aka things I’ve been too busy to blog…

• Canonist reports that CoP exec. dir. Malcolm Hoenlein told listeners on a Jewish radio program in NJ that he wants to see the borders of Israel extended from Cairo to Damascus. Transcript here.
• Treppenwitz reveals (and condemns) a plan by Arutz Sheva and various popular jbloggers to campaign against the upcoming World Pride Day festivities in Jerusalem.
• Solomonia reports on changes to the Presbyterian policy on divestiture.
• Georgia Republican Lynn Westmoreland, is co-sponsoring a bill on the 10 Commandments, yet can’t even name them.
• 27B Stroke 6 relays the tale of a convicted computer hacker who used Tanakh to justify his resistance to a state-mandated bloodletting.
• The Reform movement got a new executive veep and a new siddur.
• A neighborhood of Kiryat Sefer has enacted a ban on Sephardi residents.
• The head of Mahmoud Abbas’ private militia says the guns they’ve just received from Israel will only be used to attack Israelis.
• Nearly 25% of all Americans are tattooed.
• “A new documentary chronicles a summer camp where children, as young as six, are trained to become devout Christian soldiers.”
• Since 9/11, most Arab Americans have come to fear police.
• A Diebold lobbyist made a $10,000 donation to Kenneth Blackwell’s campaign.
• Iran, last month, arrested over 50 Baha’i on the basis of their faith alone.