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I Went to Egypt to Study Arabic, And All I Got Was This T-Shirt?
February 24, 2011Imagine it. You decide to head to Cairo for a semester or year to study Arabic and other subjects, only to be caught up in a small revolution and the cancellation of classes. It can be an exciting time. It can be a frightening experience, too. Imagine meeting on the Nile island of Zamalek, and [...]
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MAMA DIASPORA vs YURIY GURZHY – LIVE CONCERT in KIEV – Tonight!
February 19, 2011I know this comes at short notice, but still… Mama Diaspora vs Yuriy Gurzhy will be in concert at XLIB Club in Kiev tonight. The Drunk DJs Party starts at 11pm so you’ve got enough time to finish off your pelmini first. For those of us that can’t be CIS-hopping tonight, here’s a consolation treat [...]
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Khomeini Believes That Iran Should Become a Parliamentary Democracy
February 15, 2011Via Cliff May, this gem of analysis from Time Magazine in 1979. I only post this to make the point that we don’t really know much about what will happen in the future, because it hasn’t happened yet. This is Time discussing Ayatollah Khomeini’s plans, shortly after he arrived back in Iran:Those who know the [...]
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A post-smicha Torah poem: Coming Back Down
January 17, 2011COMING BACK DOWN After Sinai’s synaesthesia (power surge, transmission) our ancestors blinked and backed away already forgetting how to read the Name in each others’ faces the wilderness dwarfed them they wandered off in ones and twos the way we drift through airports stunned to be among strangers who don’t feel God’s absence new [...]
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Perry’s Law
December 27, 2010When I started writing these columns many years ago, I often identified little things I called ‘
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Perception and Statehood
December 15, 2010The blues are catchy, I know. Usually, make me wanna take out my harmonica and blow along with the poetry of oppression. Usually, but not today. Not here. Not in the Middle East, where hope is still alive. Excuse me for being a party-pooper, but isn’t it time Palestinians quit singing sorrow-songs and instead celebrate [...]
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An Even Better, Though More Fatalistic, TSA Idea Than Kilts!
November 16, 2010I’m writing this at Reagan National, where a very nice woman from the TSA just complimented me on my shirt-and-tie combination (I’d take a picture of it, but I don’t know how, but you can see it tonight on the Colbert Report, on which I will make a brief appearance in order to discuss the [...]
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Winning at the Race of Life
November 8, 2010Now that elections are over many people are going to jump straight into analyzing the races, who did what right/wrong and what we can expect from this new House and Senate. There will be plenty of time for that in the next weeks and months, but I want to take a quick time-out to [...]
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HOW OBAMA WEAKENED US POWER
October 29, 2010The leftist punditry that played such a key role in convincing the American people that it was safe to hire an inexperienced community organizer as the chief executive of the world’s premier power is at it again. This time it seeks to convince the American people that their perception is wrong. Barack Hussein Obama has [...]
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Two Cases of King Lear
October 1, 2010According to the Palestinian Authority, the main obstruction to building a real Arab state, I mean one with large outdoor festivals, power-house industries, world-class universities and hotdog stands are the Jewish Settlements. The PA is serious this time: jettison the moratorium ‘
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Amazon Jews get special Yom Kippur prayer book
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BRINGING THE JEWISH CARUSO BACK TO LIFE
August 17, 2010Yossele Rosenblatt died in 1933, one of the most celebrated cantors of his time, a time before clear recordings and digitized music. Mr. Rosenblatt earned his name, the Jewish Caruso with his impressive two and a half octave vocal range. This beautiful music would be lost to the world if not for Mendel Werdyger, the [...]
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New moon
August 11, 2010It’s new moon — Rosh Chodesh — and this month, that means that a time of contemplation and prayer has begun in both the Jewish and Muslim traditions. This new month is both Elul and Ramadan. (The Jewish calendar is metonic, and the Muslim calendar is not, so our holy months don’t always overlap; this [...]