Monday, July 26, 2010

1. In Case Anyone Cares - The truth about the Gaza jihad flotilla - Jihad Watch

2. Probably Not - the fetish for flotillas goes on, including a close friend of the President:

• Obama's friend raising funds for new Gaza aid ship - Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel News
• UN rights body names team to probe Gaza flotilla raid - Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel News
• The audacity of jihad: US ship named after Obama's book set to break Israel's self-defense blockade of Gaza - Jihad Watch
• Clueless in Gaza

3. And The Bias Does Not Stop There - Commentary » Blog Archive » Blatant Bias

4. Quick Update From Professor Barry Rubin - RubinReports: Briefing in a Minute: The Middle East Right Now

5. Rural Quebec And The Jews - The Jewish rural experience

6. Summer Camps - interesting - What your enjoyment of sleep-away camp, or lack of same, says about your character. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

7. Good Bang For The Buck - so to speak - JPost.com BlogCentral Rosner's Domain Israel, an ally at bargain price

8. Goings-On in Jordan - Jordan, Dr. Peace and Mr. Apartheid

9. And Egypt - The Cop on the Banks of the Nile - WSJ.com

10. Oliver Stone Hits Bottom, Keeps Digging - Ron Radosh » Oliver Stone Reaches a New Low: Anti-Semitism

(Nice guy to pal around with, speaks volumes about who Stone is)

(....as does this)

11. More Criticism of Israel - Another round of misdirected Israel-bashing | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

12. The Conversion Issue - So even when there is relative quiet in Israel - "relative" being the key word, there is controversy. The issue, which I hope I am stating correctly, is that there is a new piece of legislation that purports to give authority over conversions to Judaism to the Israeli chief rabbinate, which is an Orthodox Jewish body. Presently, no such authority exists. The issue is that there are large numbers of Jews in Israel who were able to emigrate due to the Law of Return - but many of these Jews may not meet the requirements of the Orthodox rabbinate. Further, there would be no recognition of Reform or Conservative conversions, which are the most prevalent in North America. The matter has been deferred to the fall, but the issues remain. Here are some links:

• The Rabbinate Is the Problem – Forward.com,
• J.J. Goldberg On Conversion, Alienating Israel’s Friends – Forward.com
• Pajamas Media » Israel Asks, ‘Who Is a Jew?’

13. Shame! Indeed! - Shame on the entertainers boycotting Israel this summer. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

14. Another Amazing Story About The Shoah - A new book by Christopher Browning deals with the issue of survivor testimony - Historic Shift. I have read one of Browning's earlier works - "Ordinary Men" - which is extremely interesting.

15. Manipulating History - Institute for Global Jewish Affairs – Global Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, Jewish Studies

16. Antisemitism On The Right - Pajamas Media » Leftists Aren’t the Only Perpetrators of Anti-Semitism in the World

17. Something You Don't See Every Day - Standing up, and out, for Israel

18. I Found This Funny - from Iran - much better than hate.......