The Washington Post reported today on a controversial circumstance regarding an Orthodox Jewish boy on life support. The boy, Motl Brody, has an aggressive brain tumor and currently has no brain activity—he cannot breathe on his own. His family's lawyers, however, sued to contend that...
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)? For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom B’nei Israel modern Orthodox Synagogue in Chicago. His father, Benjamin Emanuel, was born in Jerusalem and was active in the...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jll5baCAaQU] Under a section called "The Age of Obama," Ynet has two interesting pieces. One contains a reassuring statement from an adviser to Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (Obama's not yet official White House chief of staff), and the other quotes Israelis advising patience regarding Obama's work on...
[slideshare id=724345&doc=electiondaypix-1225911790283203-8&w=425] In case you were just unfreezed from a cryogenic state, Senator Barack Obama was elected president yesterday. He will be America's first African-American president. I took the (admittedly very amateur) above photos/videos between midnight and 2:30 am this morning in front of the White...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Even I'm Verklempt"][/caption] I have been absent from this blog for a few weeks, after a few half-hearted attempts at an entry on rumors about whether Sarah Palin might have some recent Jewish ancestors, and one about yet another stupid comment by...
[caption id="attachment_1321" align="alignright" width="162" caption="RED new york"][/caption] A group of journalism graduate students at Columbia University put together this interesting study of how Brooklyn is politically divided ("Bleeding Red for McCain") on their original online news publication, Brooklyn Ink. Using public records of campaign donations, they...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpSjDKYlk0] Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics? It can be a dangerous game, it's true, especially when sportswriters suddenly think they're foreign policy experts. But more often...
More than 200 professors of Jewish studies have joined to form the latest Jews-for-Obama group, reports The Jewish Daily Forward. But the Republican Jewish Coalition poo-poos the new alliance's potential impact. Jews won't listen to eggheads, reasons RJC executive director Matt Brooks. "[T]hese elites in...
Over at their website, The Economist is conducting a rather interesting experiment. For the US presidential election, they've mapped out an electoral college for the entire world. As they write in the explication: The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of...
Stop bitching and pick up a knife. Activists, upset with the kosher meat industry, have taken matters into their own hands. [JTA] A profile of Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz. [Forward] Alan M. Dershowitz is endorsing Obama for President. [JPost Blogs] A US soldier was beat up. That soldier...