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The Jews Burst the Balloon of the Arabs' Dreams

Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

The Jews Burst the Balloon of the Arabs' Dreams

What Is This Jew Referring To?

My Right Word (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Ynet quotes one Dan Rickman writing : Many Jews are familiar with negative images from the Koran if only because these are used frequently in the ongoing propaganda wars between Zionist and anti-Zionist groups. Yet many Jews are unaware that within Jewish sources there are also many negative stereotypes about “the other”, the most radical perhaps being a view in the Palestinian...

Kosher comics prove hit with Israel's Haredi Jews

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

A far cry from the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Lois Lane, chaste and religious comics have become a hit among ultra-Orthodox Jews determined not to pollute their children's minds. For the reclusive Haredi society that shuns television, Internet and video viewed as a source of moral corruption, the no-sex, no-violence comics offer benign entertainment and a fun way of teaching...

Times: British Jews in a civil war over conversion

Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Raw Jewish identity politics at play in Britain. And this is not such a complicated case. It's a shame they let this issue get so far and become so public without reaching a conciliation within the community. Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question By SARAH LYALL LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex...

• Who is a Jew? British case raises question - STLtoday.com
• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - New York Times

Koran: Allah (G-d) Ordered Jews into Eretz-Israel!

Lilo's SWI Blogs (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

If Hamas, Hezbollah and ‘the rest’ are fighting a Holy Jihad against the infidel invader then what do they make of the following passages from the Koran? The Pan-Islamists, from Ahmadinejad, to Haniya, Nassrallah make claims that the Jews are invaders. Some have even made claims that Jews never even existed upon the land and [...]

How threatened are Jews by alternative views? (hint: a lot)

Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday

Parochial Jews love to feel like victims, despite the fact that they’re largely a successful, connected and wealthy community. Being a victim is terribly effective politically, despite its inherent dishonesty. In that tradition, here’s a recent letter in the Australian Jewish News: Where would we Australian Jews be without our demons? Without (in no particular order) The [...]...

London – Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? Court Ruling Raises Question

Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday

London – The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, [...]

Since When Is The Extermination Of Jews Not An Effective Argument Against Health Care?

Democralypse Now (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

... to praise freedom and shout obscenities at that Kenyan man. And to think, all it took to get the Jews riled up was a poster showing piles of Jewish corpses with the caption National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany--1945. All class, those teabaggers! After Thursday's Bachmann-led "Super Bowl of Freedom," David A. Harris, President of the National Jewish Democratic Council...

A Glimmer of Hope from the Past –The Bulgarians and their Jews

Israel Commentary (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi's by smuggling them...

Rihanna's Forehead - watch it, dudes :: Simply Jews

Israelated (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Now that one is really funny and has a cooling effect of its own. Enjoy.

Who Is A Jew?

Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The Times has an interesting story about a British legal case involving admission requirements to a Jewish school. Specifically, the courts are looking at limits on the right of religious schools to define who qualifies as a member of a particular faith group. The issue arises because the British government funds religious schools, as governments do in many nations. Although some people would like...

Separation Anxiety: British Courts To Decide Who Is a Jew

JONATHAN TURLEY (Free subscription) | yesterday

There is an intriguing case in London where the British courts will decide who is a Jew and who decides such a question. The British have long maintained publicly supported religious schools — an affront to the separation of church and state. Now, inevitably, the state must decide who can be excluded from [...]

"Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question."

How Appealing (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

"Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question." This article will appear Sunday in The New York Times....

Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

“This is potentially the biggest case in the British Jewish community’s modern history.” Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question By SARAH LYALL • New York Times LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No....

Religious Jews shun comics that "pollute" minds

Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Religious and chaste comics have become a hit among ultra-Orthodox Jews who fear the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Superman's Lois Lane will pollute and corrupt their children's minds. For the reclusive Haredi society that shuns television, Internet and video