The best way to visit Israel as a Jew is to do so naively. Go when you’re very young. Don’t look to your left, or to your right. You will love it. Return as an adult, however, and the magic is hard to recreate.
Summer is usually a much anticipated season of sun-brightened days and bright blue and green Instagram streams and no school and barefoot running across blacktop to get to the pool and a news cycle so slow that teen sex parties and heartwarming tails of two-legged dogs who overcame the odds dominate the news cycle.…
People with an internet connection and a digital camera are doing their part to end the age old conflict between Israel and Palestine by posting selfies alongside plates of hummus. Why didn't we think of this sooner?
[Gaza City, October 30: A damn adorable Palestinian girl throws dry flowers during a mass wedding ceremony. 70 couples took part, which is like killing 70 birds with one ginormous stone. I like it. Image via AP.]
Gaza's Hamas rulers have banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, arguing that it is sullying the image of the Palestinian people. Apparently, putting a hose in your mouth is sexual - but only when the ladies do it.
[Jerusalem, June 2. Image via AP]
[East Jerusalem, June 1. Image via AP]
Some Gazan teens suffer from a rare condition in which they are born appearing female, but develop male characteristics at puberty. They're now awaiting sex changes — a process that a new genetic discovery may one day make easier.
[Jerusalem, October 9. Image via Getty]
[Beit Lahia, Gaza; July 15. Image via Getty]
[Erez Crossing, Israel; June 23. Image via Getty]
So much floral news today! Carnations break for the border, meanings are redefined, the Duffy-dil is invented, the imports are a racket...read all about it!
With the first celebrity concert of the inauguration over and a day of rest and MLK-inspired service upon us, there is plenty of time to reflect on Prop 8, Gaza, North Korea and tax cuts.
Barack Obama is back in Washington, and Washington is all about Barack Obama even as the current President is short-timing the end of his Presidency and shit is going up in flames.
Yeah, it's the last one for the forseeable future, so we've got your Bristol Palin baby update, Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, C-sections, purple drank, Detroit, and 6 of your favorite Crappy Hourists all together.
It's old school today with Moe Tkacik and me weighing in on recession spending, New Orleans' new Congressmen Cao, and what we would do for the money Bristol Palin's getting for pictures of her spawn.
Aw, look at the cute boys from Scranton who got suspended for cutting class to see Obama! They missed a quiz on The Stranger. "Existentialism is dead," one said. If only we could say the same for killing the Arabs, kids! So yeah, we really, really wanted to play hooky today. It's hot in my house and most of the "news"…
