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A Half-way Comprehensive List of Famous Arab and Muslim Jews (as paradoxical as that might sound)

By Maytha ⋅ May 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Seeing as how many people become shocked by the news that comedic megastar Jerry Seinfeld is part Syrian (Hungarian Jewish Father, Syrian Jewish Mother-HALABIYYA on top of it all!), and also in light of Lag B’Omer and the Second Passover, I decided to compile a list of famous Arab, mostly Arab American, Jews: Talal Asad’s [...]

A Jewish Professor Wins Big in Arab Land

By Hanitizer ⋅ April 29, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Forget the Swine flu for a second the news are in, an American professor has made the news by becoming the first Jew to win a prestigious Arab prize—no, not land this time. The King Faisal International Prize in Medicine also known on the street as the “Arab Nobel Prize.” Was awarded to Stanford professor [...]

Hide the Female Ministers

By Hanitizer ⋅ April 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Huffington Post recently ran a story about an Israeli scandal of a different size. Apparently the oasis of democracy and the guardian of freedom in the Middle East has a problem with women in power. Reports revealed the disappearing of two female ministers serving in the new Israeli Cabinet led by Benjamin Netanyahu. Members [...]

2008 Palestine Solidarity Activist of the Year: Bernard L. Madoff

By Will ⋅ March 10, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Bernard L. Madoff, the man said to have bilked scores of his Jewish friends and philanthropies out of billions of dollars, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of running Wall Street’s biggest fraud. The former Nasdaq stock market chairman allegedly confessed to running a “giant Ponzi scheme” over decades. A Ponzi scheme [...]

Love Song for “Islamic Fundamentalists”

By Peppermint Patty ⋅ January 15, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

This hippie American Jew just wants you to love him… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FBQKmcvgo] Seriously though, why do they insist on pronouncing it خمس and خزبلة? I don’t get it.

Best Seat in the House

By Hanitizer ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ 15 comments

Is Israeli TV so bad that Israelis are gathering to watch the daytime fireworks show in Gaza? If I was an enterprising Israeli, I would take advantage of the crowds and set up a hot dog stand (Hebrew National dogs only…yes, the brand that answers to a higher authority) and a kosher popcorn machine to [...]

A Diasporic Split?

By Will ⋅ October 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I wonder if they make Obama kufi’s too? In an interesting New York Review of Books article about a proponent of Yiddish language preservation in America, Harold Bloom shared an interesting observation made by a leading intellectual inspiration for the Neo-Conservatives: Leo Strauss provocatively observed that American Jewry was not part of the Exile while [...]

Happy Rosh HaShanah!!!

By Programmer Buydatti ⋅ September 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Remember Kaplan & Shwartz, KABOBfest’s favorite law firm hip-hop group? Well, they’re back again with a Rosh HaShanah MEGA MIX! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ--LUfitJs] In case you’re interested, their album’s called Kosher Kutz. Get it before it’s sold out!