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Plausible Political Victory for a Dutch Jew

15-Mar-10

Mazel Tov to Job Cohen, the Mayor of Amsterdam. He is the likely candidate to be the Dutch prime minister in their upcoming elections. Mr. Cohen announced that he will be running for the office of Labor Party chairman after its current leader, Wouter Bos, announced that he would resign his post.
News agencies in Holland [...]

Restoring Egypt’s Synagogues

10-Mar-10

Just in time for the festival of Pesach, Egypt’s culture minister says that it will shoulder the costs of restoring the country’s synagogue’s.
Farouk Hosny says that his ministry views Jewish sites as much a part of Egypt’s culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches and the restorations would not require any foreign funding. This marks [...]

The Test

09-Mar-10

Palestinian construction workers should be finding new work soon, as Bibi has authorized the construction of new apartments in the West Bank.
Is it:
a) To put Palestinian construction workers back to work
b) To house more Jews in Samaria…resuscitating the injured Zionist dream
c) To tell the Obama administration that Israel is NOT a territory of [...]

Mr. Campbell

08-Mar-10

Republican US Senate candidate, former congressman, Tom Campbell, running in the state of California was accused by his opponents of anti-Semitism and taking an anti-Israel stance. He denies these accusations.
His opponents, Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore have claimed that Campbell opposes Israel because of the way he has voted while in office and because of [...]

Israeli Women Continue To Make Less Than Men

07-Mar-10

The average woman in Israel lives to age 83, gives birth to three children, and makes a third less than the average man, according to recent data published by the Central Statistics Bureau in honor of International Women’s Day – celebrated on May 8.
The bureau did find that in the past year, women have [...]

The Wicked Witch of Caesaria

19-Jan-10

A former housekeeper has filed a lawsuit accusing the Israeli prime minister’s wife of abusing her.
Lillian Peretz, who worked as the Netanyahu’s housekeeper at their beachside home in the town of Caesaria for six years, claims that Sara Netanyahu verbally abused her and forced her to change clothes and shower several times a day to [...]

Did Barack Grow A Pair? Did He Always Have Them? Will He Understand Us?

10-Dec-09

U.S. President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday and gave an unpredictable speech. Acknowledging the choice of giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a war time president – Obama gave a speech underlining the theme of necessary war.

“Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding [...]

Arnold Does Jerusalem

15-Nov-09

It ain’t Clinton, Mr. or Mrs.
It ain’t Tony Blair, Mother Teresa or Kofi Annan.
So who could it be coming to our Holiest City, searching for bits and pieces of peace…that is if the Messiah does not make a cameo?
Why it’s the Terminator! And he’s coming to pump J-town up!
That’s right. Cali Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger is [...]

Bring Shalit Home Finally, Urges Bereaved IDF Moms

13-Nov-09

A group of bereaved mothers, including Miki Goldwasser, Rona Ramon and Esther Wachsman, sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu this week, requesting to meet with him urgently to advance the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
They wrote that they are a group that “knows a thing or two about losing loved [...]

Spy vs Spy

09-Nov-09

Earlier last week, Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union who had served prison time for spying for the KGB was shot to death while driving in a Mercedes in downtown Moscow.
The car that he was riding in was attacked by a passing vehicle, carrying men with semi-automatic weapons. Kalmanovitch’s driver, [...]

Remembering Yitzhak Rabin

28-Oct-09

Thursday marked the 14 year anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Today in the Jerusalem Post was a story about a group of famous Israeli politicians who were strongly opposed to Rabin’s left wing politics; such as, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzahi Hanegbi and certainly Bibi Netanyahu.
The JPost article said:

Army Radio, meanwhile, revealed [...]

A Sad Farewell to an Israeli Sports Icon

25-Oct-09

The ex-manager and vice chairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, Moni Fanan was found hanging in his North Tel Aviv apartment Tuesday, in an obvious suicide.
Those who knew Fanan were aware that he had accumulated upwards of $20 million in debt, as an unfortunate result of his investing large sums of money in [...]

Haredi Rabbi Elyashiv: Please Don’t Anger the Gentiles!

10-Oct-09

Here are some of the edicts that Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who will turn 100 this coming April, has made lately. The internet is forbidden, Shabbat elevators are forbidden, women must acquiesce to every form of extortion from husbands they want to receive a bill of divorce from in order to be free to remarry, [...]

Israel Gets another Nobel Prize

07-Oct-09

We’re still on the ball, guys! Israeli scientist Ada Yonath has won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She works at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, named after Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann, who also happened to be a chemist.
She shared the prize together with two American Scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz. Her work [...]

Israeli Researcher Close to Alzheimer’s Vaccine

03-Oct-09

This man, Dr. Alon Monsonego of Ben Gurion University, could be the face put on a real, workable Alzheimer’s vaccine. Alzheimer’s being one of the scariest, most devastating mental diseases imaginable where you pretty much die before you die since your mind is practically erased, this is very encouraging news. That, and cases have increased [...]