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- The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.
- The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper.
- The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
- U.S. Jewish groups blasted the U.N. General Assembly for its endorsement of the Goldstone report into last winter's Gaza war.
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Iran may have tested secret nuclear warhead design
- Report: U.S. stopped Israeli attack on weapons ship
- U.S. sees Abbas in continuing role
- Groups blast UNGA Goldstone vote
- Israel delivers swine flu vaccines to Palestinian Authority
- Abbas announces he won’t run for re-election
- IAEA head: No worries about Iran nuclear site
- Mideast peace push cited in Obama Nobel
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
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Posted in: What kind of meat do Jewish food activists eat?
01/08/09 01:48 PM
I think Charles Jackson overreacted at best. This group wasn't elitist, they were just trying to learn about and experience first hand something that is all too distant from our grocery store shopping experience. It's a fairly common business principle that before you attempt to affect a system that you must actually look at it clearly in every single step. These people are among a small group who can actually say they know what they are eating. I think it's admirable! We all know we have to consume less, waste less and recyle more. When are we going to start doing that? After the planet is uninhabitable? How long are we going to be happy to have a "servant class" who is in touch with all the workings of our lives and just hope that someone somewhere figures it all out so we can go on in dreamland? Talmudic reality included eating meat, for most people, three times a year at holiday times when they could afford to kill a cow. Keeping Americans in red meat has huge consequences and we all know it, we just don't want to look. As a person who actually grew up in a rural setting, I can picture all those steps and I'd like to align my life with those realities. In fact, most people who have the average American yard could have chickens and learn to kill and clean them themselves. Maybe if we did that we'd satisfy ourselves with slow food and respect the food we eat more. If we persist, as Orthodox Jews in being "city people" we will get what we deserve. The problem with that is that we won't be a light to anyone, just more darkness.
Posted in: Do shiksas really have more fun?
01/08/09 01:40 PM
It's amazing that the JTA would report such banality about the intermarriage question just because someone wrote a novel. This issue was discussed by Meir Kahane some 30 odd years ago and by about 2 million researchers ever since. Remind him of his mother? How about the intense materialism that is constantly reported? How about ethnic self hatred? How about men who are spiritual and don't like JAPs? How about the evidence that Jewish women intermarry just as readily as Jewish men nowadays even though it was once, a long time ago, not true? She says she's not an expert and that's surely clear. but if she hasn't anything to say, why interview her? It's not her fault that you report such triviality!
Posted in: Riotous pro-Palestinian marches spark anxiety among French Jews
01/05/09 03:34 PM
The behavior of the Pro-Gaza demonstrators speaks volumes about why Israel must fight back. The supporters of Gaza, like the so called government of Gaza believes in violent solutions to problems. The government of Gaza does not negotiate, it throws Qassams. The Muslim community in France should hang it's head in shame that it's young people see leaders like this. There is only one course of action when a country like Israel, so small with such concentrated population centers, is faced with violent enemies. They understand violence! When they start understanding dialogue then we can do that. But until then, we have to respond in kind!
Posted in: Engaging young Hungarian Jews
12/09/08 02:39 PM
Limmud rocks! check out www.allforthekids.com for other cool volunteer opportunities in India, now they really need our help
Posted in: Hezbollah won't meet with Carter
12/09/08 02:36 PM
tell that little dirt bag to find a nice bed right underneath those weapons of mass destruction that they moved out of Iraq with his help, tell him to get into it with a nice young whore where he can have unclean thoughts but do nothing because he could never get it up anyway!
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