Cruller hu akbar!
The rightwingosphere piled on Rachel Ray this week for sporting a keffiyeh (well, actually a paisley scarf that only kinda looks like a keffiyeh) in a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial, accusing the homemaking TV star and her glazed with sprinkles benefactors of shilling for terrorists.
Little Green Football’s Charles Johnson, who led the [...]
Guest post by Sholom Keller
If there’s anything I have figured out during the past several years, it’s that the troops are the only ones who can end the war. We cannot rely on our elected officials, for whom political aspirations take a higher priority than defense of the Constitution. We cannot rely on the media [...]
Pops is now out of the hospital, in physical therapy, walking around, and faring much better, blood and all. He’s not 100% yet, but it looks like we’re out of the doghouse. Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support.
Big-ups to Micha Ghertner for picking up on this one.
Don’t miss the comment thread.
this neocon yutz has a collection of tzipi livni photos mixed among, um, artful nudes in his wank slideshow on flickr.
be sure to flip around and check out his profile. it features such choice cuts as “My political hero is Independent [de-selected veteran Democrat] Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.”
if i laugh any harder i’m gonna pass [...]
My friend, Dr. Uri Gordon, and I started writing a lengthy rebuttal to Yehezkiel Dror’s anger-inducing op-ed in The Forward calling for the shuttling of morality out the window in the face of threats real and imagined against the Jewish people. And perhaps we will finish it soon. In the meantime, Eli Valley [...]
I joked for days about what I’d do, given the opportunity. I joked seriously, half-seriously, “I’d be willing to martyr myself for this cause.” I’d throw tomatoes, a pie, drop a banner, talk trash to his face, strangle him with my bare hands. Something, anything.
I considered the pie my best [...]
You can view more photos from this panel, as well as from the rest of the President’s Conference, here.
I just sat through an hour and a half of infuriating dialogue on Jewish identity that has only further concretized my belief that Jewish leadership is completely out of touch with the greater Jewish public.
Jews and Judaism [...]
I’m heading back to Israel motzei shabbat, for the first time since I left exactly one year ago. I am in flux between endemic nervousness and dizzying exhilaration.
On the one hand there’s Uganda! Noc! Sira! Alex! Davide! Uri! Amy! Harry! Barya! The Rebbe! Minyan Shelanu! Humus and falafel that [...]
Dear Israel,
Congratulations on the 60th anniversary of your great disaster.
Allah hu akbar,
Mobius
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Perhaps the most provocative and challenging conversation at the Righteous Indignation conference was the Israel panel discussion which took place last night. The participants included Dr. Dianne Balser, Joseph Gindi, Dr. Leonard Fein, Rabbi Melissa Weintraub and Rabbi Brian Walt.
Listen in:
