Like many other kids, one of my favorite childhood stories was Snow-White. Perhaps some of it was because my mom always liked to say that when she was pregnant with me she’d wished that she would have a daughter with lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony, like that famous pale [...]
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Are they for real? 4000 New Israeli Shekels for a full-time job? “What we’ve got here is — failure to communicate”!
It seems like employers here have lost their minds. Or perhaps they can afford themselves, to demand that their employees work full-time plus extra hours, without any social [...]
Rumor has it that Osama Bin Laden phoned the White House yesterday and was connected with President Bush.
“I had a dream last night,” said the terrorist. “I found myself flying over your miserable country and noticed that on every building was waving an enormous white banner with the same inscription.”
“And what did the banners say?” [...]
A small Internet game to help boost the holiday spirit and strengthen your Jewish identity.
On July 29, 2006 actor and director Mel Gibson was arrested in Los Angeles after been caught exceeding the speed limit. Police officers identified high levels of alcohol in his blood. The incident provoked many reactions as a result of anti-Semitic [...]
Is the cat out of the bag, or is this something most people really knew all along? Only days after U.S. President Bush met with Pakistan’s president (or is it Dictator) Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in New York during the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly, the release of the General’s book, In the Line [...]
Is it accepted to begin a job interview in the elevator? I wonder. “So I see here” (my Shrekky interviewer holds a crumpled copy of my precious CV in her hands) “that you worked in…” – elevator stops. I try to say something witty while following the hurrying lady to the interview room. She stops [...]
These are the (shocking!) facts: Three small kids were found dead this Saturday, after their pregnant mother had been savagely slain. Jimella Tunstall, mother of three and pregnant with another child, was 23 in her death.
The coroner believes her death was caused by excessive bleeding from her abdomen – after the fetus had been [...]
Are all Tel-Avivis terribly melancholic? After all, people do say they never smile on the streets… But perhaps there’s a different reason for the citizens of this lively city to walk with their heads down.
Walk down Rothschild Ave., and see the biggest number of dogs you’ll ever see anywhere else (unless you’re a dog [...]
Today’s the day. I’m wearing my best clothes, put on some make up, some perfume, and fixed my hair. I look good. I feel good. Confident, sharp, clever. Today they will adore me, listen to everything I have to say. They will hire me for the job.
Going to a job interview is almost like [...]
The grisly story that has shocked Americans the past few days is still something ranging from for completely unbelievable to a tale out of the worst nightmare of horror flicks. Occurring on or about September 15, in the predominantly African American community of East St. Louis Illinois, across the Mississippi River from its larger namesake, [...]
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