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November 29, 2004

Iraq snapshots

A moving tribute to our troops.

I saw Rabbi Irving Elson speak at JTS a few weeks ago. It was a small audience but a very respectful one. No moonbat comments. He spoke with great feeling for his soldiers in Iraq, and I could tell that they were blessed to have him as their chaplain.

Is it real or is it Memorex? Our troops in Fallujah had many sophisticated psyops methods to discombobulate the enemy, among them loudly playing the theme song from "Team America" from loudspeakers. Fuck, yeah.

Judith | 11/29/04 at 02:52 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: WWIV

November 28, 2004

Another bloggish kerfluffle about Jewish power, ho hum

I'm going to reproduce this entire post since Steven is going to close Protocols soon and I'm not sure he's going to leave the archives up. Steven emails Juan Cole, who claims that MEMRI operates with a budget of $60 million (as well as accusing them of being the latest incarnation of the Int'l Zionist Conspiracy):

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Judith | 11/28/04 at 09:10 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: - Useful idiots

Designy cool stuff

Elite Designers against IKEA. Und now it is time for Shprockets to dance.

Another NYC photoblog, for all your ironic urban landscape needs.

What's up these days with wearable computers.

From my most reliable source of cool stuff:
How to overclock your toothbrush.
Paper. Scissors. Escher.

Judith | 11/28/04 at 07:21 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Amazing things

November 26, 2004

More on antisemitism in ultra-violet America

I got an email (author wishes to remain anonymous) in reference to the Somerville divestment initiative:

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Judith | 11/26/04 at 03:50 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Divestment watch

Antisemitism watch

According to FBI statistics, anti-Jewish actions are the majority of religious hate crimes in the US.

The 166-page report documented more than 1,300 religion-based hate incidents in 2003. Jews were by far the most frequent targets of such attacks, with anti-Muslim incidents trailing far behind at 149. That was about the same number of anti-Islamic incidents as the previous year, though it was far fewer than the number of such crimes committed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

. . . Overall, the report found that hate crimes remained relatively steady between 2002 and 2003. The 7,489 total incidents last year were just 27 more than took place in 2002, the FBI said � and the 2002 figures were the lowest since 1994.

A Palestinian art exhibit stirs controversy, since much of the art is the same warmed-over blood libel and related propaganda.

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Judith | 11/26/04 at 03:16 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

November 24, 2004

Thanksgiving

For everyone surfing the net tomorrow:

Naomi Chana tries to balance kashrut and family Thanksgiving tradition. Fortunately she is not being advised by the Kosher Bachelor and his comment sections.

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Judith | 11/24/04 at 10:08 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea

Jews and the GOP

From The New Republic six weeks before the election. I think Bush's Jewish strategy played out as described here:

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Judith | 11/24/04 at 09:30 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 22, 2004

Should Bush have entrusted his security to a host country?

Two views of the Chilean incident.

UPDATE: I expected some spin to the effect that Bush's USSS guys insisting on protecting their president their own way is one more example of American heavy-handed insensitivity, and calling Bush's response "violent." I was not disappointed:

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Judith | 11/22/04 at 11:24 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Across the Pond

Fighting antisemitism in ultraviolet America

Leftist antisemitism in Europe may be growing without much public protest, but in the US we are doing a pretty good job of confronting it, even in the bluest of blue communities, now that more of us have woken up. (I remember reading an editorial in Moment in 2001, pleading for Jewish organizations and parents to recognize the antisemitism on college campuses and help the Jewish students take a stand.)

For example, a group tried to sneak a divestment resolution past the Board of Aldermen of Somerville, an extremely liberal suburb of Boston. But there are a fair number of Jews in Somerville, and even lefty Ivy League post-graduate Jews tend to balk at divesting from Israel.

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Judith | 11/22/04 at 07:55 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Divestment watch

Blog roundup

Spoons live-blogged from the National Review pundit cruise in the Carribean. Start here and click back.

Sharp as a Marble enriches the blogosphere with the new science of Indeedology:

. . . These phrases, called heh-metrics, can consist of anywhere between one and four words: Heh, Indeed, Update (also More Here:), and Read the Whole Thing. The study of hehmetrical impact on blog popularity is called Indeedeology. . . . In order to facilitate this study, I have created the Glenndex. The Glenndex monitors hehmetrics by sampling the number of Hehs, Indeeds, Updates, and Read the Whole Things listed on Instapundit. Because of the statistical nature of hehmetrics, there will be several Glenndexes needed to accurately portray hemetrical roles in hit counts.

Ann Althouse is gracious to some not very nice bloggers.

I've heard of corn snow, but this is ridiculous.

Judith | 11/22/04 at 08:45 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Around the blogosphere

November 21, 2004

More Jews and liberals for Bush

An Israeli tells it straight.

Another liberal mugged by 9-11, tells his story. Very similar to mine, except I was more exercised about the 2000 election than he was.

From Roger Simon's comments:

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Judith | 11/21/04 at 01:36 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 18, 2004

Deranged journalist Dept.

We knew Robert Fisk has lost it, several times. Each time we wonder how low he can go. Here is his latest example of descending into madness in a vain attempt to make the bad guys and good guys line up the way they are supposed to in Fiskworld (TM).

Fisk's latest propaganda tool.

It's an epidemic!

How low can Pat Oliphant go?
How low can Chris Matthews go?

Judith | 11/18/04 at 05:20 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - The Fourth Estate

PC run amok Dept.

Actually, this is an example of anti-PC run amok, which is the same thing.

The indignant author of this article apparently doesn't know that CE and BCE have been standard usage in historical and archeological circles for over a century. What's more, it has been routine usage in Jewish articles and history books for decades, including those by the Orthodox Jews who voted for Bush and support his domestic and foreign policy, and have no more use for political correctness than Mr. Duke.

This usage may be a revelation to Mr. Duke, but let him rest assured it is not some new PC academic fashion designed to appease Islamists. Maybe he should talk to some bibical archeologists or professors of ancient history before he gets so upset.

Judith | 11/18/04 at 03:08 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Competing narratives

Should I say or should I go now?

As violence against Jews increases in Europe, Alisa asks the question. My family faced this same question in the late 1930s: my father (and his family) in Berlin, my mother (and her mother) in Vienna, and in the early 1930s, my uncle's wife-to-be and her family. All of them made the correct choice, which is why I am here today. But it is a difficult complicated wrenching choice.

Judith | 11/18/04 at 02:15 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

November 14, 2004

Snapshots from the post-Arafat era.

Israel plans for the next phase.

Some advice for the Palestinians.

Three assessments of Arafat's legacy.

The Norwegian Turd is at it again.

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Judith | 11/14/04 at 01:59 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

November 12, 2004

The Arafat funeral circus

Lots of links from Tim Blair on Arafat's chaotic funeral, note especially the peculiar reminiscence by John Le Carre. (He used to be one of my favorite writers; I need to re-read some of his novels and see if . . . more »

Judith | 11/12/04 at 03:21 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

November 11, 2004

Ding dong Part II

(Part I here.) Yassir Arafat: 1929-2004, the bio. Jacques Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage. Kofi Annan is deeply moved. Guys, that kind of tactless simplistic talk will create enemies and alienate potential allies. You want to be . . . more »

Judith | 11/11/04 at 08:31 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

November 10, 2004

Conspiracy theory Dept.

Soneone with lots of money and familiarity with hedge funds seems to be manipulating oil futures. Someone with a similar profile manipulated the electronic markets predicting the election, the week before the election. Hmmm, I wonder who that could be . . . more »

Judith | 11/10/04 at 11:53 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Yet more morning after musings

The 7-11 coffee-cup poll:"Our popular vote was absolutely right on," Jim Keyes, the chain's head honcho, told the Dallas Morning News. "We sell a million cups of coffee every day, so our sample size was huge."I wonder why I never . . . more »

Judith | 11/10/04 at 11:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

No antisemitism here, move along, nothing to see Dept.

More on the violence against the College Republican Club by Palestinian students at the notorious San Francisco State U. Email to Andrew Sullivan:This evening in Oslo there was a march commemorating Kristallnacht. According to TV2 News, no Norwegian Jews . . . more »

Judith | 11/10/04 at 01:10 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Antisemitism watch

November 09, 2004

Politics and chili

It's been a very social week, what with all the election-related celebrating. Thursday evening, a party at the Metropolitan Republican Club. Sort of a reunion with some of my NJ phonebank people, plus new friends. This is the official . . . more »

Judith | 11/09/04 at 11:22 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Life and how to live it

Closet Bush voters in the world community

From the comment thread of a respectable reassessesment by John Perry Barlow: . . . more »

Judith | 11/09/04 at 10:40 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 07, 2004

More morning after musings

Maps showing the Democratic/Republican split by population rather than area. States and counties are resized to show population density, which makes the maps look weird, but give a vividly visual understanding of what the electorate did on Tuesday. A good . . . more »

Judith | 11/07/04 at 11:41 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 06, 2004

How not to win hearts and minds

Depressed New Yorkers muse on the bigoted dumbness of the heartland. Bewildered San Franciscans and Portlandians muse on the bigoted dumbness of the heartland. Some of them rouse themselves from their grief to protest against bigoted dumbness too. Some of . . . more »

Judith | 11/06/04 at 09:10 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 05, 2004

Shtibble Fo' Shizzle

In totally non-political news, Lazer Brody, everyone's favorite motorcycle riding Rabbi, has a new website. Check out the good vibrations at Reb Lazer's Shtibble. . . . more »

William | 11/05/04 at 03:51 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Doing Jewish

November 04, 2004

The morning after: The Jewish vote

Alison Kaplan-Sommer wrote a few months ago about her conflicted vote, as an American and an Israeli. She's still conflicted: . . . more »

Judith | 11/04/04 at 11:14 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Ding dong

Lots of news reports that Arafat is dead or close to it. Okay, Palestinians, your future belongs to you. No more patronage and intimidation from Arafat & Co., because his underlings will be fighting too much to keep the . . . more »

Judith | 11/04/04 at 03:34 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - Israel vs. the world

November 03, 2004

A lazy Wednesday evening election mop-up

Karol says:Young people don't vote. They have never voted. They will never vote. Even when you threaten them with death. Even when Eminem makes a 'cool' video about it. Even when they're lied to and told that they'll get . . . more »

Judith | 11/03/04 at 11:33 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

Antisemitism watch

Palestinian students attack Republican students, at - you guessed it - our old friend San Francisco State U. . . . more »

Judith | 11/03/04 at 06:55 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

The morning after

Relieved. Exhausted. Spent all afternoon and early evening in Hackensack NJ calling voters and watching nerve-wracking TV pundits, along with my friend of the Command Post essays and several other Bushie New Yorkers I had rounded up to help. . . . more »

Judith | 11/03/04 at 03:31 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 02, 2004

Greetings from the Antipodes!

GOOOOOOOOD Morning America!!!!!!!!!!!! Today you get to decide if you want to be like Spain or Australia. Try not to fuck it up please, it's not a trick question.Murray, every time a pollster says this election will be a squeaker, . . . more »

Judith | 11/02/04 at 04:05 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04

November 01, 2004

Correction

Hitchens actually is endorsing Bush.An email from Christopher Hitchens to my friend Ron Radosh indicates that Hitchens's comments on the election in Slate, which we posted here, were actually intended as an edorsement of Bush not Kerry as the editors . . . more »

Judith | 11/01/04 at 12:32 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: - GOTV '04