So sorry for the post/photo shortage today…time ran out on us. No, there is no good excuse. At the very least, with about 20 minutes left in the week, we’d like to offer our sincerest Shabbat wishes to all!
–The Jmerica Blog Team

Our admiration for Montreal blogger Jewlicious keeps rising like poppin’ fresh dough for his(?) skewering analysis of Matchnet and Jdate’s 100 million-dollar IPO on the NASDAQ. This guy checked out the prospectus and came up with some seriously unfortunate numbers for Jdate, not to mention offering up the information that Joe Shapira, the founder of Matchnet/Jdate, is a total slimeball.
Six days later, Matchnet withdrew their offering. Coincidence or Jewlicious justice?
All we know is that it takes us feel good to be the little guy.

That was Morrocan Jew Ron Bensmihon wearing only a tutu and the web address of a casino after spidering through the Greek’s billion-dollar Olympic security barricade to the high dive, where he danced around like a squirrel on crack and then jumped into the pool. He was arrested and thrown in a Greek jail, a place of which we hope none of us ever see inside.
This guy has been hired to disrupt sporting events and gain publicity in the past by www.GoldenPalace.com (who has also employed topless girls to crash golf tournaments and Dennis Rodman to run with the bulls in Pamplona) but the company insists Bensmihon was acting on his own free will this time. Which means they won’t even pay him for his trouble. Wanker!
Care of the very smart, very funny blogger at Jewlicious.com.

That’s the sound of us tooting our own horn. Here’s a fascinating article about yours truly from Michael Sasser at the Miami-Dade Jewish Journal. We got warm fuzzies when head honcho Dave Goldfarb praised Jmerica’s team efforts. We know we make this look so easy, but for every word you read there are a hundred Ooompa-Loompas sustained only by kosher pickles programming away the night.

From Jewish Bazaar. We think it’s an excellent choice for those dreaded “meet the parents” dinners. Not recommended for a promenade in France.

26 year-old DJ Liz Wallenberg got one gnarly tattoo care of Con Edison when she wiped out on a skin-melting manhole cover on her skateboard. We’re assuming Liz is Jewish. Even if she’s not, we’re betting her lawyer is.

A provocative story from Ha’aretz on the graffiti artists of Jerusalem. They’re no Basquiat, but at least they’ve got passion for their cause. Unlike American graffiti artists, who tag their indecipherable bullsh*t all over the place but can’t get past signing their own names.

We weren’t even a twinkle in our daddy’s eye when Exodus was published in 1958, but Leon Uris‘ hugely successful novel about the birth of Israel still rocked our world to the last page. Certainly more entertaining than boring old history books, but we had to keep reminding ourselves that Exodus is fiction…or is it?
Uris, who died last year, is credited with bringing the story of the Jewish people to the modern world. He interviewed thousands of people and combed every square inch of Israel to provide an accurate background for his characters. Upon finishing it, we felt like we knew more about the historical events that helped the Jewish state into being. But we’re wondering: has this novel become the primary historical reference for most of us when it comes to speaking about Israel? Is that bad?