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Sec. Clinton Makes Plea For Wrongfully Imprisoned Jew
July 15, 2010Gilad Shalit? No. Jonathan Pollard? Nope. Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Nyet. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Joshua Fattal? nada. Give up? It’s Alan Gross. Alan is wrongfully imprisoned (undoubtedly along with hundreds of others) in Cuba for handing out cell phones. But one could but find Sec. Clinton’s comments strange considering that the US Jewish community has [...]
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“The internet mostly is a self-congratulatory conglomerate of mixed circle jerks.”
July 15, 2010I wish Ethan Zuckerman had put it that way, but he didn’t. Curiously enough, on the very day our dear CK is talking about social media (Did you put on a collared shirt, sweetie?), I came across an interesting article on the BBC website about a talk Ethan Zuckerman gave in Oxford. Zuckerman explains that [...]
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Sure, let’s let Israel’s opponents win by providing them with a divide and conquer opening
July 13, 2010It was announced a couple of days ago that a new Israel advocacy group has emerged, the Emergency Committee for Israel’
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So, this whole spy thing and its connection to Russian Jews
July 13, 2010I know, as the token Russian, you’re expecting me to comment on it, right? Well, I was recently reading this book about Soviet spy Dmitri Bystrolyotov (you can check my review here). The book is about how Bystrolyotov grows up during the Russian Revolution and, through a turn of fate, begins spying for the Soviet [...]
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Women of the Wall and the Israeli Police: Everybody Loses.
July 13, 2010I’d be misleading you if I didn’t put it out there immediately — I can’t stand the Women of the Wall, including the queen bee herself, Anat Hoffman, who was recently arrested at the Kotel for opening a sefer Torah in the women’s section, which she and her cronies smuggle in each Rosh Chodesh in [...]
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Qu bonito Israel!
July 13, 2010Uhm… Yes, this pro-Israel video came out in April. Yes, it’s already racked up millions of views. Why are we only putting it up now? Because it’s in Spanish and thus did not come across our radar until recently. ‘
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Obama & Netanyahu, Servicing Jewish Service, and President of the Conference of Presidents
July 12, 2010Click here to watch in High Definition (HD)
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A Barn Burns In Poland
July 12, 2010Remembering the murder of the Jews of Jedwabe in 1941. Polish performance artist Raphael burned a barn on Sunday, July 10th, the 69th anniversary of the burning alive of the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941 by their neighbors. In the video below Raphael explains why he is burning the barn. More than 1000 people witnessed [...]
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Join The Harmony Campaign!
July 11, 2010Hello good people! Shemspeed is looking for short or long term marketing people to join a historic PR campaign for racial Harmony which will include NYS Senator, Brooklyn Borough President and Marley Coffee run by the legendary Marley family. Be in touch ASAP as we blast off this next week. Join the team, the experience [...]
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Dichotomy
July 10, 2010H/T Blazing Cat Fur discussing the recent news about the stoning sentence of the alleged adulteress in Iran.
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NY Times, Shemspeed, Palestinian Hip Hop & the keffiyeh
July 9, 2010Today the NY Times wrote about the new movement of Semitic rappers, our brothers, sisters and cousins who rap in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Through Shemspeed’s Hip Hop Sulha , artists such as Y-Love & Diwon have played with many Palestinian groups such as Saz and Dam who are listed below. The Hip Hop Sulha [...]
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News Tidbits for a July Heatwave
July 9, 2010While the Northeast USA broiled, news was being made. At the Atlantic Monthly, Jeffrey Goldberg wondered whether he or we should pray for his cancer stricken colleague, Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens is a pugnacious Athiest who lectures on why the belief in a God or gods is harmful. Goldberg reached out to Rabbi David Wolpe of [...]
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Saving Park Adullam
July 9, 2010What happened to Israel Leading the world in alternative energy? Bicyclists and hikers love to travel through Adullam National Park near Beit Shemesh, where David hid in the Cave of Adullam. But that scenery may be forever changed by oil-shale extraction. In December 2009, Israel Energy Initiatives Ltd (IEI ) – a subsidiary of the [...]
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Gilad Shalit march
July 8, 2010The very end of the march, in Jerusalem on Bezalel, across from Gan Sacher. About 15 minutes before Prime Minister Netanyahu’s house. You can also view these photos here, on my site.