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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The Horowitz Corner

In an exclusive interview, David Horowitz, editor-in-chief of Frontpagemag.com, discusses his new book, Indoctrination U, and his take on the key developments in the terror war. }} more…

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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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Summer Picks

Reading:
BOOMSDAY by Christopher Buckley

A laugh out loud political satire revolving around the intergenerational strife between baby boomers and those under thirty.

Ironic, seeing as how the boomers invented the concept of generation gap 40 years ago.

Music:
For any baby boomers out there I recommend giving a listen to the White Stripes, and Amy Winehouse.

Jack White has a perfect voice for Rock and Roll along the order of Robert Plant, Geddy Lee and Steven Tyler.

Winehouse, a British chanteuse exudes an alluring sultriness. I’m also a sucker for those tattoos and that trampy look.

You can enjoy these artists and show the kids that you’re not completely out of touch at the same time.

Maybe the kids will see that much of popular music of today is a rehash of what came before.

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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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Good News! Only 20% of those Surveyed Continue to Blame Jews for the Death of Jesus

ADL Survey In Six European Countries Finds Anti-Semitic Attitudes Up: Most Believe Jews More Loyal to Israel Than Home Country

Jerusalem, Israel, July 17, 2007 …In a companion survey to one fielded several months ago in five European countries, a new survey of an additional six countries shows similarly that millions of Europeans believe the classical anti-Semitic canards that have persistently pursued Jews through the centuries.

The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one third believe that they have too much power in business and finance.

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Book Review: The World’s Oldest Obsession

From Azure and cross-posted with author’s permission:

The World’s Oldest Obsession

• Reviewed by Alexander H. Joffe
• by Walter Laquer
• The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
• Oxford University Press, 2006, 228 pages. 

Few scholars have lived as enmeshed in their subjects as has Walter Laqueur, an estimable voice on the history of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, he left for Mandatory Palestine in 1938. As a journalist, he covered the Middle East and the creation of the State of Israel. He left to study in England, where he eventually became director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library, the premier research center on anti-Semitism, and was a founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary History. Laqueur also taught at Brandeis and Georgetown universities, and was chairman of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Now in his ninth decade, he continues to produce books and essays on a regular basis. His present volume, The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism, forces us to confront the problem at hand starkly.

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You Know Those Hindus Make Me Want To…SHOUT!!!

It seems that in the course of editorializing and commenting on a couple of news items, we here at TMQ2 have offended some people.

Specifically, Bob McCarthy (hotoffthepress) who was offended by our supporting the right of a Hindu cleric to perform the invocation at the US Senate, and Will Barrett, who took umbrage in what we had to say about the Pope’s hat, or Papal Tiara.

I would like to make amends to these guys by a peace offering in the form a joke:

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Videos: The War On Britains Jews, Parts 1-6

From Britain’s UK Channel 4, in six parts, Richard Littlejohn investigates the rise of anti-semitism in modern Britain, arguing that it is no longer exclusive to the extreme right. Traveling across Britain, Littlejohn meets victims of prejudice, visits a desecrated graveyard and joins a police patrol in an area of Manchester where Jews struggle to attend the local synagogue for fear of attack.

Part 1

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Larry King Video: What’s Paris Hilton’s favorite Bible passage?

Um…like WHAT-everrrr…

Immediately after stating she read the Bible in the slammer, Larry asked Paris what her favorite Bible passage was…

Is Paris Catholic? I like the way Larry asked her about attending Mass. I think a lot of Jews don’t realize the word “Mass” is a Catholic term, used mostly by them and derivatives and spin-offs from the Catholic Church, like the Lutherans. Protestants don’t go to “Mass.” They go to church services or Bible study, or if Holy Rollers, they gather at the river. And if they don’t go to any of these, they go straight to H-E-double-L.

Now that Paris has found Haysuss, how do we most accurately describe her? Is she a Bible thumper? An Evangelical? A Christian Fundamentalist? A Jesus freak? And when she smokes crack, do we say she’s smokin’ the Rock of Ages? And what about her Bong Hits 4 Jesus?

I do know there’s a 1-thru-10 rating system to denote how holy a Christian is, with 10 being holier than Jimmy Carter on Easter Sunday at Arafat’s house, and 1 being somewhere between Billy Carter and Rosie O’Donnell. For example, anyone with at least four teeth and a Bible qualifies as a 10.

Now I’m feeling the spirit, channeling it, just like John Edwards*. Hallelujah! Come on folks, sing along now: Shall we gather at the ri-ver, the beautiful, the beautiful ri-ver…

Praise Jesus! Amen brotha. Gawd did it! He will heeeeal yew. Evil demons come OUT!

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* He’s the trial lawyer who pretended in court to channel the spirit of a handicapped fetus in front of illiterate jurors to scam tens of millions of dollars off of innocent doctors. According to The New York Times, Edwards told one jury: “She speaks to you through me … And I have to tell you right now — I didn’t plan to talk about this — right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She’s inside me, and she’s talking to you.”

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Did We Come from Apes? Ask the Zoo Rabbi

Is Darwin Kosher?

Last month, 600 people turned out for a Yeshiva University fund-raiser at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The museum, which stands as a monument to science, houses one of the world’s most extensive collections of dinosaur fossils. The dinner itself was held in the dramatic Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, which features a massive blue whale that hangs suspended in midair; intricate dioramas modeled on the flora and fauna of the planet’s oceans line the walls. Everything about the affair suggested that Yeshiva, the intellectual epicenter of Modern Orthodox Jewish life in America, is very much at ease in the world of secular science.

This impression is confirmed by Carl Feit, who is an ordained rabbi and Talmudic scholar as well as chairman of the science division at Yeshiva College. Prof. Feit says that in nearly a quarter-century of teaching introductory biology, he has always taught evolution–supported by traditional Jewish source material–and that “there has never been a blip on the radar here.” His assessment echoes the official line of the Modern Orthodox rabbinical association, which states that evolution is entirely consistent with Judaism. }} more…

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Another Flaming Catholic Jew-Hater: Time to scrutinize ‘Cordaid’

In 2001 the Dutch Roman Catholic NGO Cordaid was indirectly involved in financing the largest anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hate campaign of the twenty-first century, the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa. This supposedly humanitarian, but heavily politicized pressure group is subsidized by its country’s government and recently again undertook an anti-Israeli campaign.

On 8 June, before the visit of Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen to the Middle East, 52 prominent Dutch citizens, mainly well-known pro-Palestinians, issued, through paid advertisements in the Dutch press, an astutely slanted pro-Palestinian public statement calling on the Dutch government to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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British Jewry in Crisis

The call for a boycott against Israeli academicians by the British University and College Union (UCU) reflects the depths to which vicious hostility against Israel has become ingrained in British society.

It is an abomination for “educators,” purporting to be liberal or progressive, to sanction a dastardly resolution boycotting academics from the only democratic state in the Middle East. It is especially bizarre because Israeli universities are pluralistic with no limitations on the enrolment of Israeli Arab students. In stark contrast, many Palestinian Arab “universities” promote a cult of death, suicide bombers and the destruction of the Jewish state.

It may be politically incorrect to describe such boycotts as anti-Semitic rather than anti-Israel. But the time has now surely come to call a spade a spade.

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Abraham’s Grandson, Let My People Go…Visit Him

Hasids Plan Second Trip to Nablus Tomb, Despite IDF Warning

by Nadav Shragai, Haaretz

A group of Bratslav Hasids attempted to reach the Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus on Saturday night, and have announced their intention to do so again Monday night.

The Israel Defense Forces has prohibited Jews from entering the area of the tomb

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