Mishegaas
- Ironic Sans examines design trends in terrorist logos, with a special focus on Palestinian factions. Commenters demand the Haganah’s addition to the list.
- 40 high-profile Israeli classical musicians signed a petition calling for an end to the occupation.
- In his new book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart Ehrman contends that “there are more points of disagreement between [New Testament] manuscripts than there are words in the Gospels.”
- Foreign Policy offers a list of the World’s Stupidest Fatwas.
- Jabotinsky’s grandson hears call for unity in Peres’ observations on the Right and Left’s shared interest in population warfare.
- 10 individuals were indicted at haredi-dominated Touro College in a cash for grades scandal.
- Doctors say that kvetching is self-perpetuating.
- The Religious Action Center has a podcast discussing sexual ethics curriculum and the OU’s obscene anti-contraception propaganda.
- This is what I imagine Judith Weiss and her friends sound like when they’re not simply telling racist jokes.
- Uri Lupolianski says Jews will be the minority in Jerusalem within 10 years. All the more reason to divide Jerusalem along Route 1…
- Shas MK Eli Yishai says he’ll indict Steimatzky for holding its Harry Potter launch on Shabbos.
- The Reform movement has launched a massive aliyah campaign.
- Israeli scouts snubbed a Muslim American scout troop at an interfaith scout pow-wow, after offering a gaudy display of Zionist nationalism.
- And now, the jPhone:
I only think it’s funny cuz I love Yisrael Campbell.
man the ironic Jewish humor youtube output these days is at least 90% unfunny.
and that wasn’t a bottle of schnapps; it was Johnny Adom. get familiar.
*everyone* loves Yisrael Campbell!
Why couldn’t iPhone at least take shower or wash his face before filming? It looks like he just finished playing basketball.
hey, mob,
i was intrigued by the scout thing but after reading it i think your description was off. it sounds like the muslim leaders left their scouts home (so the israelis weren’t the ones snubbing) and the real issue, it seems to me on the first read, was that these Muslims (like many American religious groups, who often tend not to understand Jews being an ethnicity in addition to a religion) expected the Israeli scouts to come and share something about their “faith,” Judaism. but the Israelis, it seems safe to assume, were of the secular sort that make up the majority in israel, and came to share what they saw as their culture – which to them was a national culture, not a religious one.
i’ve always got an eye out for real acts of Zionist imposition or snubbery, so i don’t want to throw the accusation around where it’s not right. this to me seems like a case where that label is not deserved.