Checking Hanes on Planes?

On December 31, 2009, in 9/11, human rights, Islam, Jews, Judaism, terrorism, by jenhanin

Potty Humor is at an all time high thanks to the lat­est failed Islamic ter­ror­ist, AKA the Under­wear bomber. Butt. Seri­ously! What can we expect next? Ter­ror­ists with explo­sive anal plugs, tam­pons, implants or pros­the­ses? I mean how far we can expect Islamic extrem­ists to go to destroy our way of life? Appar­ently, far. Killing innocent […]

Aladdin Take Cover: Saudi Arabia Wants You for Sorcery

On December 23, 2009, in Islam, Jews, sorcery, by jenhanin

Sor­cery plays a huge role in Harry Pot­ter nov­els and sub­se­quent block­busters. It even did well for Disney’s Aladdin sto­ry­books and ani­mated movies. So imag­ine get­ting the death penalty for own­ing a book on magic, try­ing to learn it or believ­ing in psy­chic medi­ums like John Edward or James Van Praagh. This alone would indict mil­lions of […]

Read Between the Lies

On December 15, 2009, in 9/11, honor killings, human rights, Iran, Jews, Judaism, terrorism, Uncategorized, by jenhanin

We hear an awful lot that Islam is a reli­gion of peace. And I know some who fit that descrip­tion. Yet coun­tries that have near 100 per­cent Islamic pop­u­la­tion  –  Afghanistan, Soma­lia, Saudi Ara­bia and Yemen  –  seem any­thing but peace­ful. So why are we privy to fre­quent news reports of Islamic ter­ror­ist attacks, sui­cide bomb­ings, insur­gent upris­ings and Fat­was order­ing violence to […]

Focus on Faith Not Fanfare

On December 11, 2009, in Judaism, Writing, by jenhanin

Chanukah for Jew­ish kids is a fun occa­sion. Meno­rah can­dles to light. Songs to sing. Drei­dels to spin. Food to eat. And gelt to enjoy. Hon­estly, how many of us can walk away from choco­late? But like Christ­mas, the reli­gious sig­nif­i­cance of the hol­i­day often takes a back­seat to presents. So what’s a par­ent to do? The easiest, less costly […]

Disputes Over Israeli Territory Must End

On December 10, 2009, in Israel, Judaism, Palestinians, terrorism, by jenhanin

No one would ever think of telling Gov­er­nor Rick Perry to return Texas to Mex­ico. Nor, would any­one chide Gov­er­nor Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger to return Cal­i­for­nia to Mex­ico. And no one, I mean no one, would ever demand that US Pres­i­dent Obama return Amer­ica to the United King­dom. Yet, the world, often influ­enced by Mid­dle East­ern oil money, […]

Israel is Still the World’s Favorite Whipping Boy

On December 8, 2009, in Iran, Israel, Judaism, Palestinians, terrorism, by jenhanin

Yes­ter­day, I encoun­tered an unsa­vory tweeter on Twitter.com. The hater couched him­self as a “human rights activist” while spew­ing vile lies about Israel and its peo­ple. But those of us abreast of the sit­u­a­tion in Israel, abroad and the UN know that this is just another thinly-veiled attempt to dis­credit and demo­nize the Jew­ish state. All […]

If Only We Could Be Like These Kindergarteners

On December 4, 2009, in Judaism, terrorism, by jenhanin

Like lots of Jew­ish par­ents, my hus­band and I grap­pled with whether to keep our kids in a synagogue-run school or go pub­lic. We made the deci­sion to try pub­lic kinder­garten after mov­ing to an area where the near­est syn­a­gogue school was about half an hour away. There were times that we wor­ried our daugh­ters would feel iso­lated in […]

Another Yahoo Talks Out of His Butt

On December 1, 2009, in Iran, Israel, Judaism, terrorism, by jenhanin

Blam­ing Amer­ica for all ter­ror­ism is about the same as blam­ing the bal­loon boy for hav­ing morons as par­ents. Both are ludi­crous. Obvi­ously, Hezbollah’s chief, Has­san Nas­ral­lah, is as igno­rant as he is delu­sional because trans­fer­ence is only an option when it comes from the mouth of a cred­i­ble source. His lat­est address con­tained a num­ber of […]