Friday, December 22, 2006

I want a Job action figure!!!

I thought this was a pretty funny article to read in the Business section of the newspaper:

The "crazy, crazy Jewish fun" of Kosherland looks a lot like the board game Candy Land, except gefilte fishing substitutes for visits to the Ice Cream Sea.

In Catholic-opoly, like Monopoly, the job is to bankrupt your opponents. The difference is it's done "in a nice, fun way."

And role-playing can get pretty realistic with the Biblical Action Figure of Job, which comes complete with boils.


Read the rest here.

"complete with boils"!?!?

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Why deny the Holocaust?

It's such an interesting question. For me, the whole idea of Holocaust denial is just so ridiculous that I don't really have rational ideas about the whole thing. But the very title of this article made me think -- why would it even occur to someone to want to deny the Holocaust?

From an article by Caroline Glick, entitled "Why Deny the Holocaust?" (appeared in the Jerusalem Post)

There is something terribly confusing about Iran's penchant for denying the Holocaust. Given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stated desire to see Israel wiped off the map, it would seem more reasonable for Iran to be celebrating the Holocaust than denying it.


Such a good point, isn't it? Why don't they just "celebrate" the death of Jews, rather than say it never happened!? Glick continues:

But Ahmadinejad is slicker than that. He embraces not the Holocaust but the nation that pulled it off. In his August missive to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he referred to the German nation as "a great contributor to progress in science, philosophy, literature, the arts and politics" who have had a "positive influence in international relations and the promotion of peace." These lines of course are open to interpretation. He could be referring to Goethe and Schiller and he could be referring to Heidegger and Goebbels. So why is the guy who is gunning for a new Holocaust belittling the last one?

First of all, by doing so he empowers those Germans and friends of Germany who carried it out. By denying the Holocaust Ahmadinejad turns the Nazis into victims and so provides a space for them to express themselves after a 60-year silence. Indeed, in Germany neo-Nazism is a burgeoning political and social force that proudly parades its links to Iran.


Read the rest of the article.

What do you think?

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Need a Last Minute Chanukah Gift?

Try...charity checks. Let them choose the charity, you choose the amount.

Happy Chanukah!

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Madness of Holocaust Denial

An entire conference devoted to "debunking" the Holocaust. Can someone please explain to me how this even can be explained!? This is sheer madness.

Read about it here: in the New York Times.

P.S. Deborah Lipstadt, who has made a big name for herself arguing with Holocaust deniers, will be our JUF Brunch speaker at Am Shalom this coming April. I'm sure she'll have something incredible to say about this scary nonsense in Iran.