Video: ABC em Yidish – Alef Bet in Yidish

Music TV Clip in Yidish with hebrew subtitles – clip musical com legendas em hebraico – Comunidade na TV

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Gene Genie

Goy to the World!

I just finished reading an advance copy of a book due out in October called Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Entine.

Although the potential for controversy certainly exists with a book so titled, the author, in my opinion, attempts to be fair and objective on the subject. He presents viewpoints of scientists and pseudo scientists, and makes sure to qualify the latter.

The subject matter concerns itself primarily with one of Abraham’s children, the Jewish one.

I know what you’re thinking. This is supposed to be a blog answering the Muslim question. What’s all this about Jews again?

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The New Anti-Semitism

From WaPo:

By Denis MacShane

Hatred of Jews has reached new heights in Europe and many points south and east of the old continent. Last year I chaired a blue-ribbon committee of British parliamentarians, including former ministers and a party leader, that examined the problem of anti-Semitism in Britain. None of us are Jewish or active in the unending debates on the Israeli-Palestinian question.

Our report showed a pattern of fear among a small number of British citizens — there are around 300,000 Jews in Britain, of whom about a third are observant — that is not acceptable in a modern democracy. Synagogues attacked. Jewish schoolboys jostled on public transportation. Rabbis punched and knifed. British Jews feeling compelled to raise millions to provide private security for their weddings and community events. On campuses, militant anti-Jewish students fueled by Islamist or far-left hate seeking to prevent Jewish students from expressing their opinions.

More worrisome was what we described as anti-Jewish discourse, a mood and tone whenever Jews are discussed, whether in the media, at universities, among the liberal media elite or at dinner parties of modish London. To express any support for Israel or any feeling for the right of a Jewish state to exist produces denunciation, even contempt.

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A Muslim Zionist Hero: Salah Choudhury

From Jewish Week:

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is not a household name in our community. But it should be.

Choudhury, 42, is a journalist in Bangladesh whose support for Israel and criticism of Islamic fundamentalists has led to his imprisonment and torture at home. His trial for sedition, blasphemy and treason — he is accused of being a Zionist spy — resumes this month and he faces a possible death sentence.

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Noah Feldman’s Complaint

From The Jewish Week:

We found ourselves in the middle of a dispute this week between the Orthodox Union and The New York Times over the veracity of Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman’s suggestion that he and his Korean-American girlfriend (now wife) were purposefully left out of a yeshiva high school alumni newsletter photo some years ago.

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Double the Standards, Double the Fun!

Judeosphere’s List of Top Ten Double Standards On the Middle East™

(1) Christian fundamentalists who support Israel are religious fanatics; Jewish fundamentalists who oppose Zionism are individuals of deep religious and moral conviction. }} more…

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Sudan: Jews Behind Genocide in Darfur

The Jews did it…yeah…that’s the ticket…

Prairie Pundit via Ynet News:

Sudan’s defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused “24 Jewish organizations” of “fueling the conflict in Darfur” last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.

Hussein was interviewed during an official state-visit to the Saudi kingdom last week.

A journalist from Saudi Arabia’s Okaz newspaper asked Hussein: “Some people are talking about the penetration of Jewish organizations in Darfur and that there is no conflict there?”

If Muslims didn’t have the ability to blame others for their own wicked behavior, what would they do?

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The Great Challenge Facing Jews in America

Their Success is the Problem

by Abraham H. Foxman

Yair Sheleg in “The Dilemma of American Jews” (Haaretz, July 18) speaks to critical issues facing the American Jewish community but gets them wrong.

As has been said many times, the great challenge facing Jews in America is maintaining Jewish identity. Sheleg agrees with this but the context in which he presents the subject is out of whack and reflects an outdated model.

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12 Oysters for Tu B’Av

Tu B’Av – Wikipedia

By Ronit Vered

Almost every type of food, at one time or another, in one culture or another, has been considered an aphrodisiac. In the 20th century, scientists discounted the theory that a specific food could accelerate the blood flow to the genitals and stimulate a genuine physical reaction. Scientific explanations aside, there’s still the psychological effect. Food that is labeled as passion-arousing often really does the trick, like a placebo. The reasons for the inclusion of a certain food in the historical list were many. The resemblance to human genitalia of the phallic carrot or the fig’s juicy sweetness ignited the imagination. Things such as chicken eggs, known for their vitality and healing properties, were thought to also have the power to improve erections. Raw, bloody meat became a symbol for raw, sexual passion, while rare and precious foods such as caviar created an aura of luxury, wealth and power, reliable elements of foreplay. A taste of the sexiest dishes Tel Aviv’s restaurants have to offer.

Oysters are the perfect example of a food whose shape recalls female genitalia:

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