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April 30, 2004

Sleazy UN functionaries Dept.

I haven't been blogging about the UN Oil-for-Palaces scandal because other bloggers with much larger readership than KT have been carrying the ball. (And here's the place to go for breaking news on the topic.) But I keep noticing how much writhing and spinning is engaged in by the sainted Kofi Annan. Not to mention the guy who actually ran the program.

OTOH, Kofi briefly grew a partial spine while chastising Arafat.

UPDATE: Scathing review of the sainted Kofi's career.

Judith | 04/30/04 at 03:59 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Our NGO Masters

April 29, 2004

Major combat operations have ended

Good news, everyone: the google bomb worked. Jewwatch is no longer even on the first page for google searches on the word "Jew." Among many other stalwart blogs, Kesher Talk proudly did its part in the vital defense of ethnic self-definition. Am yisrael chai!

Judith | 04/29/04 at 06:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

I was kinda hoping that Joe Leiberman would cross the aisle for this election, like Zell Miller and Ed Koch, but no such luck. He's campaigning with Kerry to the Florida Jews. Gotta win Florida . . .

(See what I mean about Zell Miller? A mensch.)

Continue reading "Anyone but Kerry Dept."

Judith | 04/29/04 at 11:40 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Way Cool Stuff

What a sweet idea, and certainly a grand and ancient tradition too.

Fold proteins in your spare time. Or rather, in your computer's CPU's spare time. (via Oxblog)

Wow. Sorry I missed this. I am most emphatically not a morning person, but I would have gotten up and over to the Hudson to see the QM2 steam in. Actually that would be a nice short early morning walk in our newly warm weather from my apartment. If I was a morning person, that is.

The consumer's guide to body armour, in case you're planning a trip to a combat zone. (via Gary)

UPDATE: Darn. Take One for the Country is a hoax. But I still think it's a sweet idea, and maybe someone will organize it for real. (Not me - I'm not comfortable in bars and I'm too old.)

Judith | 04/29/04 at 11:12 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Amazing things

Jolly good, A.L., carry on!

Winds of Change continues on a roll with this fisking of retired British Foreign Office wallahs. They wrote an indignant open letter to Tony Blair full of the usual Arabist stuff and nonsense. Via a commenter: links to additional spankings administered to their excellencies by the Times and Telegraph. Via Melanie Phillips: It's all about Israel, of course.

Continue reading "Jolly good, A.L., carry on!"

Judith | 04/29/04 at 09:29 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Across the Pond

April 28, 2004

Legalities

Andrew thinks Canada's limited legitimization of sharia law is "a horrifying turn of events." But

. . . the arbitration act establishes a number of safeguards, including the requirement that parties enter into arbitration only on a voluntary basis. Any decisions by arbitrators are subject to court ratification. Canadian officials said that no criminal matters would be considered by sharia arbitrators and no corporal punishment could be imposed. Crawley said that legal provisions in other provinces also permit such tribunals.

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Judith | 04/28/04 at 06:02 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Comparative Religion

Perfidious Euroweenie Dept.

MEP Ilka Schr�der, scourge of EU-sponsored antisemitism, is still on the case. (via LGF comments, and the comment itself is pretty interesting.)

Judith | 04/28/04 at 05:15 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

The tortoise and the hare

Lies have already encircled the globe countless times on the alleged "Jenin massacre." Truth finally gets out of bed and puts on its shoes, in the form of a TV documentary about the grossly irresponsible media response to the 2002 Israeli incursion into Jenin. Damin Penny quotes Rick McGinness on two "gotcha" moments:

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Judith | 04/28/04 at 12:37 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

Steyn. Nailing it as usual

What a strange world the Middle East is. For 10 years, in northern Iraq, the Kurds have run a pleasant, civilised, pluralist, democratic de facto state, but external realities require them to be denied one de jure. For the same period, in the West Bank and Gaza the Palestinian Authority�s thugs, incompetents and bespoke apologists have been lavished with EU aid and transformed their land into an ugly, bankrupt Arafatist squat. But external realities require the world to defer to the "Chairman" as a de jure head of state, lacking merely a state to head.

Continue reading "Steyn. Nailing it as usual"

Judith | 04/28/04 at 11:53 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

Blog roundup

A roundup of Iraqi blogs at Buzzmachine, leading off with a scathing indictment of the UN's proposed role.

A 9-11 reminiscence. He was on his way to City Hall in a cab when the planes hit, and he came back days later to help with search and rescue.

Iowahawk is all over the 9-11 commission.

Could you make this stuff up?

Judith | 04/28/04 at 09:45 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

Jews in odd places: Cuba

The Jewish Week finds Passover practiced in the socialist dictatorship:

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William | 04/28/04 at 09:00 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 27, 2004

From the horse's mouth

Lynn B attended a talk in Philadelphia, by a Palestinian journalist who now lives in Israel and works for the JPost. Everything you wanted to know about tyranny under Arafat, including suppression of real journalism, summary executions, celebrating 9-11, and more.

Continue reading "From the horse's mouth"

Judith | 04/27/04 at 06:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Gaza and Palestine

The revolution is being blogged right now

David Adesnik on George Packer on blogging. I think Packer is about 90% right and David is a wee bit defensive.

Blogs are changing the face of media and journalism in the aggregate, but Packer's observations are more true than not in the particulars.

Continue reading "The revolution is being blogged right now"

Judith | 04/27/04 at 05:43 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

A question for the doves

Great discussion at the always excellent Winds of Change, on a viable US approach to global terrorism, here and here. This was stimulated by Armed Liberal's critique of Jim Henley's proposal for an isolationist strategy. Demosophia also critiques Henley.

This is one of those arguments that make clear how much God and the Devil are in the details. Can a strategy be implemented? If not, is it much of a strategy? This reminds me of my arguments with advocates against the war who would maintain that the sanctions or the UN inspections were "working." I would say "What does 'working' mean? What is the goal? Is it being accomplished?" Some of them would splutter for a bit, but some would have facts and figures and then we could have a real discussion.

Judith | 04/27/04 at 01:03 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: WWIV

The Swiss giveth and the Swiss taketh away

Apparently even the 67 armistice lines aren't "legal" enough for the Swiss government.

Zurich (JTA) � Switzerland boycotted a ceremony honoring a Swiss citizen who saved Jews during World War II because it was held in a Jerusalem neighborhood that came into Israeli hands during the 1967 Six-Day War. The Swiss ambassador to Israel was ordered to stay away from Monday�s ceremony in Pisgat Zeev honoring Paul Grueninger.

However:

Twenty Swiss teachers arrived Tuesday for the inauguration of a street named for Grueninger after learning from the Jerusalem Post that the Swiss government had instructed its ambassador to boycott the ceremony.

Judith | 04/27/04 at 10:03 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

April 26, 2004

More in the 'Anyone But...' Department

In the current issue of Mother Jones, there's a series of articles exploring the impacts of the Bush presidency. Among them, Foreign Policy: The End of Empire, Losing Friends and Alienating People, and Rolling Back Rights admirably express some . . . more »

Judith | 04/26/04 at 04:15 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea

April 25, 2004

Slightly less wacky than Vannunu

It is often amusing to watch political events move faster than ideology can keep up: . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 09:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

I'm not superficial - I'm just drawn that way

Tim Blair and Andy Bizub both note lots of empathy from the antiwar camp for wounded soldiers. Cartoon soldiers, that is. . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 08:10 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Exchange program

This is pretty nifty: The Scholar Rescue Fund. . . . more »

William | 04/25/04 at 07:37 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tikkun olam

Yom yom

YomHa-Zikkaron. Yom Ha-Atzmaut. . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 07:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Holy Days

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

Krauthammer gets to the heart of my aversion to a Kerry presidency: foreign policy characterized by obeisance toward the UN (up to its armpits in corruption) and the vague concept of some "community of nations" which the US has . . . more »

Judith | 04/25/04 at 11:59 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

April 23, 2004

The red and the blue

Political fundraising in my neighborhood, midtown Manhattan. Political fundraising in my former neighborhood, Austin, TX. . . . more »

Judith | 04/23/04 at 01:43 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Cultish weirdos Dept.

Last week was the eleventh anniversary of the end of the Waco seige. Jim Davila of the always excellent Paleojudaica has tons of links. And this week (via Gary, who still gets the best most obscure links - for . . . more »

Judith | 04/23/04 at 12:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Bloggers we know and love

It's Meryl's third, that's right, THIRD, blogiversary. (Which would make her 65 in dog years, or something . . . ) Meryl is your one-stop shopping for guest blogging by the Hulk, kitty zen, the very best in Juvenile . . . more »

Judith | 04/23/04 at 09:45 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

April 22, 2004

Keeping tabs on Rep. Jim Moran

ROLL CALL 4/22/04 One More Time. This is getting to be a regular thing with the endlessly embattled Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). In the latest incident, Moran has formally apologized to a group of veterans he angrily kicked out of . . . more »

William | 04/22/04 at 04:09 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea

Sleazy UN functionaries Dept.

Here's a photo of the hub of the UN Oil-for-Palaces scandal. Supposedly hiding out somewhere in Australia. What a nice guy. Not. . . . more »

Judith | 04/22/04 at 01:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Iraq

Nice Jewish Girl, Meet Sleazy New York Burlesque

She promised her mother she wouldn�t take her clothes off. But she didn�t say no one else would. And so, each Monday in March � mixed in with stand-up comedy and soulful acoustic guitar � Susannah Perlman (aka �The Goddess�) . . . more »

William | 04/22/04 at 09:05 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Doing Jewish

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

I had dinner with Israeli blogger Allison when she was in NYC for Pesach, and she told me all her liberal American friends were fussing and fuming about Bush and Iraq, and - like a good journalist - she . . . more »

Judith | 04/22/04 at 01:13 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Ding dong Dept.

Speaking of Rantisi, Protocols notes a fawning portrait in the NYTimes: The Nicest Terrorist I Ever Met. . . . more »

Judith | 04/22/04 at 12:04 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

April 21, 2004

Memo to Verizon

I want to bring to your attention the interesting fact that when I first signed up for DSL service, it took 3 days for the modem to arrive and the service to be switched on, whereas now that I . . . more »

Judith | 04/21/04 at 11:54 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

Cool stuff

Brits indulge their passion for wordplay. Rejected letters to Penthouse. (This is in the same vein as gentile jokes.) Buried amidst all the retro flotsam on Lileks' site is a '53 travel guide to Baghdad. Did you know that . . . more »

Judith | 04/21/04 at 09:22 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Amazing things

Jews in odd places: Harlem

For the last 55 years, in his stall in East Harlem�s La Marqueta at 115th and Park, 87-year-old Bernard Lifschultz has sawed the ends off stacks of dried cod and tossed countless spiky fish tails into an orange plastic . . . more »

William | 04/21/04 at 08:56 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 20, 2004

Shoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day was yesterday, and I blew it off as usual. I figure since both of my parents were refugees, I've got the remembrance covered. (I know that's glib - the all-night ritual of reading the names is . . . more »

Judith | 04/20/04 at 03:33 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Holy Days

Jews in odd places: South Africa

And they are experiencing the pitfalls of liberalism: . . . more »

William | 04/20/04 at 08:28 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 19, 2004

McKinney watch

Not only is disgraced former-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney running for her old seat, she can't help but beg for news coverage: . . . more »

Judith | 04/19/04 at 01:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea

Jews in odd places: Norway

The Norwegian Arts Council has granted funding to the Jewish community and the Oslo City Museum to establish a Jewish Museum in Oslo. The museum should be open by 2005. "It is certainly timely and important for us to . . . more »

William | 04/19/04 at 08:14 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 18, 2004

Ding dong the witch is dead Dept.

Yasher koach, IDF. Allah has all the links you need. . . . more »

Judith | 04/18/04 at 09:36 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

Bloggus Interruptus

Blogging has been light while I wait for $&&%^%!!! Verizon to turn on my phone in my new apartment. Meanwhile, the Starbucks on the corner next to a Verizon Hotspot will do. (Since Verizon WiFi comes with my phone/DSL . . . more »

Judith | 04/18/04 at 09:33 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Tedious details

More causes the Left is wrong about

William Sjostrom discusses: Stopping child labor. Regulating housing prices. . . . more »

Judith | 04/18/04 at 05:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 16, 2004

Blog roundup - political humor

Protein Wisdom is all over Air America - start here and scroll forward. And check out his Theresa Heinz Kerry on Barbara Walters series. Allah is all over John F'n Kerry. (This one is good too.) . . . more »

Judith | 04/16/04 at 01:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea

Blog roundup

Sylvain Galineau notes opportunistic ethics. When Nixon visited Jerusalem in 1974. NZ Bear on self-destructive memes in Palestinian culture. Head Heeb discusses one example by contrasting the treatment of Palestinian refugees and Eastern European refugees of WWII who ended . . . more »

Judith | 04/16/04 at 11:39 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

April 15, 2004

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

Mark Steyn sees some implications for foreign policy in trying too hard to be hip. . . . more »

Judith | 04/15/04 at 07:40 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

April 14, 2004

Communication

Israeli and Arab journalists are collaborating on a new venture called Duet. Ben Lynfield writes, "Leading Jewish and Arab members of Israel's fourth estate are coming together to alleviate ignorance and mistrust between their communities. The joint venture, a . . . more »

Judith | 04/14/04 at 11:57 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

April 13, 2004

Bamidbar

Pesach ended today at sundown, and here's an essay on one of the seder rituals to mark the occasion. (Today is the 8th day of counting the omer.) UPDATE: Patrick is also celebrating the end of Pesach, with bread . . . more »

Judith | 04/13/04 at 11:01 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

Americans have short attention spans

Some people have been asking for benchmarks or metrics for how the Iraq occupation/liberation is going. This is reasonable, and many mertics have been offered. (If I can find the URLs among the hundreds of bookmarks I've been piling . . . more »

Judith | 04/13/04 at 09:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Nation-building

Would you rather be a senile TV news personality or a mensch?

Michele fisks Andy Rooney's "when are you going to stop beating your wife" interview questions and links to all the other fisks of same. And she suggest some replacement questions for our soldiers in Iraq: . . . more »

Judith | 04/13/04 at 09:17 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

Of interest

The new issue of Bad Subjects includes a number of articles which might be of interest to Kesher Talk readers, among them Loolwa Khazzoom's excellent American, Iraqi, Jewish: So It Makes Sense for Me to Live in Israel and . . . more »

Judith | 04/13/04 at 08:11 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Linkfest

International multilateral cooperation

Sadr's attempt at a power-grab was planned in London. . . . more »

Judith | 04/13/04 at 12:42 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Iraq

April 12, 2004

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

Heh. (In all fairness I would not expect the Bush campaign to handle this any better. Most politicians still don't get the Internet, much less blogging and making web pages.) Charles makes a good point. (Screen captures here.) . . . more »

Judith | 04/12/04 at 02:08 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Jews in odd places: Tunisia

The leader of the Tunisian Jewish community is an associate of the country�s autocratic leader and sometimes prefers a Friday-night drink rather than a Sabbath meal. Roger Bismuth is the modern-day version of the shtadlan, a Hebrew term given . . . more »

William | 04/12/04 at 08:51 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 11, 2004

Fact-checking your ass Dept.

Check this out at Belmont Club:The circumstances fueling the account by Lee Gordon of the London Telegraph has so many eerie similarities to the New York Times John Burns piece on the Golden Mosque that they fairly jump out. . . . more »

Judith | 04/11/04 at 11:46 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

While it's still Pesach. . . .

Matzoh jokes! . . . more »

William | 04/11/04 at 01:21 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

International cooperation

Fourteen DC cops were sent to Israel to learn techniques for preventing and reacting to suicide bombers, and they returned very impressed by Israeli law enforcement. (The trip was arranged and paid for by JINSA.) . . . more »

Judith | 04/11/04 at 12:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Good news from Israel

Jews in odd places: Tunisia

This weekend, the island of Djerba will mark the second anniversary of an al-Qaeda terrorist bombing of an ancient synagogue that rocked this normally quiet resort. . . . more »

William | 04/11/04 at 09:02 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

Kool taktile kulture stuff

Would you rather have your environment coated with Peeps? Or tinfoil? Or perhaps bubblewrap? I went through a phase where I thought I waned to be an artisan bookbinder and create works like this. Make your own blogger license . . . more »

Judith | 04/11/04 at 01:31 AM | Categories: - Amazing things

April 09, 2004

Happy anniversary, Iraq!

Read what a couple of Iraqis have to say about the first anniversary of the dismantling of Saddam's statue. (Scroll down for more.) Fitting that this coincides with Pesach (today is the 4th day of eight and the 3rd . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 05:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Iraq

In another universe

In view of the 20-20 hindsight being shown by the 9-11 panel, it might be instructive to consider these alternate histories, in which the WTC attack never happened - because we pre-emptively took out Al Queda: . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 03:12 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - 9-11 and its ilk

Blog roundup

New Iraqi blogs! More new Iraqi blogs! And more Iraqi blogs! Bush isn't just Hitler anymore, notes Mary, he's . . . Satan. "Tom Paine" fisks an Australian antiwar rally (with pix!). The last anecdote is telling. Lileks fisks . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 02:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

Miscellany

I'm not a political pundit by nature; I'm happier talking about religion. But Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote compellingly that no religious man could legitimately ignore the Civil Rights movement and still call himself a man of God, so I . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 01:50 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Condi in 2008 Dept.

Some transcripts: Edited by a local station. See what was left out. Rice does a little aikido on Kerrey. Chris Matthews misrepresents Rice. Bill Herbert factchecks some attempts to take issue with Rice's testimony. Huge link roundup of reactions . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 10:54 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

It's 1936 - do you know where your liberties are?

Maybe I'll annotate this with links when I get a minute. Any one else want to take a crack at it? . . . more »

Judith | 04/09/04 at 12:08 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Munich Massacre

April 08, 2004

Anyone but Kerry Dept.

Welcome to my new weekly feature (not expressive of the political leanings of everyone on this blog). Kerry shoots himself in the foot again. "Let's talk about healthcare." Lileks fisks Kerry again. The company he keeps. (Previous ABK post here.) . . . more »

Judith | 04/08/04 at 12:21 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Jews in odd places: Russia

Zaur Gilalov, a successful businessman and the head of the World Congress of Mountain Jews, was shot to death in Moscow at the beginning of March. He was killed in broad daylight by two unidentified gunmen not far from his . . . more »

William | 04/08/04 at 08:46 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

Jews in odd places: Uganda

The Observer asks why the Jews of Ethiopia are being accepted into Israel, but the Jews of Uganda are not:Israel is now planning to fetch home some of the most scattered Jews, the Falasha tribesmen of Ethiopia, but for this . . . more »

William | 04/08/04 at 08:33 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Jews in odd places

April 07, 2004

Of interest

I forgot to note the 10th anniversary of spam several weeks ago. Actually, I remember the furor over the Canter-Siegel email. I forgot I'd been online that long. That's scary. Speaking of scary uses of computer technology: Unfortunate ad . . . more »

Judith | 04/07/04 at 06:32 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Linkfest

Google war update

In the war for the search engine results for "Jew," the Forces of Light seem to have beaten back the Forces of Darkness for the time being. But let's not get complacent, folks. I just googled "Jew" and Jewwatch . . . more »

Judith | 04/07/04 at 02:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

April 06, 2004

D'oh!

Tonight at sundown the second day of Pesach begins, which means it's time to start counting the Omer, the "measured" days between Pesach and Shavuot. Worried that you might forget to count, and thereby miss out on the mitzvah? Now . . . more »

Judith | 04/06/04 at 04:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

April 05, 2004

Ma nishtana ha leila ha ze

Where are you for seder this year? asks Imshin. I am an example of successful seder matching, being a guest at two different homes of shul members. Even people I know, and a short subway ride away, and who are . . . more »

Judith | 04/05/04 at 03:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

April 04, 2004

Pesach begins tomorrow night

Passover: Why do we call it that? "Why name a holiday after one part of a single plague," asks Rabbi Max Weiman. "What about the other nine? What about the leaving of slavery for freedom? What about the splitting . . . more »

Rachel | 04/04/04 at 07:55 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

Blog roundup

Go over to Intel Dump and help Phil buy more server space and a domain name. Intel Dump is an invaluable source of military analysis and opinion from someone with lots of inside knowledge and no partisan ax to . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 07:13 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

A method to the madness

From a response to Hitchens' article in the WSJ: . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 04:13 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Iraq

Traitors

Naturei Karta are the small gaggle of ultra-Orthodox Jews who regularly appear at anti-Israel rallies supporting the anti-Israel movements. They believe it is blasphemous to establish a Jewish state until the coming of the Messiah. This used to be mainstream . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 01:46 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

I told you so

I know it's not very refined of me, but I told you so. I know I shouldn't gloat about bad news, but I told you so. And on a lighter note. . . . . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 01:45 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

Visual aids

We've had to suffer through really nasty political cartoons. Well, it's payback time. If these are any indication, loading up little kiddies with bombs was a baaaadddd PR move for the Pals. At least in the US. And Chris . . . more »

Judith | 04/04/04 at 12:28 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

April 02, 2004

Reform

A summit on "Arab Reform Issues" was held in Alexandria last month. Here are their resolutions on reform. This is one of the most hopeful documents I've seen in ages. (via Islamicate. And while I'm on the subject of . . . more »

William | 04/02/04 at 03:32 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Comparative Religion

Dhimmi spoken here

The EU, unable to continue hiding the antisemitism report it commissioned last year, tries to whitewash the findings instead. . . . more »

Judith | 04/02/04 at 02:43 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

The Jewish way in marriage

Why the Orthodox should not control Israel: . . . more »

William | 04/02/04 at 08:58 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Eretz Yisrael

April 01, 2004

Fallujah: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Fallujah: The good, the bad, and the ugly. History often provides useful perspectives. Here's one:We're dealing with a bunch of angry people without jobs, with a lot of time on their hands, who correctly perceive that they will never again . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 09:35 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Iraq

Winning hearts and minds

This is big. This is huge. One of the most articulate spokesmen of the libertarian antiwar blogosphere changed his mind. Madrid and Fallujah changed his mind. It's horrible that it takes grotesque massacres to get some people to see . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 09:15 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: WWIV

Mmm. Matzah

I just went to my first community matzah bake at my shul. Making matzah is easy and fun. (We decided ours was made under "casual rabbinic supervision," since our rabbi was our enthusiastic matzah-baking instructor.) Some web-searching has revealed . . . more »

Rachel | 04/01/04 at 08:52 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim

Anyone but Bush

If we're going to have a regular anyone-but-Kerry thread, I may feel obliged to counter with periodic anyone-but-Bush posts. Want to know why I don't like Dubya? Take a look at this resume. (Sure, it's satire, but it's funny. . . . more »

Rachel | 04/01/04 at 05:03 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Multiculturalism in action

I posted this Instapundit link to a large email list I am on where politics tend to run liberal-left when they come up, but it's not a political list per se. My subject line was "liberal talk radio displaces . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 03:31 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

The Google War again

I wrote about the Google war for the word "Jew" last week. Now the JPost has picked up the story. The war is not yet won, so . . . . Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 12:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Competing narratives

Fence Hypocrisy Dept.

Via LGF: Say No To Washington's Apartheid Fence!!!!!!! . . . more »

Judith | 04/01/04 at 12:44 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

Hannukah: "like a Western!"

Mel Gibson, already getting lashed by many Jews for his film "The Passion of the Christ," recently talked about tackling a more distinctly Jewish film--one about the festival of Hanukkah. "The Maccabees' family stood up and made war," said Gibson, . . . more »

William | 04/01/04 at 08:29 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Chagim