Soccer Dad: Haveil Havalim #93

November 12, 2006

Haveil Havalim #93

Well it's Haveil Havalim time. Much to my frustration, Verizon's been balky most of the day. Finally it appears to be working. (But don't blame me if I copy and paste this before saving just in case.)

The Election

The Town Crier, writes an extensive rebuttal to the Republican Jewish Coalition ad campaign..

NJDC happily claims that the campaign backfired and shows that Jews voted overwhelmingly Demcoratic.

Israel Matzav notes similar results but is not happy with them Once again Jews vote against their own interests.

Crossing the Rubicon3 presents slightly different data coming from (and spun by) the Republican Jewish Coalition.

JOSHUAPUNDIT already sees the ground shifting in the American Israeli relationship.

KesherTalk has a link filled postmortem, plus some of her thoughts. As far as Jonah Goldberg's suggestion. It won't work; black bear season just ended in Maryland.

CrossCurrents discusses accurate and inaccurate characterizations in the midst of an election campaign.

Personal pain and illness

AidelMaidel is back in the game. And not just blogging as she Faces fears. We'd like to wish her, hatzlachah in her search and may she find the happiness she is looking for.

In the Ties that Bind, Elie's Expositions examines the binding of Isaac in the lifght of his own experience.

A Balesboosteh anxioisly awaits Ambers's surgery. Here's a precious picture of Amber.

Letters of Thought visits his friend Yosef, who is suffering from Leukemia, in the hospital.

Kristallnacht

Bagel Blogger report on The Fate of a family living in Munich before the start of WWII.

A fistful of Euros tells of the opening of the new Synagogue in Munich.

Daled Amos writing here recounts medical ethicist Dr. Fred Rosner's recollection of Kristalnacht.

Pride

Life in Israel presents shooting yourself in the foot.

West Bank Mama takes pride in keeping the private, private.

Am Echad expresses his feelings too.

Obtuseness and outrageous

Writing here, Daled Amos discusses the difference between Nazi and suicide bomber costumes.

Deja Vu thinks that Amy Gutmann should resign.

Dhimmi Watch has an address by Bat Yeor.

Kesher Talk criticizes Vanity Fair's profile of Ismail Haniyeh. What's wrong with that? The guy's mainstream. He gets his op-ed published in the Washington Post and his assistant just got his op-ed published in the NY Times. The guy is totally mainstream. Some people are just too easily offended.

Judeosphere demonstrates that Walt and Mearsheimer are doing for "realism" what the segregationists did for states rights.

Non Ashkenazi Jews

West Bank Mama asks why we don't know their stories?

Aishel davens at his first hard core Sephardi (actually Iranian) Minyan.

Elder of Ziyon reports that hundreds of Bnei Menashe are making Aliyah. But Israel must keep quiet.

Beit Hanoun

Israel Matzav discusses how Israel manages - once again - to lose the media war.

Simply Jews writes on another way to use women.

Shiloh Musings doesn't care.

Israel Matzav reports that Egypt isn't just standing aside but actively helping the smugglers.

Mere Rhetoric has been covering the media and international dishonesty regarding Beit Hanoun like no one else. Start here and work back.

Misc

BeyondBT celebrates 100 years of the Mishneh Brura. More at Crosscurrents.

Contrary Don Radlauer whose blogname is now too long to write out takes a page or three or four from Polonius and asks for narratives of Israel's history. In six words. How about "Israel wins. Israel condemned. Israel concedes?"

DAG protests his poor treatment and broken promises by his boss.

Simply Jews applauds Minister of Environment Gideon Ezra for his excellent smog reducing idea.

TBIFOC has a loving tribute to the late Yasser Arafat as it might have been penned by Kofi Annan.

Meryl Yourish fisks the Financial Times history of Israel.

The Ignoble Experiment reports on a symposium about what to do about the Iranian nuclear threat. More here.

Me-Ander offers thoughts on drying washes and the month of Cheshvan.

Jewish Blogmeister wonders how his daughter's going to turn out.

Bec's Universe addresses the confusion she is having with her Aliyah Application.

Boker Tov Boulder records her thoughts about an interview with Sharansky co-author and Israeli (oleh and diplomatJ) Ron Dermer.

Me-Ander remembers R' Shlomo Carlebach.

Jewish Blogmeister has his Kosher Food Wrapup. Soucnds like an excellent entry for the Kosher Cooking Carnival. Get your entries in!

UPCOMING EDITIONS:

#94 - Nov 20, 2006 - Crossing the Rubicon3 (Note the new name and URL) e-mail at gailmail at gmail dot com.

#95 - Nov 26, 2006 - Smooth Stone gives it a shot for the first time. e-mail at one_smoothstone at yahoo dot com.

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