Monthly Archives: February 2008
Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film
Pin It Though the Coen brothers have made their careers by writing and directing movies, their recent film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is the work... Read More »
Spielberg’s Advisory Message to Beijing
Pin It The term “Never Again†is not just empty rhetoric for Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of “Schindler’s List†and “Munichâ€, withdrew as an artistic adviser to the... Read More »
Tri-Colored Snoopy Takes Best of Show At Westminster
Pin It As a lifelong dog lover I always look forward to the Super Bowl of Dogdom, the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York. For two... Read More »
Hezbollah Official Dies in Car Bombing
Pin It Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh, the man suspected of planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine Barracks in Lebanon in the early 1980’s, was killed by a car... Read More »
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
Pin It Sharon Weinberger has written an article for Wired’s Danger Room about her experience as the subject of a test involving a Sonic Blaster at a Jeruslaem hotel. Sharon’s... Read More »
What a Wonderful World It Could Be, or, My Way or the Highway
Pin It For several years, I have been involved in a radio show, going back to my days as YU radio station manager, called Dead Air. We discuss politics, religion,... Read More »
Israel vs. Google
Pin It The city of Kiryat Yam is suing Google for a description which was posted on Google Earth that portrays the history of the city in a negative light.... Read More »
New Jet Will Get You from New York to Tel Aviv in Under 3 Hours
Pin It Imagine flying to Israel and back in a day and still being able to get in a whole day’s worth of work, play and spiritual uplifting. That could... Read More »
We Are Legion: An appeal from a Jewish Anonymous
Pin It Yesterday (February 10th, 2008) marked the first protest against the Church Of Scientology by the cyber activist group Anonymous. Taking place at over 150 locations in 8 different... Read More »
Rep Tom Lantos Dies at age 80
Pin It Congressman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to be elected to Congress, died today at the age of 80. Lantos had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer but chose... Read More »
Suicide Attack in Dimona
Pin It Please be advised that the video below is graphic and violent in nature. Last week, the papers reported the first suicide bombing in Israel since January 2007. The... Read More »
Wig Store Banned: This is the stuff Horror movies are made from…
Pin It I was doing some “Jewish website web-surfing” and came across an article on Yeshiva World about a sheitle (wig) store being banned for putting up pictures of women.... Read More »
Israel’s Robots Part I: Suicide Bomber Inspection
Pin It In the past few days, Annalee Newitz, editor of IO9, has come under fire for the images that she posted of what appears to be a bomb disposal... Read More »
Deep Thinking: Where is G-D?
Pin It Do you ever wonder why we need a Synagogue or a Temple to serve G-d? I mean, He’s everywhere, why focus our service of Him on a building?... Read More »
Threat on Scientology
Pin It Scientology, or “the study of truth” (according to the Scientology website) is “the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others, and all of life.... Read More »
The Wisdom of the Ancient World Gets Some Good Press!
Pin It An article in Slate Magazine from April 10, 1998, by Steven E. Landsburg, discusses the way in which modern economic theory backs up the rabbis of the Babylonian... Read More »
Disengagement II?
Pin It According to unnamed sources, residents of the Israeli town Kochav Hashachar were delivered notices of eviction this afternoon by the government of Israel. Residents were told that if... Read More »
Hamas Attack Leaves Sedrot Without Electricity
Pin It Hamas terrorists fired a barrage of short-range Qassam rockets at the southern Israeli town of Sderot today. The attack resulted in the destruction of a high-tension power line,... Read More »
Keep Monopoly From Being Monopolized! …Or Something…
Pin It My own delightful alliteration notwithstanding, there seems to be a bit of democracy being introduced to the Monopoly process. Parker Brothers has announced that there will be a... Read More »
Clothes Make the Yid
Pin It Long ago, I came to accept that the style I dress in is considered un-orthodox. Not to say that I wear anything that’s provocative and my pants don’t... Read More »
