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State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
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What would my Israeli grandmother think?
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- Iran and Israel
- Ideological Bigotry
- The leaders of Israel and the Jewish people are failing us
- Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
- Conversion Rules/Who is a Jew?
What does it all mean? Two Jews = three opinions, at least!
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Here are the Top Five Most Popular stories on JewishJournal.com so far this month (August, 2007):
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August 13, 2007 | 9:44 pm
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People get to Web sites lots of ways; sometimes, they search on Google or Yahoo! and end up clicking on JewishJournal.com.
I keep track of these ‘referrals’ using software called Mint. Here are the latest results:
The Top Five Searches that brought ‘traffic’ to JewishJournal.com so far this month, and the articles these Web surfers read:
Do you see the pattern? It’s all about people.
The Internets are just like Soylent Green.
They’re made of people!
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August 12, 2007 | 6:17 pm
RIP Merv Griffin
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Entertainment great Merv Griffin died today, Sunday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 82.
Griffin, right in photo above, made in his last appearance in The Jewish Journal in June, when he was photographed with Fred Hayman, center, and Placido Domingo, left, at a ceremony marking Fred Hayman week in Beverly Hills.
RIP, Merv. Ooooooooooooh.
—Dennis Wilen
August 8, 2007 | 10:57 pm
Stop the presses: Jews have Jewish names!
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Sometimes I wish I had more time to watch TV.
Not really. All the kewl video is on the Internets:
From TMZ.COM:
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“Big Brother” Shiksa Learns Jews Have Jewish Names
Posted Aug 8th 2007 11:59AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV
Relations between Israel and the “Big Brother” house are strained today, after a somewhat anti-Semitic rant from crybaby housemate Amber hit the Internet this week. Oy vey!
Where to begin, already? First of all, Amber said the majority of Jews she knows are “selfish.” She then went on to say that her mom and sister explained to her that one can tell who is Jewish based on “their last name” and “by their nose.”
more @
Of course, the ADL’s Abraham Foxman has to issue a statement. Luckily, he just borrows from my post about hate on the WWW (see below).
Foxman:
It’s part of the unintended consequences of the communications revolution. Anybody can say what they do - but reality shows are now giving license to these expressions of anti-Semitism. Now, all of a sudden, the world is privy to their bigotry and it’s on national television… then enhanced on YouTube.
Ya think?
—Dennis Wilen
August 7, 2007 | 2:17 am
E-mail gives Jews the ‘Heebie Jeebies’
Posted by JewishJournal.com
An anti-Semitic Web site is first on Google when you search for ‘Jew,’ and e-mail about the issue is making the rounds again.
Two people here at JewishJournal.com got the e-mail last week and both asked me what was up. I told them not to worry, it was old news (from 2004), not to get the ‘Heebie Jeebies.’
The Heebie Jeebies—1932—the Boswell Sisters
But it really was new to them, so I thought some of you guys might want to learn more too.
Here’s some background from the Anti-Defamation League and the response from Google.
The gist: We know about it, we’re working on it, there’s not much we can do about it. Please stand by.
The hate site everyone writes about is only the tip of the iceberg. The Web is filled with everything imaginable (both good and bad), and some things unimaginable.
Sometimes it seems to me there are people (robots?) who do nothing but post hate and propaganda to message boards all day long, all week, like it’s a full time job to blame the Mossad for 9/11 or berate the ‘Jew World Order’ for everything from Communism to Capitalism.
The hate on the venerable Yahoo! News message boards caused Y! (disclosure: I once worked there) to close down their message boards entirely.
The videos I see every night when I cruise YouTube.com are a swamp of hate.
What to do?
My response is to “represent”—the more I see that bad stuff, the more I want to put the good stuff up on the Internets.
That’s the reason I started our JewishJournal.com YouTube Channel. Positive, fun, interesting videos. Rabbis, rockers, rebels.
No hate. No anti-anything. Just the wild wonderful world of Jews, Judios, and Yehudim.
Tell your friends.
—Dennis Wilen
August 5, 2007 | 12:39 pm
Hava Nagila: Funny, you don’t look Jewish
Posted by JewishJournal.com
Music is a universal language, and sometimes it has Hebrew lyrics!
Check out these versions of Hava Nagila from Texas, Bollywood and Thailand:
Hava Nagila Texas Style (Featuring Juan & Pancho)
Bollywood Hava Nagila—with subtitles in Hebrew and Russki
Hava Nagila Thai Style
All these videos are favorites on JewishJournal.com’s YouTube Channel.
Enjoy!
—Dennis Wilen
August 4, 2007 | 2:48 pm
VIDEO: The Bible Code: hoax or holiness?
Posted by The Web Guy
Video: Michael Shermer scrutinizes the idea of ‘hidden’ messages in the Torah.
It’s just numerology, says Shermer, and serves as a supreme example of pattern-seeking (and finding) behavior of which we humans are so skilled.
While pattern recognition helps us pick out predators hidden in the foliage, sometimes wishful thinking makes us see things that aren’t really there. So-called ‘hidden messages’ in the Torah, says the publisher of Pasadena-based ‘Skeptic’ magazine, are neither hidden nor messages.
Advocates of traditional Jewish numerology—gematria—don’t care what Shermer thinks.
Here’s Shermer’s argument:
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