“You cannot seriously tell me people entertain this as a genuine, operative political concept.” Ankara, July 27 – Heads of numerous Arab and Muslim countries spent time Wednesday finding comic relief in an online encyclopedia entry that discusses the notion ...
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Feed SubscriptionRabbi Fills In At DNC After Khamenei Declines To Offer Benediction
Khamenei declined to offer a reason for his eleventh-hour cancellation. Philadelphia, July 26 – Viewers, attendees, and participants in the first evening of the Democratic National Convention experienced some moments of disorder and unpredictability, but organizers confessed that the smooth ...
Read More »Amid Software Failure, Haaretz Must Manually Generate Anti-Israel Headlines
“All I can say is we’re working on it,” said a worried Amos Schocken, the paper’s publisher. Tel Aviv, July 25 – Two days into a malfunction of one of the publication’s most intensively-used applications, the organization’s staff has been ...
Read More »Teacher No Longer Accepting ‘The Occupation’ As Homework Excuse
“We cannot allow this man to continue to poison the minds of our children.” Nablus, July 25 – Parents and students at the Yasser Arafat Primary School expressed outrage today that a fourth-grade teacher at the institution now refuses to excuse missed ...
Read More »Let’s Breach Jerusalem’s Walls So Entitled Whiners Have To Fast Thousands Of Years From Now
By Nevuzaradan, Babylonian General Men, we’re on the brink of a breakthrough. One final push today and we can breach the fortifications of Jerusalem. These Jews have given Emperor Nebuchadnezzar more than a handful’s worth of trouble for years already, ...
Read More »Lacking Jews To Blame, Residents Of Exoplanet Forced To Solve Own Problems
“We’re not blessed the way Earth is with a minority that can be conveniently and universally blamed for all ills.” Kepler-62f, Lyra constellation, July 24 – The inhabitants of this rocky spheroid in orbit around the star Kepler-62 have been ...
Read More »Free Meretz Membership To Anyone Alive Last Time They Had Power
“I see this drive as a metaphor for our situation and our aspirations.” Tel Aviv, July 20 – Leaders of the left-wing party Meretz launched a new membership drive today to bolster the movement’s stagnant rolls, promising to exempt from ...
Read More »Jews Of Iran Free To Hold Any Political Views The Government OKs
“The openness of Iranian authorities to free Jewish political and religious expression far outstrips that of neighboring Jordan, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.” Meshed, Islamic Republic of Iran, July 19 – The approximately twenty thousand Jews living in Iran today enjoy religious ...
Read More »Tenth Annual Misunderstanding Judaism Conference Kicks Off
Several large Christian congregations sent delegations to the fair to reinforce the myths their communities have always assumed to be true. New York, NY – The Jacob Javits Convention Center was filled to capacity on Sunday as thousands of non-Jews ...
Read More »Angels Don’t Know If They Can Trust Abraham’s Kashrut
“We can probably rely on him just this once without inquiring whether everything is Badatz.” Oaks of Mamre – The trio of divine messengers tasked with engaging Abraham’s hospitality and informing him he will father a son with his wife ...
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