Posts Tagged: israel
Sacha Baron Cohen Character General Aladeen Spits upon Discovering that Larry King Is Jewish (VIDEO)
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character to hit the widescreen is a fanatic antisemitic Arab dictator named General Admiral Aladeen loosely based on former Libyan strongman...
Jewish Holiday Improvising in Nicaragua
Leaving the comforts and luxuries of home to spend a week in Nicaragua for Spring Break with the American Jewish World Service is an experience...
The Biggest Internal Jewish Threat: Lack of Respectful Dialogue
The Talmud says that the plague that decimated Rabbi Akiva's academy nearly two thousand years ago was because they did not treat each other...
Psychic Faith Healers Belie Jewish Tradition
The practice of "faith healing" carries obvious dangers, such as discouraging those who need conventional medical help from seeking it. When the "healer"...
Jewish Glove-maker Repairs Queen’s Gloves
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is known for her particular choices when it comes to picking royal clothiers and her selection of glove-maker is no different....
Israeli Foreign Ministry Official Has “No Expectations for Peace Process
Before a location is chosen, before pads and pens are in place, before a diplomatic hand ever reaches across a table, Aviva Raz...
Israel is Not Being Deligitimized
Recently, the Jerusalem based Jewish People's Policy Institute (JPPI) posted an article by Brig. Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog entitled Don't Underestimate The Deligitimization...
Israeli Athlete Adds Name to Olympic List in London
Misha Zilberman qualified for the London Olypmics as Israel's first representative in the Badminton event. Last month, standing 1,500 ranking points outside of the final qualifying...
The End of the Inspire Era
Al-Qaida has released two new issues of its English-language magazine eight months after a drone strike eliminated the American jihadi leaders behind it. The latest...
How to Think About Taxation and Spending (Part 3)
In the last blog post we looked at how government spending creates short term wealth for some at the expense of long term prosperity for...
Early Israeli Elections Are All About Iran
If there are to be no more surprises (and G-d knows Israeli politics are full of them), in the beginning of the next week Prime...
Darwin Akbar! “Darwin is God, and I – Dr. Jerry Coyne – Am His Prophet!” (Part 2)
Dr. Jerry Coyne, evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, is a deeply religious man. His religion is called Scientific Naturalism. The central dogma of...
Belgian Train Announcement: “Welcome to This Train for Auschwitz. All Jews Get Off at Buchenwald”
Passengers traveling from Brussels to Namur on Thursday via Belgium's national railway company SNCB were shocked when they heard the following over the train's loudspeaker:...
Israel #1 in Startups Per Capita, #3 Globally in Patents
In the six-plus decades of Israel's existence, the nation has proven to be a global pacesetter in innovation and the development technology start-ups....
