Remembering Holocaust: the first British shots of WW II

The subject of the Holocaust is, frankly, too big for me to handle. There are people who made it their life study, there still are some surv...

A magic word against magic mushrooms

A bureaucrat, whose foremost ambition is to maintain the stasis, knows very well that the best way to avoid any change is to use the magic w...

The potential economic impact of Haredi men in the workforce

This article is a follow-up to one in which Naftali Bennett announced the publication o a Bill on military service for the Haredi. Unfortun...

Air France fined for being sensible

This short article tells of Air France being fined for kicking a "flytilla" (remember that ill-fated non-protest?) activist off a...

Howard Kurtz on Hillary Clinton: a backhanded compliment?

Hillary Clinton is incredibly popular right now in part because she's had diplomatic immunity for the past four years. Except for the af...

Russians having some fun with Dmitry Yakovlev bill: bring Sergey Brin back!

Dmitry Yakovlev bill is a purely political brain child of the Russian legislative branch. The Dima Yakovlev Bill bans entry to US citizens ...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Gay Patriot – Random Thoughts on Gay Marriage Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit...

North Korea: moment of explosion or bluff? And why Kim Jong Un is not crazy.

The Norks are doing it in the usual style , which is not to say much if there is no quote: We formally inform the White House and Pentagon t...

Male baldness and the eggheads' sensitivity

I would guess that there are some bald men between researchers too, but this article clearly points to a group of hairy and very insensitiv...

Gazan rocket scientists back in business

Probably the lesson taught last November has already evaporated from the overheated brains of assorted Gazan "activists": slowly b...

Watcher’s Council Nominations…From My Cold Dead Hands Edition

Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Google Honors Cesar Chavez on Easter Rhymes With Right – I Really Didn’t Want To Write About The Oba...

Justin Bieber: battery or spittery?

The intricacies of that language will, probably, remain sealed forever for me. This is the only conclusion I made from this article : Justin...

Hollywood converts and other UFOs

Judaism does get its share of the soul-searching celebs, and at least two interesting cases came to our attention lately, thanks to ToI: Ash...

Happy Easter!

To all out Christian friends. And some newly discovered truths to go with that greeting:

Germany attacks Poland - again. This time it's on moral grounds.

The Algemeiner has an article on a new German series on World War II. This one's different, though. It's about Poland during that p...

Pregnant Kim Kardashian is still being slightly annoying

A few (two or three) years ago I was living in a bliss of not knowing who exactly Kim Kardashian is - believe it or not. This state of nirva...

Confirmation of PA control of foreign journalists.

There appears to be confirmation of the Palestinian Authority's censorship"guidance" of foreign journalists I reported previou...

West Bank reporting by foreign journalists to require PA permission.

Did anyone just say "freedom of speech" and/or "freedom of the press" and/or "freedom of thought"? And if not ...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 3  votes! Joshuapundit – Narcissus In The Promised Land Redux: Obama Learns You Can’t Fool All Of The P...

Slighted by Palestinian Authority

That's me. Personally. And here is why : Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh from Bethlehem was sentenced on Thursday to one year in...

When a worm

happens upon a dead lion's body, the worm could consider itself a victor. In a way. But even a worm wouldn't dance on the dead body,...

Faulkner’s Nobel medal for sale, and I know why

Because of that annoying Elder's habit to connect the dots, here is the news : For collectors Faulkner’s 1949 medal, his Nobel diploma a...

Apartheid Palestine?

Anne Bayefsky speaks at Human Rights Council, Geneva, March 18, 2013:

The map Obama didn't see

PMW turns up some amazing stories quite regularly. This one is no exception. After the UN vote in November 2012, the PA built a monument in...

Watcher’s Council Nominations – ‘Till Death Or Lawyers Do Us Part Edition

Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Islamic Dogs of War – The Use Of Gang-Rape to Subjugate Infidels and Those that Resist The Political ...

Russia's new Middle eastern energy game

is the headline on this article from The Commentator. Written by Peter C. Glove & Michael J. Economides, it argues that many observers ...

Woman with tadpoles in her mouth

Believe it or not : The airport said the woman, a foreigner, was found to have a bottle of liquid in her luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun Interna...

Passover - another interpretation

Hat tip: Y.Z.

RIP, dear Jams

I still hope against all hope that this is a bad joke. It is difficult to imagine a world where one can't stop by Jams' (Shaun Downe...

On questioning professor Joseph Levine

I wasn't raised in a particularly religious Jewish environment, but these days when I see an article titled like On Questioning the Jewi...

Happy Passover - Hag Pesach sameach!

And more on the subject, since we are at it:

Bashar al-Assad assassinated?

More details by Joshuapundit . Update : Looks like this was just a bit of wishful thinking. Apparently the famous Iranian quail sent to him ...

George (The Spiv) Galloway Banned from University of Chester

To make it clear: I am not an ardent supporter of curbing the right to free speech, even in cases like this one. However, the story is wort...

"Shattered Arab dreams": for them, my heart bleeds (British irony)

"Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volati...

The Council Has Spoken!

Council Winners *First place with 2 2/3 votes! The Noisy  Room – Marxism in Education – The Infiltration of Our School Systems by the Com...

Should the German NDP be banned?

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely conflicted over this issue. The far right and the far left are equally abhorrent to me. I...

And about time too!

"The Obama administration refused to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for...

Israel is undemocratic...or not, as the case may be.

Whether he means to or not, Prof. Levine (philosophy at the U of Massachusetts) manages to employ antisemitic tropes in his argument that th...

On procrastination

The problem is obviously ancient, dating from the decision of that caveman to postpone taking out the garbage for tomorrow or, at least, for...

Michael White: The Livingstone Formulation? Nope, the Seumas Milne's formula.

This is a (rare) case when I have to disagree with a co-blogger, and a distinguished one at that - professor Brian Goldfarb. And, by proxy, ...