By Roger Cohen, New York Times Columnist London, April 10 – My various columns over the years in which I showcase my upper-middle-class, translatlantic, more-educated-than-thou, and secular-but-culturally-Jewish-as-long-as-it-fits-my-politics-and-lifestyle outlook may have conveyed the wrong idea to many readers as to my ...
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Feed SubscriptionJVP, If Not Now To Cut Out Middle Man, Kill Israelis Directly
“We will now be recruiting for trips to counter the poison that Birthright dispenses: trips during which, instead of simply yelling at Zionists for not caring about Palestinians, our participants kill Birthright participants.” New York, April 9 – Two American ...
Read More »Use Of Chametz In Pads Prompts Rabbis: No Menstruating On Passover
“If a woman is committed as she should be to upholding the Torah and the sanctity of her people, she should be capable of willing her body to comply with Halacha.” Bnei Brak, April 8 – Jewish women must avoid ...
Read More »Egyptian Professor Causes Furor With Claim Jews Not Behind Everything
Calls to sack the professor came from figures in and out of the government. Cairo, April 3 – An academic at Cairo University has sparked a tumult in national media and political circles this week following a televised interview in ...
Read More »Political Parties To Outnumber Voters By Next Election
Since 2016 each high school graduate has been assigned a unique new party. Jerusalem, April 4 – Journalists and political analysts predicted today that if the next Israeli government lasts its full four-year term, the number of parties vying for seats in ...
Read More »Study Confirms This The Stupidest Of Times
Many of the important discoveries or developments of that last several hundred years have ended up saving the lives of those who, because of their moronic behavior, would have died, had their boneheaded acts occurred earlier in history. Tel Aviv, ...
Read More »Venezuela Tries Blaming Israel For Rationed Electricity: ‘Just As Plausible As For Gaza’
Both Hamas and the Maduro government have now instituted electricity rationing, amid civil unrest and with a government that blames foreign interests for domestic turmoil. Caracas, April 2 – Officials in the embattled regime of Nicolàs Maduro announced new measures ...
Read More »I Like Sunsets, Walks On The Beach, And Sending Children To Get Shot At Violent Riots
By Yasmin al-Yamani, Gaza Strip Resident Gaza City, April 1 – Thank you for checking out my profile at GazaDate and choosing to get in touch! I’m sure we’ll have lots to talk about once we get past the preliminaries, ...
Read More »Hamas Accidentally Vows Genocide Again
Hamas sympathizers, meanwhile, insisted that the movement does not target civilians with its genocidal rhetoric. Gaza City, March 27 – For the third time this week, the Islamist terrorist group that runs this coastal territory sought to assure the international ...
Read More »Pundits Too Stupid To Know Temple Mount, Not Western Wall, Judaism’s Holiest Site Still Considered Experts
Observers cited the related phenomenon of journalists describing Jerusalem as “holy to three religions” without noting that the importance of the city to Christianity and to Islam derives directly from its centrality to Judaism. Jerusalem, March 28 – Commentators and ...
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