Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: February 2008
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14 February 2008
Oscar Award Winning Coen Brothers Pick Their Next Film
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 most likely to win them an Oscar for Best Picture. The departure from self-written black comedy has lead brothers Joel and Ethan to their greatest success since [...]
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14 February 2008
Spielberg’s Advisory Message to Beijing
The term “Never Again” is not just empty rhetoric for Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of “Schindler’s List” and “Munich”, withdrew as an artistic adviser to the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The withdrawal is in direct response to China’s financial support, weapons trade, and inaction with respect to its [...]
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14 February 2008
Tri-Colored Snoopy Takes Best of Show At Westminster
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 nights I sit fascinated in front of my television watching beautiful pure-bred dogs go round and round a ring, showing their style, demonstrating the diversity and [...]
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13 February 2008
Hezbollah Official Dies in Car Bombing
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 bombing late Tuesday in Syria. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack but Israel has stated that they had no involvement.
Hezbollah announced the death several hours [...]
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13 February 2008
Would you let someone shoot you with a puke ray?
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 reaction when she first heard about the less-lethal weapon’s existence was “A puke ray? An honest-to-God puke ray? Right here in Jerusalem?” I have to say that my [...]
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13 February 2008
What a Wonderful World It Could Be, or, My Way or the Highway
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, satire, movies, current events, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Despite our advancing age, the members of the Dead Air crew have consistently discussed and often predicted [...]
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12 February 2008
Israel vs. Google
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.
The following is the description at issue:
“This is one of the Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. For basic information about this locality, including [...]
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12 February 2008
New Jet Will Get You from New York to Tel Aviv in Under 3 Hours
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 be a possibility in the next fifteen years if the A2 Hypersonic Airliner takes flight according to plan.
Dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” the A2 will fly [...]
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11 February 2008
We Are Legion: An appeal from a Jewish Anonymous
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 countries, the rally was an astounding example of nonviolent protest and proved that a movement can be mobilized by a call to arms broadcast over YouTube.
In the [...]
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11 February 2008
Rep Tom Lantos Dies at age 80
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 to finish the remainder of his 14th term rather than step down from office. Lantos, a Democrat who served a northern California district, had recently assumed the [...]
