By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler [caption id="attachment_1466" align="alignnone" width="330" caption="Obama's site"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1467" align="alignnone" width="336" caption="Bibi's site"][/caption] Not really. But check out the above screenshots of Obama and Netanyahu's respective websites. See?!! Ynet caught it as well, and asked some Netanyahu people about it: "We view the comparison as a compliment,"...
[caption id="attachment_1453" align="alignleft" width="166" caption=""Nir Barkat. Mayor.""][/caption] By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler We had a preview of Jerusalem's mayoral election earlier this week. Now we can declare software entrepreneur Nir Barkat the winner. Barkat embodies a bit of a contradiction, doesn't he? "The great hope of the city's secular Jewish...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler The Washington Post has the story, in honor of Veteran's Day. A teaser: Being bar mitzvahed circled the old sergeant back to the heritage he concealed from his Japanese captors more than six decades ago after seeing other Jews beaten by guards who sympathized...
By Nonna Gorilovskaya John Key, son of a Jewish refugee, was elected the next prime minister of Middle-earth New Zealand, the country best known for its kiwi fruit and as the gorgeous backdrop for the Lord of the Rings movies. Ruth Lazar, Key's mother, escaped Austria in...
by David Paul Kuhn Al Franken leans over the scattered papers atop his desk. He puffs out his pasty cheeks. His round brown glasses seem slightly too small for his face. His brown eyebrows arch up and he grins like Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Batman. “I...
[caption id="attachment_1386" align="alignright" width="261" caption="In Jerusalem: a "smoking" election?"][/caption] In a haze of post-Obamania deflation this week, I turned for a political fix to Jerusalem and the hotly contested mayoral election taking place tomorrow. For a city beset by race wars, poverty and a middle class...
Everyone is talking about Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to president-elect Barack Obama. The letter, according to Iranian news agency ISNA, congratulates Obama and expresses Ahmadinejad's wish for real change in US policy towards Iran. Every major newspaper has an emphatic headline for Ahmadinejad's letter,...
The New York Times claims Lake can have the job if he wants it. While it's not clear that he does, he's certainly in the running for something important. After all, Bill Clinton's former National Security Advisor backed Obama from the start, as Robert Greenberger...
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...