Hamas surprise victory in last week’s elections for the Palestinian Authority parliament has sent policy makers in Jerusalem, Brussels, and Washington D.C. into a tizzy. Diplomats prefer dealing with a known quantity, however noxious,...
It seems that my post of yesterday, asserting “foul play” in the blog award voting, has touched some sort of raw nerve among other J-bloggers — especially those who are contenders in some of...
In the comments to Yakov Menken’s latest JIB post, Micha wrote: But in what sense is this a religious blog, rather than a political blog run by religious people? and Shlomo added: Let me...
UPDATE: I was right. The relevant votes were deducted overnight / early today, Feb. 1. Please vote for us anyway. 🙂 [FURTHER UPDATE: A friend said this is “petty.” Nothing of the kind was...
Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Being somewhat partial to his music, it seemed appropriate to come up with something positive and Jewish about him. One thing...
This morning’s JPost has this headline: Haredim riot in Jerusalem, Abu Kabir. “Hundreds of Haredim rioted in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood,” it says, “in protest over an autopsy carried out on the body of...
Everyone knows that chareidim are hopelessly out of touch with modernity, hapless Luddites who are forever placing bans on this or that aspect of the fearsome outside world. This being so, you’d think that...
In the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards, we are #2 in the Jewish Religion category (and #1 in the other three categories in which we were nominated). Since all the top competitors are re-emphasizing...
No, this isn’t crazy. It’s a theory that could even turn out to be true. I don’t mean to suggest that the Hamas victory is definitely good news — but it could well be...
From Amanda Rush of customerservant.com, comes a new indication that Microsoft is out to make everything easier — even quickie conversions. She gives me credit for noticing the truth stranger than fiction to go...
