So not only have I cross-linked to one brother’s blog, but I have installed a feature on this here blogging platform so that the other bro, who only communicates through his thumbs via Crackberry, can now read it without all the troublesome images. You know I love you guys, I would only do this for [...]
Archive for June, 2008
I am no one without my causes
I may be a nice guy, a smart guy or a reasonably fun guy. But I am no one without my causes. It’s clear from the moment I found my first cause — likely the defense of Judaism on the playgrounds of Nebraska and Texas — that I approach wholeness only through my passions. Knowledge of an [...]
Jun 26th, 2008 Musings 0 Comments
On Annihilation
Maybe Jews are supposed to die off. Hasn’t anyone thought about that? All this yapping over Jewish continuity begs a few assumptions. What is this obsession with quantity over quality? Ten million Jews is better than how many upstanding Jews? Nine million? One million? A thousand? One hundred? Fifty? A minyan? What’s the exchange rate [...]
Jun 17th, 2008 Judaism and Musings 4 Comments
Zionism *is* racism…and that’s “just fine”?
Over at Jewschool, we get into heated battles over Israel, Arabs, the Israeli Arab minority, etc. We get visits from plenty of right-wingers and independent thinkers who say some pretty outrageous things. But one our more conservative fans (readers?) just dropped the Z-bomb as the r-bomb: That part of the Declaration of Independence [guaranteeing equal [...]
Jun 17th, 2008 Israel and On the Web 8 Comments
Hadag Nachash’s rewrite of Uzi Hitman’s children’s song “Elohim Sheli”
Uzi Hitman’s 80′s children’s song about an angel promising peace to the children of the world is masterfully rewritten by Hadag Nachash and translated in this YouTube video. Original song here.
Jun 16th, 2008 Israel and War 0 Comments
How radical do I want to be?
I don’t believe in nationalism. I don’t believe in the abrogation of the Diaspora. I don’t believe it’s a great idea to put all the world’s Jews in one, small easily-annihilated country. I don’t believe a “Jewish people” exists in any way definable for the purposes of determining citizenship, only Jewish peoples. I don’t believe [...]
Jun 15th, 2008 Israel and Musings 1 Comment
What’s missing from the US’ “pro-Israel” support
What the US did right in Ireland which it’s not doing in Israel, from Common Ground News, by Marc Gopin: Senator Mitchell once told me in person exactly how he managed to successfully outmaneuver the spoilers in the Irish/Protestant conflict. He explained to me: I had a pad of paper with my handwritten notes. I [...]
Jun 13th, 2008 Israel and Politics 0 Comments
Rachel Ray ain’t got nothing on the Israelis
Mobius is giving the blogosphere a reaming in the motherboard over the rightwingosphere’s dive tackling keffiyah-sporting Rachel Ray in the knees. Far be it from me to comment too much further than the grand-daddy of the topic has already done. But since Mobes made me more aware of the keffiyah trend, I really did a [...]
Jun 11th, 2008 Humor, Israel and X-posted to Jewschool 3 Comments