Here’s a not-so-gentle reminder from some folks calling themselves “The Schmucksters.”
Read the Torah, Schmuck!
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Boobie Q&A
Although I’ve already hyped her hilarious book, I gotta direct you to a recent Phoenix Jewish News interview with Tania Katan, humor maven, breast cancer survivor and shirtless marathon wonder.
My favorite excerpt:
JN: You talk in the book about the genetic predisposition to breast cancer fround in many Jewish women. How has that knowledge affected your Jewish identity?
TK: … Haven’t Jews had to endure enough? I grew up in Tempe [AZ], where I felt like I was the only Jew anywhere. So culturally and religiously, I felt sort of different from lots of folks. And then having this genetic mutation that only affects a small number of people and, guess what, they happen to be Jews, I’m like “enough already.” We’ve suffered enough, we’ve walked through the desert, we’re exhausted.
The woman slays me, always.
Being a Yenta-come-lately I apologize for posting nary a thing about Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. But like many others, I did go ahead and have my usual Manic Panic red locks streaked pink in support.
Tehran: We Have A “Winner”
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency, four Jewish artists participated in Tehran’s International Caricature Exhibition on “Holocaust,” but none of them won. Shocking.
A direct quote: “Secretary of the Competition Section Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei said in closing ceremony of the international exhibition here on Wednesday it was interesting that no sign of antisemitism could be traced in any of the caricatures received by the Competition Section.”
I can’t decide what’s more disturbing: The use of the Holocaust in quotes, the audacity that denying the Holocaust isn’t just one of the biggest “signs” of anti-Semitism there is, or just the atrocious English.
In a related article from the same source, culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad-Hossein Saffar Harandi commended artists from Iran and around the globe for expressing “their noble feelings” and that their “hatred towards the hated figures of Zionism and their masters, is a sign of love for the victims of Zionism.”
Okay, wait, hate…is a sign of love…victims…of Zionism? Damn, these people are f*ckin’ meshuggah!
The cartoon contest, a response to last winter’s Danish disaster and propelled by Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s Napoleanic wishes to wipe away parts of the map, was won by a Moroccan resident.
Abdollah Derkaoui received $12,000 for his work depicting an Israeli crane piling large cement blocks on Israels security wall and gradually obscuring Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. A picture of Nazi Germanys Auschwitz concentration camp appears on the wall.
Betcha he’s going to blow it all at Disneyland.
*Now this cartoon, via onejerusalem, this is skin-crawling in the right way.