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May 8, 2008

Last night, JTA staffers Ben Harris and Uriel Heilman attended different events here in NYC, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding. Having had to turn down an opportunity to attend last night’s big concert at Radio City, I sat down with them both to find out what I missed. [audio:/images/archive/050808_yom_haatzmaut.mp3] To subscribe to JTA’s […]

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A few weeks ago JTA’s Ben Harris filed a story about the uneasiness that some American Jews have with the standard text of the Prayer for the State of Israel, which triggered some back-and-forth in the blogosphere. Now, Ynet’s Uri Orbach is offering up his own (somewhat amusing) version: Our Father in Heaven, Rock and […]

Mark Twain (or whomever really deserves credit) was pretty much on the money when he quipped: “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times.” But there’s always an exception to the rule. Today it would be a cool day to be in […]

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