The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Jews
Haveil Havalim #142 is UP!
Haveil Havalim #142 is UP! Remembering a friend who died too soon. The latest in Israeli medical breakthroughs. The rain in Spain Israel. An Al Dura roundup. An Annapolis roundup. And much, much, more… Personal Israel Humor Al Dura Annapolis … Continue reading
My bat mitzvah speech
Note: It’s not the d’var Torah. I didn’t get a chance to do that one. I’d like to write it up and post it at a later date, because I have a lot to say about Chayyei Sarah. This is … Continue reading
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Three more Jewish Nobel winners: Thanks, America
Yesterday, I wondered how many of the three winners of the Nobel prize in economics were Jewish. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science to Leonid Hurwicz, 90 years old, a retired professor … Continue reading
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Americans and the Nobel prize
Three Americans will share the Nobel prize for economics. Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for work that “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.” The three researchers … Continue reading
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The British and the Wall
Yisrael Medad points out that the PalArabs are claiming ownership of the Western Wall and notes the claimed basis for this in international law, from a British commission in 1930 that was established in wake of the 1929 Muslim pogroms … Continue reading
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Faces of evil
Dara Mandle in Contentions Today, the New York Times makes available photographs obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the other side of Auschwitz: not the familiar images of starving prisoners, but new shots of vivacious German officers. … Continue reading
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Israel’s problems are solved
That’s what I thought when I read the headline “Madonna: I’m an ‘ambassador for Judaism’“. Who better to represent the Jewish state than a Catholic born superstar from the 80’s who parades around the stage in her underwear? (via memeorandum) … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Jews, Pop Culture
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Haveil Havalim #134 is UP!
Shameless self promoter that I am, I’m taking advantage of Meryl’s kindness to announce that Haveil Havalim #134 is UP at my place, Soccer Dad. This week’s edition features posts discussing Israel’s ongoing two front war, Walt and Mearsheimer, the … Continue reading
Shana Tovah
This is the time of year when I wish a sweet and happy and healthy new year to all of my Jewish friends and family. May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for nothing but good things this … Continue reading
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Once a year Jews
Worth reprinting in full. Question: I am a once a year Jew. I go to shul for the High Holydays, having not shown my face the entire year, and then disappear till next High Holydays. Do people like you think … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim is up
It’s over at Life in Israel. Go look.
Haveil Havalim
Our weekly Carnival of the Jews is up, over at Soccer Dad’s.
Haveil Havalim is up
The latest edition of Haveil Havalim is up. Say, that sounds like something I just wrote. Like, in the title to this post. Well, it’s at Soccer Dad’s, who could also be known as Carnival Dad.
Haveil Havalim: Carnival of the Jews
This week’s Haveil Havalim is up. Go, read, enjoy. Well? What are you still doing here? Click! Click!
The Mighty Heart controversy
For me it started with the article by Debbie Schlussel in the FrontPage magazine. Let’s not mince the words – the article is a hatchet job, and a very thorough one to boot. Debbie has definitely gone overboard, trying to … Continue reading
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