Departing from her native Yiddish to convey the sentiment in the correct idiom, one mother cheered her daughter Breindl in English, setting off the commotion among agitated media personalities. Williamsburg, November 9 – Local and national media commentators descended on ...
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Feed SubscriptionRapist Iran Prison Guard Hopes For Promotion To Modesty Police
“I won’t be raping those girls who are asking for it, at least not out in the middle of the street where everyone can see, but it’s the same kind of power trip.” Evin Prison, October 28 – An employee ...
Read More »Ben & Jerry’s To Change Name To Arabic To Shield Brand From Antsemitism Charges
US media fail to report official, widespread anti-Jewish messaging in the textbooks, popular culture, political rhetoric, and religious environments throughout the Arab and Islamic worlds. Burlington, October 27 – An ice cream manufacturing company that got into hot water over demands that ...
Read More »Making Me Share A Room With My Sister Is Settler Colonialism
By Hallel Schusterman, age 16 Your parenting violates the Fourth Geneva Convention. There, I’ve said it. This is my room. It’s been my room as long as I can remember. I forged my identity in this room, became who I ...
Read More »Disciplinary Measures Of Ethiopian-Immigrant Parents Disproportionately Affect Ethiopian Children
The couple, who only became parents after moving to Israel, never exercised such discriminatory discipline toward their children when they still lived in Ethiopia. Mevasseret Tziyon, October 25 – Civil rights and social equality organizations condemned a local couple today ...
Read More »1947: Arab Man Loves Palestine So Much He Abandons It To Let Invading Arab Armies Take Over
His bond with the land is so strong, he would rather skedaddle to Beirut or Damascus than stand and fight the Jews for possession. Haifa, October 24, 1947 – An Arab resident of this mixed-ethnicity city in the north of ...
Read More »Gov’t To Address Budget Shortfall By Putting On Greatest Talent Show This Town has Ever Seen
“It’s just the idea to both save our budget and turn this town around!” Jerusalem, October 21 – Fiscal constraints ahead of a vote on the main spending bill in Israel’s parliament have led several prominent ministers to propose an ...
Read More »Satan Extra-Pleased With Fundamentalists Who Believe They’re Doing Good
He counts it as one of his supreme achievements. Brooklyn, October 20 – Infernal sources disclosed today that the Prince of Darkness has admitted to feeling more chuffed than he had expected at the launch of his Evil Initiative thousands ...
Read More »Iran Forfeits Quidditch World Cup Rather Than Face Israel
Outside a core of staunch regime loyalists and among Iran’s Shiite supporters in the Middle East, fan and official reactions have uniformly criticized Iran’s decision. Dubai, October 19 – Enthusiasts of the wizarding world’s most popular sport burst into a ...
Read More »J Street Finds No Difference In Social Media Engagement During Internet Outage
The incident recalls an episode in 2016 when a J Street post on Facebook broke the two-digit mark on Likes, prompting Director Jeremy Ben-Ami to create a special award for the dozen staffers of the organization who had used their ...
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