Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: October 2008
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31 October 2008
Jerusalem Elections 2008: The Most Crucial in Years
Several weeks ago I gave an Israeli take on the upcoming U.S. elections. But there’s another vote in November that may prove to be just as momentous for this country. I’m talking about the Jerusalem mayoral elections.
Five years ago, the status quo was broken when the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community fielded a candidate for mayor for [...]
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28 October 2008
Art Show at the Museum of the Underground Prisoners
Just when you think you’ve seen all that Jerusalem has to offer, along comes a surprise in the most unusual of spaces.
For weeks, the Jerusalem municipality has been running full-page ads promoting Art Jerusalem 08, an exhibition with hundreds of mostly new and unknown artists. The setting was the Underground Prisoner’s Museum, just off Kikar [...]
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27 October 2008
Campaign to Get LA Times to Release Obama-Khalidi Tape
It’s no secret that certain media outlets and pundits have displayed particular political biases this election season. But as Election Day draws near, some conservative bloggers are amassing support for journalistic transparency with what could be a game-changing story.
The LA Times’s Peter Wallsten reported (based in part on information gleaned from Debbie Schlussel) in April, [...]
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26 October 2008
Art of the Week - Candlelighting
Mother and Daughter
“They light the candles and focus together
One guides one learns
Two burn”
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24 October 2008
A new reason for travel
I remember in either Time Magazine or Newsweek a couple of years ago, they ran a feature about people traveling to India to receive medical care at a fraction of the cost of the United States. The doctors are for the most part trained in US hospitals, but since insurance is not the rabid [...]
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24 October 2008
“Hit a Jew Day”
Some 6th graders near St. Louis are in trouble after taking Spirit Week too far. What started as “Hug a Friend Day” quickly evolved and became “Hit a Jew Day.” According to school officials, 10 of the school’s 35 Jews were somehow hit. A link may be found here.
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23 October 2008
Time for Some Tough Love
Ok, as of recently I have been receiving complaints from people who have criticized Jewneric as being a shill for the Obama campaign. And so it is with that criticism in mind that I write this.
I dislike Barak Obama. I do. I feel that he lacks the experience necessary to bring this country out of [...]
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19 October 2008
Not Your Average Jewneric Succah Hop
As the final days of Succot (The Jewish Holiday of huts) rapidly approach I came to thinking about the different Succahs I have eaten in this year. Some were made of wood, or plastic, or PVC piping, or fiberglass, or popped up. Some had bamboo rods, or mats, or leaves and cut shrubbery. [...]
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17 October 2008
Another Israeli Take on the Upcoming U.S. Elections
I just received my absentee ballot for the upcoming U.S. elections in the mail and I’m psyched. Yes, I know that some critics will question whether an American living outside the country has the moral right to vote for a president of a country in which he is no longer living. But I plan on [...]
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13 October 2008
The issues
In the upcoming election, we have two very qualified choices for President. John McCain has been a government servant for 26 years, and nobody can deny his heroism in Vietnam. Barack Obama is an inspiring speaker and has many people believing that government can do good for the people of this country and [...]
