Archive for September 27th, 2009

Yom Kippur

Tonight and tomorrow Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I wish you all a G’mar Chatima Tova – may you be sealed in the Book of Life. Blogging will resume some time after Yom Kippur ends, tomorrow evening Israel time.

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

The antics of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi/Gadaffi/Khadafy/[enter your own variant here] have gotten to even his own staff. After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in translation. “I just can’t take it any more,” Khadafy’s interpreter shouted into the live [...]

The Day In Israel: Sun Sept 27th, 2009

In the wake of evidence being presented of a clandestine Iranian nuclear facility, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the US House Speaker, as well as Senators and Congress members that now is the time to act against Iran. “If not now, then when,” Netanyahu reportedly said in the conversations with American officials. “Action must [...]