Mishegaas
- Vote for Balkan Beat Box in the BBC’s Radio 3 World Music Awards!
- The Hadassah Brandeis Institute has launched a new e-zine for Jewish women: 614.
- The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books has launched an amazing online resource of out-of-print seforim [religious texts] in PDF format. Check out HebrewBooks.org.
- Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year. After peaking at a worth of $12,000,000 in October, they are now holding at about $8,000,000. So glad this war’s going well for somebody!
- Jewish settlers ravaged a Palestinian cemetery in the West Bank last Wednesday, while under supervision of the IDF.
- Incidents of antisemitism are on the rise internationally.
- A neo-Nazi group in Minnesota is planning a public book burning, and has announced their intention to burn a copy of the Talmud.
- The folks at ESV Bible have mapped the relationships between characters in the New Testament. Someone ought to do this for the Tanakh!
- Make your own stem cells at home! Human placenta and a strong stomach required.
- The SF Chronicle profiles David Plotz and his provocative series Blogging The Bible.
- Israel’s Supreme Court has approved same sex unions.
- Donnie Davies: Hoax or homophobe? You decide. Don’t miss his extremely disturbing music video.
- dharmalife interviews Norman Fischer, a Zen Roshi who is trying to integrate his Buddhist practice with a traditional Jewish observance.
Donnie Davis appears to be a character played by a guy named Joel Oglesby. I saw the Donnie Davis website a while ago and immediately knew it was fake because of some of the “gay bands” he listed. If he practiced restraint at not making some easy jokes, it might have been more believable. Come on, DMX? Ghostface Killah? That’s the line.
http://www.thevelveetaroom.com/comics/chicken.html
Nobel laureate: Mobius a bigger threat to Israel than nukes —
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120408
“Israel’s Supreme Court has approved same sex unions. ”
Thank G-d! Now we can all stop pretending that Israel is a democratic state and instead is ruled by what, eight or nine people?
“Israel’s Supreme Court has approved same sex unions.” – I don’t think anything new happened on this. This seems to just be a repost of news that is several months old. And an incorrect repost at that. The court ruling was about REGISTRATION of same-sex marriages performed abroad, not RECOGNITION. Under Israeli law (and in the eyes of the court in this ruling), these are two distinct things (the court had ruled that clerks were required to register a same-sex marriage from abroad if the couple so requested, but they specifically said no state or legal benefits should then come from that registration – although the logic here got a bit twisted and the justices admitted that some folks might indeed assume “registration” means the marriage is legally valid). So unless there is something I don’t know about and the court just issued another ruling, or a clarification of the original ruling, there is no new news. Please correct me if I’m wrong, though!
They’re gonna burn a copy of the Talmud? Where are they gonna get it? Are they gonna buy it? So, nu? Are they gonna steal it from a Minnesota library? Stupid nazis.