http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ One Jew's News and Views en-us ads@yudel.com 2005-01-12T14:40:08-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000917.html At least someone in a Nigerian cyber-cafe is following the news: Date: 1/12/2005 14:44:40 +0200 From: "Mrs Suha Arafat" To: mrssuhaarafat@teenmail.co.za Subject: Trusted Partner for Investment/Safe Keep Dear Intending partner This mail may not be surprising to you if you have been following current events in the international media with reference to the Middle East and Palestine in particular. I am Mrs. SUHA ARAFAT, the wife of YASSER ARAFAT, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death... 917@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ 2005-01-12T14:40:08-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000916.html Maybe Einsteinian physics isn't necessary to explain the current on-again off-again state of YudelLine. It would be enough to describe a move from one hosting company to another, at a time when both hosting companies are shifting the machines on which this site has been / will be hosted. But really, relativity theory is much more interesting -- and practical -- than the theory of general server-side stupidity in which I have been embroiled, and probably will be embroiled for... 916@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ YudelLine Solipsism 2005-01-12T14:15:53-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000915.html 915@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Christian Right 2005-01-10T20:36:02-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000914.html So here's a question: Say you are a religion reporter for a daily newspaper and you need a quote on the "Jewish perspective" on God and the tsunami, or any other topic. Do you pick your source by denomination (and let me limit the exercise: you write for a general interest publication, not a Jewish one, with room only for one Jewish clergyperson, not one each from the major Jewish denominations)? I wonder if the first impulse would be to... 914@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Religion 2005-01-07T14:54:06-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000913.html This week's NJJN editor's column, on the rush to judgment over Israel and Sri Lanka.... 913@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Israeli Politics 2005-01-07T08:29:51-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000912.html we belatedly present this Daily Show clip in which Steven Colbert searches for the true meaning of Chanukah.... 912@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Holidays - Hanukkah 2005-01-07T01:01:54-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000911.html The headline of the Jerusalem Post article is "IAF scrambles jets as Egypt's airliners violate airspace" The story tells of the increasing number of Egyptian civilian planes getting frighteningly close to Eilat, noting that Only four people have the authority to order the downing of a passenger jet – the prime minister, defense minister, chief of General Staff and commander of the air force. The threat of a hijacked plane being crashed into an Israeli target is so worrisome that... 911@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ War on Terror 2005-01-07T00:42:05-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000910.html Iraqi insurgents demonstrate their "desperation" through bombings for the 16th month, as Matthew Yglesias documents. And Norwegianity asks, Why do they hate our troops?... 910@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Bush Administration 2005-01-06T20:33:53-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000909.html Thanks to Dov Bear for linking to MSNBC - 'Scarborough Country' where only the Jews are sane. One is an atheist. The other: Rabbi Boteach:God said, do not kill. He said, life is precious. So we have to come before him. And the word Israel means to fight with God, to wrestle with God and say, how do you allow this kind of thing? We are not cosmic chaff. We have a right to be angry. It's an honest religious... 909@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ 2005-01-06T20:28:56-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000908.html No, not those little Google ads I added to the margin. First of all, it's a violation of my agreement with Google to ask you to click them. Secondly, clicking them costs the advertisers money -- so there may be all sorts of halachic issues involved. Most importantly, even if I were to grow filthy rich from advertising revenue, that's not going to save the Jewish people. However.... putting aside the sensationalist headline, there actually is a Jewish public service... 908@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ 2005-01-06T17:57:57-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000907.html Via Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall comes this choice bit of Republican rhetoric: "The president is going to go ahead," said Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a Republican leadership lieutenant. "He cannot afford to fail. It would have repercussions for the rest of his program, including foreign policy. We can't hand the president a defeat on his major domestic initiative at a time of war." Oh, I see. If we don't gut social security, we're giving in to... 907@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ 2005-01-06T16:30:41-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000905.html Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of Toward Tradition, recycles his thesis that third-world countries get what they deserve because they lack the "influence of Biblical culture": Western civilization’s second distinctive cultural imperative is the importance of preserving human life. This too derives directly from our Biblical roots and distinguishes us from the peculiar fatalism toward death found in so many other cultures.....Many of the deaths are attributable to slowness in adopting the western values that promote technical and economic development along... 905@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Religion 2005-01-06T14:55:48-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000904.html Ron Rosenbaum addresses God and the tsunami: Let me concede that yes, there are many paths to faith, but it is an underappreciated scandal that, philosophically, the "age old question" of theodicy has not been satisfactorily answered without resort to vague evasions ("It’s all a mystery," "We just can’t understand God’s plan," "It will allow good to manifest itself in the hearts of the survivors," "We live in a fallen world," "The dead are better off in heaven"). To which... 904@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Religion 2005-01-06T10:30:22-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000903.html Total crap from Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder, who argue that America withhold aid from tsunami-stricken nations: [T]here should be a precondition that before these nations receive any aid, they should clearly denounce terrorism and, at the very least, discontinue the state-sponsored anti-American drivel heard in that part of the world.... Perhaps the strongest practical reason to hold up monies is the fact that we do not know that the money will actually reach the intended recipients. In fact, history... 903@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Israeli Politics 2005-01-05T12:34:41-05:00 http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/mtarchives/000902.html Israeli police apologize to Shas lawmaker for clocking his car at 145 mph. Why? Because his Mazda 6 is supposed to be able to reach only 110 mph.... 902@http://www.shmoozenet.com/yudel/ Israeli Politics 2005-01-04T15:04:07-05:00