If you wantz to keepz a low profyle and still be bling blingin it up at shul…
Now you too can have clovfing made fo’ da Afrikan American Jew.
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Sharon speaks in support of Iraq invasion
“The move carried out in Iraq…brings with it a prospect of great changes.”
Vaguely pretending to be in favor of peace with Arabs, Ariel Sharon speaks in the context of the war in Iraq after the fall of Saddam’s regime, “eventually there will be a Palestinian state” as well as his support for for Mahmoud Abbas (more commonly referred to as Abu Mazen), who is Arafat’s choice for the new Palestinian Prime Minister.
He made it clear, however that “…there will be no concessions…I do not think that we have to rule over another people and run their lives,” yet concluding with “The end of the conflict will come only with the arrival of the recognition of the Jewish people’s right to its homeland.”
Good luck, buddy, on your two state theory with lines like that. I guess for some people Sharon’s uttering of the words “Palestinian state” is enough for them. For others, just the phrase pushes him to far left for any support at all.
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So much for your “All Arabs are Terrorists” theory
A group of Kalishnikov-bearing Iraqi Muslims came to the aid of Baghdad’s Jewish community last night when a group of marauders attempted to loot the local JCC. Of the incident, Ibrahim Mohamad, one of the Muslim defenders said, “The Jews have always lived here, in this house, and it is only normal that we should protect them.”
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Going once, going twice
Internet auction site eBay is getting itself into murky waters again. Earlier this month eBay was under fire again for selling soap from Auschwitz. The Polish seller, who claims that the only other known Auschwitz soap is on display at the Holocaust museum on the site of the concentration camp, asks eBay users to “see our other listings for more cool stuff.” We, however, suggest that if you’re in the market for intriguing soap products, try primalelements.com.
Speaking of auctions, Winona Ryder is back in the news. The Jewish actress best known for her roles in Little Women, Edward Scissorhands, and taking part in a riveting shoplifting incident at a Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue last year is back in the news again. At a recent court appearance where Ryder showed up to tell the judge that she had completed all 480 hours of community service that he had ordered — ahead of schedule, Ryder suggested that she auction off the shoplifted items for charity. The judge sparred with Ryder’s lawyer over the idea even though the stolen property now rightfully belongs to Ryder since she paid a $10,000 fine. “Your client should not benefit” from her crime, said Judge Elden Fox. We just want to know which charity she had in mind. Can anyone say Hadassah?
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Build a Sustainable Medical Clinic in the Northern Negev
Bustan L’shalom is looking for volunteers to help build a solar-powered, straw-bale medical clinic in Wadi el Na’am, to provide temporary medical assistance for 4,000 el-Azazme Bedouin who live 2km away from Israel’s toxic waste incinerator. If you’re in ha’aretz, they sure could use your help — or you could just send them your money.
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A Renewalist’s Take on the original platform of Reform Judaism
“Judaism speaks through the Jew and not only to the Jew.”
Check out Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s “Manifesto Toward a Second American Jewish Revolution.”
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Public Prayer Illegal for Women at the Kotel
After 14 years, the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that Nashot Hakotel (Women of the Wall) may no longer conduct prayer services at the Western Wall.
When asked for comment, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, the rabbi of the Western Wall, remarked that the decision “prevented desecration of a holy site,” suggesting that the behavior of women who wear prayer shawls and phylacteries is “provacative.”
G!d forbid all Jews, women and men, should be entitled to pray at this holy site in safety and with dignity.
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The Dark Arts
The Robots Have Feelings Too group art show, currently taking place through May 18th at Culture Cache Gallery in San Francisco, spotlights many brilliant modern artists (whose works you can peruse on their website), my favorite of which being event curator Jeff Soto, whose graf-inspired robot-beings remind me somewhat of Mark Ryden, who is currently exhibiting his latest work at the Earl McGrath Gallery in Los Angeles.
However, one participating artist who profoundly garnered my attention with his dark and provocative work is Jonathan Weiner, a RISD grad and Brooklynite, whose pieces Subterranean Benediction and Sephardic Dancer invoke Judaic symbolism rather intrigueingly in a Tim Burtonesque Nightmare Before Christmas kind of way. (Notice the payes & the Cohanic hand gesture in SB?) Weiner’s collected works are both stunning and impressive. If you’re in the San Fran area, I recommend you check out the show.
Also, on the Jewish art front, my friend David’s step-father, Paul Graubard, will be exhibiting work that has been “inspired by [his] visions of Jewish life,” at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, from May 8 through June 7.
On April 30-July 30, director Pearl Gluck and musician Basya Shechter will be exhibiting an installation at the Eldridge Street Project. “Using fragments of lived experience from the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue and its surrounding historic neighborhood, Trance is a sound and video installation that breaks boundaries and sparks cross cultural dialogue between the Asian and Jewish communities on the Lower East Side.”
And while we’re on the subject of art—I recommend a visit to the website of David Friedman, a kabbalistic artist from Tzefat, whose works explore the deepest levels of Jewish mysticism with vivid colors and a delightfully cartoonish candor. More of my friends have his prints hanging than any other artist I’m aware of.
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Couting the Homer
JVibe writes, “As part of our Passover preparations, [we]‘d like to remind you delete all the cookies from your computer.” Har har. Once your hard drive is chametz-free, join everyone’s favorite prime-time doofus, Homer J. Simpson, in Counting the Omer.
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Why This War Spells Trouble for Jews
An open letter to Paul Wolfowitz …It’s a month old, apparently, but an enlightening read, nonetheless.
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