The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
Briefly
It’s the Islamism, stupid: But I thought they’re terrorists because they’re poor, unemployed, and oppressed! The head of France’s counterespionage agency said that France foiled a terror attack aimed at an IDF fundraiser (uh… the IDF has fundraisers?) in Paris. … Continue reading
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Rembering 9/11
I wrote about it more than once already. I’ve nothing new to say.
The I’m still on leave briefs
Nukes for us, but not for you: The Arab states are going to pressure the UN to come down on Israel to sign the NPT. Yeah, good luck with that, suckers. It’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism: On the eve of Rosh … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, News Briefs, Religion, United Nations 2 Comments
Shanah Tovah
L’Shanah Tovah Tikatevu to all of my Jewish readers. A sweet and happy new year to you and your families. My mother is in town. We’re making an apple cake for the Oneg tonight (and keeping half for ourselves!). And … Continue reading
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Erev Rosh Hashana briefs
So cemeteries aren’t such holy ground after all: The Islamists in Israel freaked out over a claim that Israel is building over a Muslim cemetery. (They’ve even put up fake headstones to “prove” it is an active cemetery; it is … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, News Briefs, Religion Tagged Gaza, Israel, peace process 3 Comments
Post-holiday briefs
How to spin a report properly: This Ynet article takes Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report on the state of Israeli education at face value, and gives you depressing statistic after depressing statistic. Israel spent less, teaches fewer hours, … Continue reading
The mythical “last chance” for peace
While doing some reading around the blogosphere, I came across this phrase in a J Street release on the direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians: The window of opportunity for progress is brief and closing. This could well … Continue reading
J Street smears ECI: It’s all about lack of context
J Street knows that the Emergency Committee for Israel is hitting nerves. Joe Sestak has now refudiated signing a letter to Obama urging the lifting of most of the Gaza blockade. So what is J Street doing? Lying by omission. … Continue reading
Why, yes, the site was down for a while
I was out enjoying the last day of summer with my favorite family. I had backwards dinner tonight—custard at Rita’s with Sarah and the kids, then dinner. I bought a dining room set today. I won’t have it by the … Continue reading
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Tzedaka for the holidays
If you’re trying to decide where to send your tzedaka for the high holidays, consider 2020 Vision Quest. My friend Rachel is heavily involved with the fundraising. She told me that there are about 4 million blind people in the … Continue reading
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Saturday night open thread
Been having a life this weekend, since an out-of-town visitor is here. Showed her the Richmond sights, then went to the Byrd Theater for the second-run showing of Prince of Persia. You know, that really is a fun, fun movie. … Continue reading
Friday, briefly
Awesome! The UN gives up on Israel’s nukes: That will be one less anti-Israel report out of the UN, as investigators have given up because they can’t get the information they need for the report. Oh, like Israel is going … Continue reading
The Netanyahu narrative: He doesn’t really want peace
The anti-Israel (and anti-Bibi) narrative continues. In this AP peace processs analysis, the writer reports about critics on “both sides,” and yet, it is Netanyahu who is slammed throughout. Witness: Analysts on both sides questioned the ability and desire of … Continue reading
More briefs!
Awesome! I get to piss off the Mormons again: Every time I post about the Mormons posthumously baptizing Jews, one of them manages to read my blog and post an angry comment. So here it is: The LDS say they’re … Continue reading
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Briefs
Turkey is starting to get the piper’s bill: The U.S. military will withdraw again from the annual joint military exercises with Turkey and Israel if Turkey excludes Israel again. The question for the Turks, then, is who do they think … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Terrorism Tagged Palestinians, peace process 4 Comments