June 6, 2006

The Gothamist reports that New York City is officially being renamed Jew York according to an official document from the Supreme Court of the State of New York, I mean Jew York. The Gothamist asks, “What would Alvy Singer think?” referring to a paranoid nebbishy New Yorker in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
And for kicks, here’s [...]

June 5, 2006

For those who have been following The Apprentice, Sean and Tammy had been shown flirting in several episodes througout the season. In tonight’s finale, Donald Trump kept telling Tammy that Sean is in love with her. In the last minutes of the show, Mr. Trump asks Sean if he is going to marry Tammy and [...]

The Bush Administration is tightening standards for more than 50 million low-income recipients of Medicaid, requiring them to prove they are United States citizens. In the past, loose standards were set up where recipients could prove US citizenship without having to back up the claim.
The new requirements would go into effect July 1, 2006 and [...]

June 4, 2006

Growing up as child in the seventies, soccer was fad. Pele was the biggest soccer star in the world and the New York Cosmos had just signed him to a lucrative contract. If people do not remember the New York Cosmos, they played in the North American Soccer League (NASL), a fledgling soccer league that [...]

June 2, 2006

With the World Cup beginning June 9, Germany is beefing up security not to counter terrorism, specifically, but to control the rowdy English soccer fans. Whether England wins or loses a match, the stereotypical drunken hooligan behaves just the same.England is fanatical about soccer -”football” to them- and England, as a geographical nation, revolves around [...]

June 1, 2006

Access Hollywood reports that the classic DC comic heroine, Batwoman, who was killed off in the original series, is being resurrected as a 21st century lesbian, who prefers Catwoman to Batman. Access Hollywood reports:
DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of [...]

May 31, 2006

Barry Bonds will break Hank Aaron’s career home-run record of 755.  Unless there is some unforeseeable career-ending injury or the government decides to bar him from baseball for steroid-use, Barry Bond’s will become the single-season homerun leader of all-time and the career homerun leader of all-time.  Even if Barry has to walk up to the [...]

According to a Jewish week article, the FBI is concerned about Hezbollah sleeper cells in the United States. Recently, 12 Hezbollah supporters were found operating in the New York area. The Jewish Week reports:
The New York Post reported Monday that authorities had detected increased activity of late by Hezbollah agents, including more [...]

May 30, 2006

Last week, I wrote about the accusations that the Iranian government was proposing a law that would require Jews and Christians to wear special colored armbands reminiscent of the Holocaust.  Since the early reports, media outlets researched the story further and found out that the accusations where false.  Actual government documents show that the proposal [...]

May 25, 2006

Anne Bayefsky of the National Review Online wrote a great article about the UN’s failed reforms.  She exposes an international institution that is bureaucratically bloated, corrupt, and ruled by competing factions that mirror politics outside the UN.  In essence, the UN is ineffective. 
Here are some key-points:
The new Human Rights Council, which replaces the discredited Human [...]

President Mahmoud Abbas has given Hamas 10 days to recognize Israel.  If Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and a two-state solution that has Israel and a future Palestine living in peace, he would seek a referendum.
This comes after Ehud Olmert told the Palestinian government and the world that it would not wait [...]

May 24, 2006

Yesterday, in a White House news conference President Bush assured Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the United States would defend Israel if it were ever attacked by Iran.  While I do not always agree with President Bush, when it comes to Israel I must stand up and applaud him. 
No other world leader has stood up [...]

May 23, 2006

When the rest of the world stood in opposition to the United States as the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States.  At the time, based on international intelligence, he believed that Saddam Hussein harbored WMDs, and had the courage to stand alone in a Euro-centric [...]

When you hear of the Dixie Chicks these days, you don’t think about their once soothing country music that soared up the charts and sold millions of albums.  Since 2003, when they made anti-Bush remarks at a concert in London –“Just so you know, we are ashamed the President is from Texas”- there has been [...]

May 21, 2006

After The National Post, a Canadian newspaper, reported that the Iranian government was pushing a law through it’s parliment that would require Jews to wear yellow arm bands and Christians to wear red arm bands, Iranian government officials are denying the reports.
However much Iranian officials deny the reports, there is a proposed bill on the [...]

On Saturday, the Palestinian intelligence leader, General Tareq Abu Rajab, was critically wounded by a bombing at the PA headquarters in Gaza City. Israeli medics rushed him to a hospital in Tel Aviv. Mr. Rajab is a senior member of the Fatah party and a close ally of Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.In recent weeks, the [...]

May 18, 2006

Before you think I’m crazy, just hear me out. You’re thinking who in their right mind would give arms to a two-bit government that for decades has sought the destruction of one of our closest allies, Israel, through terrorist means? Isn’t Fatah the party of former PA president Yassar Arafat, a man whose ineffective and [...]

May 17, 2006

Since his runner-up finish on American Idol and his subsequent rise to prepubescent stardom, he has been haunted by the “gay” question. In public, he has always denied that he is gay, but now it seems that men are coming forward to tell their tales about trysts with Clay in Quality Inns and on the [...]

Sir Paul McCartney is splitting from his second wife, Heath Mills McCartney, after just four years of marriage. I hate to say this, but I told you so, Paul. When men marry woman almost half their age, I always give it a five-year window before troubles start. In this case, it was four years.
Look, Paul [...]

May 15, 2006

David Framowitz, 48, has come forward to accuse Rabbi Yehuda (Yudi) Kolko of sexual abuse that took place over 25 years ago. Rabbi Kolko is a prominent Rabbi in the Ultra-Orthodox community of Borough Park where he has been teaching young Jewish boys for over 30 years. Many more men between the ages of 19 [...]