http://thisisbabylon.net Y-Love's official weblog - opinions and writings from Y-LOVE on a variety of current topics. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:25:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Jerusalem Post today breaks the heart-wrenching news: three people were killed and 66 more wounded (1 moderately, the rest "lightly") when a bulldozer-driving terrorist, 30-year-old Husam Taysir Dwayat from "Southeast Jerusalem" plowed through downtown Jerusalem. His rampage would crush six cars and overturn others, and would ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/07/02/bulldozer-attack-in-jerusalem-he-tried-to-run-over-anything-that-moves/ Roughly 3 in 10 Americans admit to harboring "some feelings of racial prejudice", a new Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week has found. Some 30% of white respondents and 34% of black respondents answered yes to the question: "If you honestly assessed yourself, would you say that you ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/22/washington-postabc-news-poll-racist-feeling-in-america/ New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up to the plate for Barack Obama on Friday forcefully denouncing anti-Obama propaganda e-mails directed at the Jewish community, the New York Times reported yesterday. Bloomberg, in a rare display of faith, spoke to Jewish communities in South Florida denouncing the e-mails ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/22/obama-and-the-jews-iii-bloomberg-steps-in/ Baruch Hashem v'yishtabach Shmo for this story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Rachel Pomerance. Black Americans make up a "significant portion of those learning about Judaism" in Atlanta, a sign of a growing Black American Jewish population: At Congregation Shearith Israel, a conservative synagogue in Virginia-Highland, where Pamela Harris works as the senior ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/18/the-rising-black-american-jewish-population/ Apollo Braun (real name: Doron Braunshtein), an Israeli-born New York-area visual artist, has begun to gain notariety as of late for his ever-creative anti-Obama gear. In March, he launched his line of $129-250 custom "Who Killed Obama?" T-shirts, calling himself very "punk rock" to the fashion blogger ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/18/hawking-anti-obama-propaganda/ A new disturbing word has apparently entered at least a few Yiddish speakers' vernacular: טאליבאניסט'ן (talibanisten -- accent on the next-to-last syllable), "the Taliban", to describe the new radical, violent charedizealots who have no problems terrorizing and injuring and maiming women in the most audacious of places. Please, someone, someone tell ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/05/beitar-illit-acid-spilled-on-14-year-old/ King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain made a historic appointment on Wednesday, the appointment of Huda Azra Ibrahim Nunu to the post of ambassador to the United States. Ms. Nunu is Bahrain's third female ambassador -- the first being to France and the second to China -- ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/06/02/bahrains-newest-ambassador/ These past few weeks I've been touring, promoting my album, This is Babylon and haven't been able to write as much as I had been in the past. From Berlin to LA and everywhere in between, these past few weeks have been a non-stop marathon of promotion and performance. And I ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/05/22/obama-and-the-jews-ii/ New Perspectives Quarterly this quarter ran an interview with Barack Obama on topics such as energy independence, the Iraq War, and foreign relations. NPQ (and the Huffington Post)'s Beverly Davis conducted the interview which gives even more of a clear-cut view as to what the Obama administration would look ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/04/23/obama-on-energy-independence-and-diplomacy/ It doesn't matter what Mitt Romney said ("quite offensive...strange and elitist"), what Karl Rove said ("an elitist...he is arrogant"), what John McCain said ("a fundamental contradiction of what I believe America's all about"), what network news said, what the pundits said ("[the Obamas] ooze a sense of entitlement"), or ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/04/16/bitter-gate-no-problem-for-obama/ Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit another record high in 2007, according to the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada. The 2007 total of 1,042 incidents represented an 11.4% increase over the previous year, and was nearly double the 586 incidents reported in 2003: http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/04/16/canada-another-record-setting-year-for-anti-semitism/ Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. First she got played out by Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press, where she was shown, vis-a-vis her campaign platform, to have flipflopped on a number of issues, most notably the Iraq War where, despite her claims to the contrary, she voted to fund the war numerous ... http://thisisbabylon.net/2008/04/13/hillary-trying-to-be-the-new-huckabee/