Israeli TV is not just for cable anymore. Israel National TV‘s weekly news magazine, a half hour English language news broadcast which offers a different persepective than normally portrayed on American networks, will debut this evening on local station NewTV in Newton, Mass. The show is already being broadcast in Chicago as well.
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Nir Aharon is a Beer Sheva native and a graduate of the Vital Center for Design Studies in Tel Aviv. An Israeli street artist, his latest project depicts “images of women in fairy tales as reflected in the 21st century.”
Check out his website to see more of his work. (c/o Wooster Collective)
For more rockin’ Israeli street art, also check out the work of R*A*S and Rami Meiri, as well as these peculiar circut box paintings from Ramat Gan: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Incidentally, while hunting for Israeli street art online, I also came across an interesting article on political graffiti in Israel from the World Zionist Organization. To see some politically-charged street art, check out the shots from April 1st’s Artists Without Walls event, and well, this shot and this shot from Velvet Art’s Fotolog.
Know of any more Israeli street artists? Hit us off with some links in the comments…
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Otto David Sherman is an outstanding NYC-based mail artist who just so happens to be a close personal friend of my fam’s. Often, he’ll unexpectedly mail me and my mom original works which usually bear homemade stamps that ridicule Nazis and other assorted fascholes.
His latest piece is exceptionally relevant and, some might say, humorous, as it features ‘cancelled’ stamps bearing images of assassinated Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, as well as a Hitler-stache sporting Yassir Arafat who appears to be awaiting his own imminent ‘cancellation’.
You can find more examples of Otto’s extraordinary work (and I mean extraordinary in the most literal sense) on his website, ottoart.com.
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Dr. Rabbi Melchizedek Azolene of Makani claims he has discovered a cure for AIDS, concocted of Native African herbs. The Rabbi says he already cured many people with his so-called “‘Moses divine Antacid powder.” The powder was concocted observing all necessary dietary restrictions. 
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A new sattelite image of the famous protruding structure high on Turkey’s Mt. Ararat reveals it to be “boat shaped.”
For years, it has been claimed that the structure is indeed the biblical ark of Noah, which allegedly came to rest on that very mountain. Now, the first ever investigative expedition permitted by the Turkish government will set forth in hopes of reaching the ark. The results may disprove the popular scientific theory that although the flood could have happened, it is impossible for the ark to have settled that high.
While the risky expedition may contain a serious element of “survival of the fittest” (as with any cold mountain climbing endeavor) the potential discovery could leave non-believers treading high water.
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While driving around in the city this past Friday afternoon with my good friend whom you know from the comments as Ultracrepidarian, we pulled up alongside a white Econoline van that bore a NY license plate which read ‘ALEPH’, as well as kabbalistic symbols and -ahem- forbidden names of G-d scrawled across its side. As we sat at a traffic light somewhere on 2nd Ave., just shy of the driver’s side window, we asked each other—what the hell could that possibly be for? Some creepy pop kabbalah cult? Some whacky kabbalistic missionaries? Did Philip Berg get a van? No… not quite.
As the light changed, and we inched up further, the driver’s door revealed the true nature of this provoking vehicular display. It wasn’t some freaky religious group after all. Rather, it was Aleph Heating & Air Conditioning Service. Ultra and I both plotzed. “It’s like that episode of Seinfeld with the janitor’s cult,” he noted. “Yes, we fix your air conditioning good. Take this red string!” It was then that I wished I had my camera so that I could share this odd curiosity with all of you. Fortune, however, was not on my side at this time.
Our story took on an additionally amusing yet almost eerie turn, when I flicked on my computer after Shabbos last night, and there, awaiting me in my inbox, was a photo of the very van itself, snapped by Jewschool’s own John Brown, and passed on to me with the same bungling “What the fuck?” sensation which had stricken Ultra and I.
Thus, ladies and gentlemen, behold The Kabbalah Van:
Fookin’ spectacular.
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Has anyone else noticed that Jew Watch is now completely missing from Google’s index when searching for the word “Jew”?
[Update] To the neo-Nazi scumfucks visting us from the Resistance Records and Micetrap Records websites (where white power wussies are whining about our lil’ Googlebomb and giving us free promo in the process), I’d just like to welcome you to the chood by saying, AM YISROEL CHAI, BITCHES!
“You guys take shekels? Cuz uh, I just got back from a trip to Israel and all I got is a pocketfull of shekels…”
[Update] Google addresses magically disappearing Jew Watch.
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that antisemitism as we ‘knew’ it no longer exists. Nowadays, the children and grandchildren of the fascists who fed our families to the ovens are clamoring for our votes. They’re not out to kill us, rather they’re out to kiss our asses (hence, for example, Bush’s capitulation to Sharon’s policy, Germany arresting and prosecuting neo-Nazis, Musolinni’s daughter visiting Israel and apologizing for her father’s actions, etc.), and for the first time in, perhaps, eons, Jews are enjoying an exceptional level of comfort, safety and respect in a major Western society. Some have even gone so far to say, “We’ve never had it so good.”
Despite fringe elements on the right and left (who have no real numbers to pose any sort of threat), it would seem that the only substantial group remaining that is incurably bent on hating Jews today are Muslims ticked off about the Israeli occupation (and, as some consider, thinly-veiled ethnic cleansing) of Palestine. Antisemitism’s on the rise, Abe Foxman and Phyllis Chesler warn us. But look at the numbers: According to the EU’s report on antisemitism (which they tried to bury because they don’t want to incite a race war) young Muslim men committed the vast majority of antisemitic acts throughout Europe in the last decade. The same goes for Canada, apparently, where there’s an ever-growing Muslim population. An added glance at the Middle East and, perhaps, Asia, would suggest that, all world over, it’s radical Muslims who are the nearly-lone torchbearers of antisemitism—and not even as an outgrowth of bonafide Jew-hatred, but rather as an unenlightened response to political frustrations.
Thus, the question arises, how can we do away with this purported “last bastion” of antisemitism? Could it be, perhaps, by giving up our designs on Palestine? In a recent blog post, Douglas Rushkoff expands on the question—with an interesting and rather original twist.
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Making its rounds about Jewish inboxes this week was the most recent issue of The Medium, the so-called “Entertainment Weekly of Rutgers University.” On its cover, the magazine bears the headline “Holocaust Rememberance Week: Springfest 2004,” and depicts a dunking booth-like oven with a hasidic man sitting atop it, along with the caption “Knock a Jew in the oven! Three throws for one dollar!”
The magazine attempts to deflect criticism of this simply disgusting display with the following Q&A on the “about” page of their website:
Q: Do you actually think some of this garbage is funny?
A1: No, we actually think it’s hilarious.
A2: No, we’d prefer a few more jokes about the disabled, the oppressed, and your deceased family members. We are evil, after all.
A3: Yes, we do. We find that humor is our special way of dealing with the changing fortunes and hardships of life. We find that, as odd as it may sound, by making fun of some of these potentially scary and depressing things, we actually can better deal with them. OK, actually we don’t feel that way, we just hate life and hate you, too.
Sophomoric and just plain unfunny much, what?
Considering the magazine operates as a school club, paid for with student association funds, I gave Rutgers a call to find out if publishing content of this nature with school funds was prohibited by university regulations. Unfortunately, the person with whom I need to speak is unavailable until later this afternoon. I’ll follow up as soon as I get through…
In the meantime, the president of the university is demanding an apology from the students involved in its publication. One of them, Ned Berke, who selected the cartoon, is himself Jewish, and a relative of Holocaust victims. “Humor is a way of honoring them and trying to get over it and to laugh,” he told Newsday. “The Holocaust has been taboo for years.”
Uh yeah, maybe because there’s nothing funny about it? “Hahah! My 18 month-old uncle died in an oven!* Isn’t that a gas! Giggle, giggle!” What a jackass.
*This is true, by the way. My mom’s would-have-been-older brother Chaim Elazar was fed to an oven in Auschwitz when he was 18 months old. Clearly, you can see why I don’t find this cartoon even slightly amusing.
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I just spoke to Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg about his recent interview with Marjorie Mazel Hecht for Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review.
Hertzberg assured me that prior to the interview he had no idea who LaRouche is, nor what a contemptuous fascist and antisemite he is. He assured me that he in no way endorsed LaRouche in the context of the interview (the questions seem to have been reworked in order to create that impression), but more importantly, he still stands by everything he said about “those fatheads” Bush and Sharon. And uh, he also said, anyone who doesn’t like it, can (to put it more pleasantly than he) piss off.
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The NY Times reports,
Soy food, for some Israeli kibbutzniks, is the modern equivalent of biblical manna, the food that appeared miraculously to the Israelites in the wilderness. In fact, for two kibbutzim – the farming collectives that were central to early Israeli statehood – the soy business has been a savior of sorts, steering them from their socialist roots to capitalism, and providing financial security in the process.
Ahhh… so soy‘s to blame for the capitalist infiltration that destroyed the kibbutzim. And soy from G-d at that. Makes perfect sense.
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Students at Princeton have come together to form a Muslim-Jewish dialogue group “to learn about each other’s societies and cultures over hummus and pitas.” The successful group has only one catch—no talkin’ politics! Apparently, up to that point, we all can just get along.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg reflected on her Jewish heritage before the crowd at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Rememberance event yesterday, saying “The demand for justice runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition.”
She then spoke of the mezuzah on her chambers’ door which bears the biblical verse, “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”
“Those words,” said Ginsberg, “are ever-present reminders of what judges must do that they may thrive.”
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Entrenched in the night club scene, haredi rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, of Migdal Haemek, has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize.
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The Scotsman reports,
A wealthy Jewish businessman suing a rabbi over an alleged campaign of sexual slanders today denied that he had offered a family friend one million dollars for his wife.
Aw man, this sounds like the makings of an episode of The Rebbe’s Court.
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