The mother of my friend Rabbi Moishe Geller, a well-known staple of the Nachlaot and Rainbow Family communities, is currently in the hospital in rather rough shape. Please, if you can, daven for her well-being. Her name is Hanya Leah bas Gittel. Thanks.
[Update] A revised edition of this post appeared in Jewsweek magazine, under the title The Barren Bling Finger of God.”
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“The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.” — Terence McKenna
I ain’t gonna lie. I smoke weed. Sometimes a lot more often than not.
I’m not ashamed of this fact. At [...]
I’m fine. I wasn’t in Tel Aviv. I was in Jerusalem. Keeping Shabbos. Which is my new thing. Actually being entirely shomer Shabbos. And I’ll get into why in my next post. And I’ll post about the rest of my West Bank adventures this week as well. [...]
For some reason, this article didn’t make it to The Jerusalem Post’s website, though it did appear in the print edition of the paper. This is my comeback to Janine’s remark in the comments on my recent house demolitions post in which she argued that there’s no Israeli left and that Israelis unilaterally support [...]
Haaretz launched a new “Underground” section of their website. Check out their Useful Links page! Dope!
Last night’s cipher was absolutely insane. First, Eyesis lent me her decks. The label on the back says it supports 110v & 220v configurations. So I plugged it into the 220v jacks and pop! [...]
If you’re a fan of the Mobius Mixdown, please shoot an e-mail to All For Peace and let ‘em know! Spanks!
My latest project’s finally launched — a collaboration with Harry, featuring the best and brightest English-language Israeli bloggers, which looks at life in Israel beyond hamatzav. Peep the purdiest blog I’ve designed yet (and my first Wordpress blog to boot): Israelity.
I started blogging in 1998, before the word blog existed — before even blogging tools like Blogger and Moveable Type existed. I would hand-code pages with random links and journal updates and the like… And then one day my friend Sarah introduced me to Blogger. And that’s when everything changed. I [...]
So the IDF was issued an order to stop bulldozing the homes of Palestinian terrorists. But this morning in East Jerusalem, the IDF is demolishing Palestinian houses. Why?
It is a common misconception that Israel only demolishes the homes of terrorists. The vast majority of homes demolished by the Israeli government [...]
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Ween, “Voodoo Lady”
Peaches, “Suck and Let Go”
Kimya Dawson, “5 Years”
Funki Porcini, “16 Megatons”
Tom Waits, “Step Right Up”
Charles Mingus, “Boogie Stop Shuffle”
Ladytron, “Seventeen”
Medeski Martin & Wood, “Anonymous Skulls”
Tortoise, “Salt The Skies”
Nitin Singh, “Indian Secret”
Sam Prekop, “The Company”
Dufus, “Wrinkle”
Stereolab, “The Man With 100 Cells”
Amon Tobin & Kid Koala, “Untitled”
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“Queer anarchist protest graffiti in Jerusalem”
Graciously translated from the original Hebrew by Yossi Bartal
Activists sprayed on the municipality building walls slogans against homophobia “in protest against the wild incitement against the LGBT community” and say it is only the beginning.
Is the LGBT community struggle becoming more aggressive? A group of activists, allegedly from the queer [...]
