David Blaine

March 10th, 2010
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Eats funny.

miguel.

If you miss me, check out my fan page!

March 10th, 2010
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These days, I’m not doing so much blogging but I am micro-blogging on my fan page. If you miss my incredibly long posts and don’t have the energy to read the blog from start to finish, consider jumping into the discussions on my fan page.

What we’re discussing now?
How Jews, particularly Orthodox Jews, judge each other’s observance level based on dress code.
Talking to converts about non-Jewish vs. Jewish souls.
The latest conversion bill attempting to pass in Israel which will take converts off the list of Jews that can benefit from the Law of Return.
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Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman

Durbin to Obama: ‘YOU LIE!’ #rsrh

March 10th, 2010
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[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit & Hot Air readers.
…well, as much as a Democratic party career politician can manage it, at least:

Which is to say, it’s even money that Dick Durbin (D, IL) isn’t sufficiently aware of the political battlespace to know that he had called the head of his political party a liar.
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[UPDATE]: Ed Morrissey [...]

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‘Why then, this is Hell’ Watch: March 10, 2010.

March 10th, 2010
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I know that generally runway fashion models are expected to wear, well, very stupid articles of what might have been clothing once, in more innocent times… OK, let me stop there before I shoehorn a mad scientist into that metaphor.  Anyway:

Again, I know that they’re expected to wear… things.  But this is just somebody being [...]

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*I* was born to run.

March 10th, 2010
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Or born to be wild.  Like giraffes!

Long story. And to switch back: yeah, the giraffes in that video aren’t precisely being left to be wild on their own.
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PS: Joanna Lumley is kinda weird about giraffes, isn’t she?

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Cynthia Yockey forwards* a question for the ages.

March 10th, 2010
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“Is incense not a sin?”
I believe that in some Protestant sects it would be, on the grounds of it being crypto-Popery.  Hmm.  ‘Popepourri?’
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PS: I leave the question of where the children of Adam and Eve – particularly Cain – got their spouses to actual Bible literalists, as it is a question relevant to their [...]

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*Moral* courage.

March 10th, 2010
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Surely they can at least manage that.
The time has come for somebody in the Democratic party to show moral courage.
Consider the situation. Despite a seventy vote majority in the House of Representatives and a then-twenty majority in the Senate, the Democratic party was only able to barely pass health care legislation in both Houses [...]

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My first thought was ‘Death panels,’ too…

March 10th, 2010
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…as per the first comment in this Hot Air post about Kent Pankow.  But that’s absurd: we’ve been told by all sorts of people that such things could never, ever, ever happen under a government-run universal health care regime.
Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, [...]

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A Jewminican event if there ever was one

March 10th, 2010
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Museo Judio Sosua

At the Y in Washington Heights, Jewish kids and Dominican kids came together to stage a musical production about Sosua. A lot has been written about Sosua lately, many books and articles written about the small town in the Dominican Republic where Jews fleeing the Holocaust settled in 1938. Many of these Jews eventually left the Dominican Republic for America but not before creating a kosher cheese factory and a synagogue, and even a museum.

The evil dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ruling the Dominican Republic with an iron fist at that time in history, offered to let thousands of Jews settle in DR. Prior to making this offer, he slaughtered thousands of Haitians. The two stories about why Trujillo opened the doors to his country to Jews are very different. One says that Trujillo invited the Jews so they would intermingle with Dominicans and “whiten the race.” Another story claims that when his daughter studied in America, she experienced a lot of racism but bonded with a Jewish woman.
There have been Jews in the Dominican Republic since 1942, when conversos came to the Caribbean with Christopher Columbus. To this day, there is a small community in Santo Domingo, which includes not just one synagogue but also a Chabad rabbi who now slaughters kosher meat there and who recently made news for hopping over from Santo Domingo to Haiti to help in the aid efforts.
To watch a clip of the students working together on the “Sosua” production, click here. (You need QuickTime to view this video.)

RELATED:

“The Dominican Republic’s Haven for Jewish Refugees” (Article)

“Dominican Haven:The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945″ (Book)

“Sosua: On Being Jewish” (article)

Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman

The ‘Support the Webhost’ Fundraising Post.

March 9th, 2010
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As you may or may not be aware, MoeLane.com is hosted by fellow-RS Contributor and all-around swell guy Neil Stevens, who covers the costs per month for bandwidth and whatnot himself. We could use more advertising revenue, frankly – we could use any advertising revenue, frankly – but in the meantime; if you were [...]

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