamal al-Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, to thousands of cheering Muslims at the Temple Mount a few days ago. Even the hearts of Jews far from the mountain saddened. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas mocked us [...]

Tisha B’Av Takeaways

Today is the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av), on which a whole host of calamities befell the Jewish people (and the world), including:

The sin of the spies causing G-d to decree that the Children of Israel who left Egypt would not be permitted to enter the [...]

Abomination of the Day

Heeb Magazine goes further into the gutter where they meet up with rabidly anti-Israel/anti-Jewish “celebrity” Roseanne Barr.

The Day In Israel: Wed July 29th, 2009

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In an address to the graduating class of the National Security College at a ceremony at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated that palestinians in Gaza would get rid of their Hamas government if they had the power to do so.
I [...]