Mishegaas
- Late for Halloween: How to kill a Jewish vampire.
- Borat breaks character for Rolling Stone.
- Mixed Multitudes points out a positively ridiculous letter in the Jewish Week accusing Borat of being an antisemitic Muslim conspiracy.
- Hate crimes against Jews in NYC are up 28% since last year.
- Election Defense Alliance reports massive election tampering favoring Republicans by 4%.
- December 17 will mark the 144th anniversary of the little-known expulsion of the Jews from the United States.
- New book shows US gov’t allowed al Qaeda to operate freely within the US.
- Jay Michaelson on Jerusalem’s pride rally.
- Kesher Talk’s Judith Weiss has a run-in with Rachel Corrie’s parents. (Beware the detestable comments.)
- Shahar Ilan: Proposed changes to Israel’s system of government will imperil the state.
- An Israeli Arab will attend Iran’s planned Holocaust “studies” conference in December to repudiate claims that the Shoah is a hoax.
- Minor Fast Days has some interesting thoughts on Zeev Bielski’s GA comments.
- The Economist reviews Europe At War, a new book which deconstructs our conventional wisdom about WWII.
- A new generation of Poles are discovering their Jewish roots.
- Was Karl Marx really an antisemite?
- The Volokh Conspiracy remembers late Jewish economist Milton Friedman by sharing his thoughts on Israel’s penchant for Socialism.
- “Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism”
- Corante’s Online Dating Insider takes note of the growing use of psychological profiling to make matches at Jewish dating sites.
- Failed Messiah: “Why Hyphenated Judaism Fails Every Time” and likewise, at Jewbiquitous.
This is for Yehudit:
http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=236
“Rachel’s Tomb was always a part of Bethlehem city, and a pilgrimage place for people of the three monotheistic religions. Today the tomb is becoming a military camp and open only for Jews. As planned by the Israeli government it is going to be annexed to Jerusalem. This de facto policy that the Israeli government is applying, costs the Palestinians a lot of their land, homes and heritage that they have conserved throughout history in addition to the damages in Bethlehem tourist industry and the Palestinian economy in general. “