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Iran to Israel: ‘We’ll murderlize ya!”

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:37:09 +0000

Do Iranians really have the expression "blows under the belt"?

ALS sufferer boycotts ALS researchers in Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:24:29 +0000

Under the perverse logic of the Boycott Israel movement, no Israeli institution or achievement is innocent of the stain of “The Occupation.” On a whim, I googled “Israel” and “ALS,” a form of which afflicts Prof. Stephen Hawking. From MDA/ALS Newsmagazine: The Israeli Ministry of Health has given BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics approval to accelerate its [...]

Stephen Hawking boycotts Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:27:31 +0000

Physicist Stephen Hawking has cancelled a planned visit to Israel, and after some confusion it appears he did so in sympathy with a boycott of Israel promoted by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine. Critics of Hawking say that by joining the boycott he has thrown in with anti-Semites, or at the very [...]

Glick vs. Dershowitz

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:19:27 +0000

The "anti-colonialist left" vs. a "noisy claque" of right wingers.

Schwer zu sein ein yid*

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:46:18 +0000

Great moments in Jewish jurisprudence, from 1925: On June 1, 1925, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (268 U.S. 510), the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an Oregon law making public school attendance mandatory. In its ruling, the court upheld the right of private schools to exist [...]

Reform vs. Chabad, Round One

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:32:25 +0000

Does Lubavitch ask too little of the non-Orthodox?

And now Imelda will light 13 candles in honor of her relatives and friends

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:34:35 +0000

Apparently, David Byrne’s new musical about Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos features a lot of audience participation: [U]shers in neon pink jumpsuits, with cunning sequin accents, …herd you into position as David Korins’s modular set is reconfigured again and again. And as the stage and the world turn, you’re expected to keep on dancing. Members of [...]

Daniel Pipes: A few good bombs

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:08:49 +0000

Daniel Pipes finds a silver lining to the Boston Marathon bombings: Perhaps they will spawn the kind of far-right, xenophobic, anti-immigration parties that are lately thriving in Europe! Westerners are indeed waking up to [the threat of radical Islam]. One can get a vivid sense of trends by looking at developments in Europe, which on the [...]

I’m a Jew who went to state school…

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:55:05 +0000

...And I don’t care what you think.

Where the girls aren’t

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:51:48 +0000

All-male versions of popular shows for the observant community