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Money Can Buy Everything Except Spiritual Enlightenment
Boxing Day may as well be symbolized by a ringing till and hoards of queues with the odd pitched tent if what the mainstream media has you believe. The excitement of people practically falling over one another to get a cardigan they didn’t need to begin with is a fascinating one. What is it with […]
An interview with an Anti-Zionist Rabbi in London
December 14, 2012
Long time no blog. Where have I been? Oh, just doing some stuff. In any case, there’s a few special treats to end the year with, including the video above with Rabbi Jacob Weiss of human rights organisation, Rabbis for Palestine. It took place in mid-November during Israel’s invasion of Gaza, with a large congragation […]
Rachel Corrie further dents Israel’s losing battle of public opinion
August 28, 2012
If the outcome of the case of Rachel Corrie wasn’t enough to convince that anything said and accused of Israel was something easily brushed off, then it’s the latest of a series of whitewashes that the Knesset and supreme court are responsible for. The American activist was run over by a bulldozer demolishing a Palestinian […]
Posted in: Middle East, News
Has Eid become materialistic?
August 28, 2012
I remember the first Eid gifts I received when I was eight. It was the one thing I’d wanted so bad – a Casio watch! They were in a Snoopy and Peanuts goodie bag that me and my younger brother received when we were little. Inside, our mum was creative – there’d be an […]
An open letter to Britons and London 2012
August 14, 2012
Dear fellow countrymen, Well done. Kudos to every single one of you. I knew we had it in us to be united as a proper United Kingdom for the first time pretty much since, well – ever and get behind the Olympics, Team GB and the sense of occasion of being involved in something so […]
Is this a very British Olympics already, before its even started?
July 26, 2012
So at last! After years of preparation, billions spent and multi-national corporations flashing their products in your face, the big show commences in a matter of hours, the chance of a lifetime has finally arrived: the sun has come out! I jest. But national pride for would-be part-time patriots and sporting events has ratcheted up […]
An interview with Neturei Karta
July 13, 2012
A short while ago I wrote a piece on the Orthodox anti-zionist group Neturei Karta, which can be read here. I also wanted to know a bit more about the group in particular and managed to get a few words from Rabbi E. Beck. Based in New York, they took time out from their very […]
Posted in: Middle East, News
December 26, 2012
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