On October 13th, 1941, a bouncing baby boy was born to a couple of Jewish-Hungarian immigrants in Newark, New Jersey named Louis and Belle Simon. Although Jewish, his parents were fairly cosmopolitan,

(Photo: Jeffrey Lewis ) Welcome one and all to a wondrous apparition, provided by magician. The giant doing cartwheels, as well as the statue wearing high heels, will be joining us shortly. Meanwhile,

Zafit Creek, where 10 pre-military prep-school students and applicants drowned in a flood on Thursday Photo: ekeidar CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia Whether you're a total believer in all it represents, or a vehement

"Do tell me more about the politics of Star Wars..." (Photo: Official site ) I was gonna write more of a think-piece on Israel at 70 and what its "Jewish history pageant" at the

(Photo: Alchetron.com) The NFL Draft is in one week. As I have not yet crossed the Rubicon of giving up on football, and as my New York Jets are in a position to finally draft a franchise quarterback,

(Photo: Intel) Read Part 1? Good. And so we came to Wednesday night, at 7:45ish PM Israel time, to the grand ceremony marking 70 years of "There's Cause For Pride!" (the official slogan of the

(Photo: VisitExeter ) Welcome back to the Holyland Update in the new, more digestible format. Today we have a small victory for hope, and a whodunit with a surprise suspect. Further bemused hilarity, from

The Jewish-Arab Choir "Shirana" at the 2016 Israeli-Palestinian Memorial ceremony (Photo: Tatyana Gitilitz) Welcome one and all to the Holyland Update, brought to you in a new, more digestible

The word funk is first recorded in the English language in 1620, four years after the death of William Shakespeare, as meaning "smelling of smoke". The word was derived from the Old French

"Damn you, New Israel Fund!" (Cartoon: Noam Rabinovich ) I wrote a whole post, then it got deleted because of Steemit's dumbass CMS (and my forgetting to periodically ctrl-A, ctrl-S in my frenzied

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Photo: Said Khatib / AFP Hello there! Step away from the fence for your own safety, and find shelter - ok, I lie, ain't no damn shelter in post-modern wars, but I will give you a breakdown of wtf is going

From a declassified daring air-raid and the ensuing mud-fight for credit, through a classic con operation, to a little million-dollar fireworks show – the Weekend Holyland Update (fashionably late once

It's on again, it's off again, it's on again...and it's not. Welcome to the Weekend Holyland Update! Today we have the pre-election smoke-and-mirror dance, succession drama in Israel's sock-puppet regime

Plenty of ink, virtual and corporeal, has been spilled supporting and castigating the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to rock legend Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. However, if the world of

There's a sucker born every minute. Right now they're all over there, in the "Netanyahu is innocent!!!" camp. (Art: Elephants on the Wall©) Step right in, one and all, as I hold the flap of the

Her "Honor", Judge Ronit Poznanski-Katz, no longer presiding. Hello, my countless legions of readers, and welcome to a special installment of the Weekend Holyland Update, in which Israel's judiciary

As The Dude once said: This is a very complicated case… lotta ins, lotta outs. From an offer to buy a verdict for the PM’s wife, to lawmakers taking pride in mobster values, plus an incident that could

TRIGGER WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENCE The following is a revenge fantasy. It is not a call to action. It most definitely is not a blueprint for action. Due to unfortunate life circumstances, my brain does

Welcome, welcome one and all to the Weekend Holyland Update[TM], brought to you courtesy of the Jerusalem Syndrome and other assorted mental disorders. This week we have revolution in the air, state-sanctioned