Photographs


Mom and Katie with GGB

Mom and Katie with GGB

Josh wanted the same photo!

Josh wanted the same photo!

Jantar Mantar.jpg

Jantar Mantar.jpg

Nathan @ India Gate.jpg

Nathan @ India Gate.jpg

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

ntableman's photo

Having survived the craziness of the New Delhi train station at 5am, nearly being scammed, figuring out the booking system, and boarding the train I was ready to relax. Wow what an experienc ...

Having survived the craziness of the New Delhi train station...

Filming Bollywood.jpg

Filming Bollywood.jpg

Degenerates in Lebanon

Our old pal Nasrallah up in Lebanon appeared in public for the first time in a long time according to recent news posts. Not to rehash all the old news about how Israel messed up in not being able to lay proper waste to this man in the LW2 and also to avoid thinking too [...]

Reason #378 Why Jews Stop Being Jews

From YNet this morning, an uplifting and thoughtful decision on gender roles:

…prominent Zionist-religious leader explained that women are allowed to study specific verses from the Gemara, which deal with “subjects related to them,” but they “shouldn’t study Gemara like men.”

What is there to say about this? I do indeed believe in family roles, [...]

Where Is My Moshe Dayan?

My opinion is pretty clear on this. Stop acting up and you will have a nation lickity-split. I have written about ‘The Arc‘ and other rumination about the Palestinian issue. It has come up recently in the guise of 40th anniversary celebrations of the 6 Day War from The Economist to a read of Time [...]

Kind Of Nice To Be Right

But it kind of sucks too. I just did a quick lunchtime read of the The Iraq Study Report and the situation is not looking too good for Iraq. I wish I could say I was amused, even sarcastically bemused, at the smug sense I get while reading. Everything those of us on my side [...]

Is This Anti-Jew or Anti-Israel

This on the wire:

UN criticizes Israel for Golan Heights annexation Human Rights Council passes two resolutions criticizing Israel, but keeps its record intact of singling out no other country for human rights abuses

Hmmm, what do you think? 6 months in existence and the first thing this tribunal takes on is Israel? Not China, [...]

Declarations of Independance

Read this, the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Why was I reading this today? I forget, but I was curious about this moment in history. Notice this:

The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem [...]