Category Archives: Jews

Israeli Jew wins a Nobel, world boycott movement in shock

Go ahead, world. Boycott Israeli academic institutions. It totally makes sense, because it’s not like Israeli students will grow up to do Nobel-prize winning work or anything like that. Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, 70, was awarded the Nobel Prize for … Continue reading

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Best of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere #237

Every week we run a blog carnival called Haveil Havalim. It is a collection of the Best Posts of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. I am pleased to let you know that the 237th edition of the carnival is now live. As … Continue reading

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Rosh Hashanahs past

The New York Times has a couple articles about past celebrations of Rosh Hashanah. In one article the Times tells about how Barbara Ann Paster relives what it was like to observe Rosh Hashanah in 1919 in Portsmouth New Hamphsire. … Continue reading

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Monday morning snark news

Despicable, if true: Settlers burn Palestinian fields as a consequence of having illegal outposts removed. I have no snark for this, only contempt. Labor to Israel: Netanyahu and Obama have their wires crossed, which is detrimental to U.S.-Israel relations. Meryl … Continue reading

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Obama ups the ante on “settlements”

The Obama administration shows its hand by demanding that Israel stop building in eastern Jerusalem. No word yet if anyone ever objected to Jordan’s near destruction of the city’s ancient Jewish Quarter (including synagogues and Torahs) which was—wait for it—in … Continue reading

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Wily Jews may have found a cure for radiation poisoning

Wow, won’t this suck for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: If this is true, he can’t destroy Israel, after all. Medication that can protect humans against nuclear radiation has been developed by Jewish-American scientists in cooperation with a researcher and investors from Israel. … Continue reading

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A masterful assuaging

Last year those of us Jews who didn’t support President Obama in his bid to be elected president were subjected to ridicule. If we didn’t support him it was because we were prejudiced or misinformed. This mocking didn’t just come … Continue reading

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Pat Buchanan’s buddy charged with Nazi war crimes

Expect more outraged columns by the modern-day Lindbergh on how innocent this poor old man is. And yet, he’s being charged. German prosecutors on Monday charged suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk with helping to kill about 28,000 Jews … Continue reading

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Dershowitz doubles down

Alan Dershowitz defends his (flawed) defense of the Obama administration’s stance on the Israel. This is precisely the situation American supporters of Israel want to avoid. We do not want to replicate the horrible situation that currently exists in Phillips’ … Continue reading

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A Hebrew robocall?

Someone in the marketing department in some company that has my phone number really screwed up. Because I got a robocall in Hebrew late this afternoon. It was the greeting that tipped me off that something was, er, not kosher. … Continue reading

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Dhimmitude on display

Iranian Jews are the finest example of how Jews were treated in Muslim nations during the good old days of the Caliphate. Witness: Besides their support, Mutai stressed that “ever since the revolution, the Jewish community has tried very hard … Continue reading

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The studiously avoided refugees

In his speech in Cairo last week President Obama referred to himself as a “student of history.” A number of writers have pointed out that there’s a dimension of the Middle East’s history that the President failed to mention. A … Continue reading

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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival #217

If you want to get a sense of what sorts of issues, thoughts and ideas are buzzing through the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere you need to go check out our blog carnival. It is called Haveil Havalim and is one of the … Continue reading

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Hugo the horrible

On May 1, Melanie Kirkpatrick wrote about the deteriorating condition of the Jews in Venezuela. In 1998, the year Hugo Chavez was elected president, there were 22,000 Jews in Venezuela. Today the Jewish population is estimated at between 10,000 and … Continue reading

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Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival Time

The 213th edition of Haveil Havalim, the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere’s weekly blog carnival is up at The Real Shaliach.

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