Babi Yar, Ukraine, December 5 – Ecology-oriented parties across the Continent are expressing regret that the Nazis and their collaborators did not display more efficient use of precious space by finding more Jews to fill many partially-empty mass graves, and ...
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Feed SubscriptionYnet To Limit Anti-Religious Articles To 8 Per Week
Tel Aviv, December 3 – The popular internet news site Ynet announced today that in the coming election season it would cap the number of articles bashing religion and religious people at a little more than one per day. Prime ...
Read More »Is It Time To Take Down The Sukkah Yet?
By Indy Saisev Judaism is usually pretty specific about when to do what. All you have to do is look in a book or two and you have your answer. So I’m finding it both troubling and confusing that no ...
Read More »Netanyahu Denies Having Scruples
Corruption at the top has long been a tradition in Israeli politics. Jerusalem, December 2 – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded harshly today to accusations he had developed a conscience or morals, following remarks by fellow politicians insinuating that ...
Read More »Palestinian Rock-Thrower Suspended For Steroid Use
In the last six months a total of eleven youths have received suspensions and twenty-nine more were placed on probation, numbers that represent a threefold increase since 2005. Ramallah, December 1 – A Palestinian youth who regularly hurls rocks and ...
Read More »Mubarak Case Collapses, Killing 1
Cairo, November 30 – The magistrate overseeing former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial on murder and corruption charges decided to drop the case yesterday, causing the case to collapse, kill at least one person, and injure an unknown number. Mubarak, now ...
Read More »Cricket Judge Death Shocks Israel With Existence Of Cricket
Ashdod, November 29 – An umpire at an informal game of cricket died this afternoon after being struck by the ball, sending shock waves throughout the country as people discovered the sport exists. The 58-year-old man was hit in the chest ...
Read More »Ferguson Protesters Puzzled By Security Council Inaction
Ferguson, Missouri, November 28 – African-American residents of this town and their supporters from around the nation have yet to hear from either the United Nations Security Council or its Human Rights Council, disappointing many who expected at least one ...
Read More »New Haredi Trend Sees Men Recircumcise Selves As Adults
Bnei Brak, November 27 – Growing stringency in the practice of Jewish law among the ultra-orthodox has a new generation of adherents arranging to undergo circumcision a second – and sometimes third – time after they reach adulthood, observers report. ...
Read More »All Palestinians Wish To Become Martyrs – Well, Those Not In Office
By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President I have said it before and I shall say it again: all Palestinians desire to become holy martyrs in the struggle for our land. Well, all Palestinians except us, the ones in power. Let’s be honest here. ...
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