Newly arrived Falash Mura from Ethiopia are assigned to a hostel in Tiberias. They’ve spent much of the last three weeks in the hostel’s bomb shelter, but are not complaining. The CBC reports:
Yayesh Aitagl, who arrived with her husband and daughter 15 months ago, said she is scared, even though the staff at the hostel [...]
From an Edah email:
1. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) is absorbing the Journal, the website
and the audio-visual library. We are still discussing with them whether and
how the name of Edah will survive on any or all of these programs. Those
decisions will be based on administrative needs, and ideological issues will
not inform the matter. Dr. Eugene Korn [...]
Steven I. Weiss asks Discovery Institute fellow and Forward columnist David Klinghoffer about Mel Gibson’s antisemitic outburst:
Booze goes in, truth comes out. Yes, it does seem that Gibson has an anti-Semitism problem as of this past weekend. What we don’t and can’t know is whether, if he’d got drunk three years ago and been pulled [...]
From today’s Slate:
And it has been obvious for some time to the most meager intelligence that he is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred. This is not just proved by his twistedly homoerotic spank-movie The Passion of the Christ …
[T]he difference between the blood-alcohol levels—and indeed the speed limits—that occasioned the booking are insufficient [...]
Now that we know Mel Gibson is an antisemite, one must wonder what Michael Medved, the Rabbi Daniel Lapin acolyte and Salem Radio talk show host (and, therefore, TownHall.com columnist), will do with Gibson’s Jew problem. Lapin has been a shill for the Christian right for years, as has Medved. Medved was a big supporter [...]
From the July 21, 2006 Wall Street Journal:
A medical resident — we called her “Dr. Death” — at the Intensive Care Unit at Long Island’s North Shore Hospital chased us down the hallway.
“Your husband wants to die,” she told my mother, again. Just minutes before I had asked her to leave us alone.
“He can’t even [...]
I still need a copy of the Beit Yitzchak Journal, 5746. Any help in this regard will be much appreciated. Thank you!
Ynet has a remarkable report on haredim who, while not fighting in the army, take this war very seriously:
“More than 50 years ago the ultra-orthodox community said ‘you fight and we’ll pray’”, said a staff member at the prime minister’s office this week, also a close aid of the former prime minister Ariel Sharon.
“It’s true [...]
The New York Times reports:
Alexander Safran, the former chief rabbi of Romania who tried to prevent the deportation of Jews by his country’s pro-Nazi regime during World War II, died on Thursday at his home here. He was 95.…
After leaving Romania for Switzerland, Rabbi Safran became the chief rabbi of Geneva in 1948. He was [...]
Sir Martin Gilbert was kind enough to respond to challenges posed by FailedMessiah.com readers, including DovBear. With his permission, his response:
One of your readers writes to you (entirely erroneously in my view):
“Churchill knew about the dangers the Jewish people
faced, and even gave speeches about it, well before
WWII officially started. However, once the war
started, rescuing Jews [...]
The Board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA have put $300,000 into a matching fund to help Israeli victims of the war. This means that, if you donate, your donation will in effect be doubled.
The Center says it will give the funds to reputable Israeli nonprofits working with the refugees and victims. [...]
This is the best piece I’ve yet seen on what life is like for those who have not fled northern Israel. When plumbers are on the front lines …
Meanwhile, Tzemach Atlas is photo-blogging the war.
Edah has sent out a link to an Israel-based website that has what Edah calls the “most complete listing that we have seen” of worthy projects to support in various ways.
What is striking about this list are the many people hosting, feeding and clothing refugees from the north, and doing so without any help for [...]
The Jewish Student Press Service held a conference in late Fall of 1982 in NYC. The lineup was stellar – Anthony Lewis from the NYTimes, Nat Hentoff, and other Jewish journalism pros – and very left. This conference took place a few months after the Lebanon War started, and Israel was taking a beating in [...]
