Most Clicked This Week
- Shalabi’s actions “cruel and coldblooded,” motivated by a “burning hatred and a desire to murder Jews”
- The Dreyfus Affair: Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’
- Ambassador Calls on Security Council to Condemn Tel Aviv Attack
- Our Soldiers Speak, a US-based NGO, "the first, and currently sole organization globally, bringing uniformed IDF soldiers, officers and generals from the field to the campuses and communities throughout the English-speaking world"
- Israel Builders Association warning that in a country where it takes 15 years to approve a single new housing development, “2030 is tomorrow and 2050 is the day after tomorrow”
- Unprecedented event in Erbil features Sunni and Shiite leaders and activists demanding that Baghdad join Abraham Accords; Lapid: Event in Iraq is a ‘source of hope and optimism’
- “US State Department reportedly filed evidence to Congress that the programme, which provides funding to the families of convicted terrorists, continued under a different name”
- Hamas reveals new terror tunnels in underground video report [VIDEO]
Category Archives: Everything else
A special appeal to help David Coleman and his family, close friends in need
We are writing on behalf of a close friend of ours, David Coleman, and his family. As many of you know, David is the Director of Distribution at Jerusalem U, one of the most effective Israel advocacy organizations out there. … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Chai Avraham Moshe, David Coleman, Gila Coleman, Jerusalem U
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Israeli architect-designed glass pedestrian bridge opens in China [VIDEO]
DAILY MAIL China opens world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge by AFP August 21, 2016 The world’s highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened in China’s spectacular Zhangjiajie mountains — the inspiration for American blockbuster Avatar. Some 430 metres (1,400 feet) long and suspended … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Israel & Middle East
Tagged architect, China, Haim Dotan, Zhangjiajie
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D-Day June 6, 1944: In case you think you’re having a bad day, think again.
Saving Private Ryan Omaha Beach
On #MemorialDay or any other day, the cemeteries for those Americans who fell in battle offer profound lessons
WALL STREET JOURNAL The American Dead in Foreign Fields by Uwe E. Reinhardt May 25, 2016 …You can walk along the gravel paths of these cemeteries, and among the thousands of markers—crosses and Stars of David—beneath which the warriors rest. … Continue reading
One more schedule change from ArchitectGuy
In my ongoing quest for balance between life and this project, I’m cutting back one more day, this time losing the Monday AM edition (which I currently spend part of each Sunday preparing). Going forward, I’ll be emailing three issues per week: … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged ArchitectGuy
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Highland Park professor and author details why we’re struggling with the premises behind the North Shore School District 112 referendum
HP PATCH We’re Just Not There Yet’ on 112 Referendum by David Schneiderman March 11, 2016 “We’re just not there yet.” When I heard NSSD112 Superintendent Michael Bregy speak these words recently to a packed house at Ravinia Nursery School—referencing … Continue reading
Unreleased-till-now District 112 Architect Memo Proves Alternative Options Exist
FACEBOOK CARE: Citizens Against the 112 Referendum February 9, 2016 The District 112 School Board has stated time and again in the last few months that there are no other options for reconfiguration–except for their plan to borrow $198 million … Continue reading
PBS airs ‘The Perfect Crime’ about Chicago’s murderous Leopold and Loeb case [VIDEO]
TIMES OF ISRAEL Pair of privileged Jewish teens first used ‘affluenza’ defense in 1924 by Curt Schleier February 8, 2016 …Though press accounts didn’t mention it, [Ethan] Couch wasn’t the first high-profile case to use the “affluenza” defense. That dubious … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Jewish
Tagged Bobby Franks, Chicago, Ethan Couch, Nathan Leopold, PBS, Richard Loeb, The Perfect Crime
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Seltzermen. Before there was SodaStream [VIDEO]
The Last of the Seltzermen Gomberg Seltzer Works is the last seltzer company in New York City. It’s been around since 1953, fills up 3,000 bottles and has seltzer deliverymen attend to their customers in the New York area. There … Continue reading
Posted in Everything else, Jewish
Tagged Gomberg, Gomberg Seltzer Works, New York City, seltzer
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Honkeys Holding Down The Man In La La Land. Paging Sacheen Littlefeather
WASHINGTON BEACON #OscarsSoWhite, in Part Because #EverythingsAProblem by Sonny Bunch January 20, 2016 For the second year in a row, no actors of color have been nominated for an Academy Award. As a result of this travesty, the Academy Awards—an … Continue reading
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