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…
Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Racism imagined; antisemitism ignored
There’s a joke about a man who goes to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist starts with a Rorschach test. Each image the man is shown is described as a “naked woman.” Finally, in exasperation the psychiatrist says, “Mr. Jones, you have … Continue reading
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Let them be, David
David Taube, aka David T of Harry’s Place, makes another valiant effort to separate the wheat from the chaff in his article Why we must reclaim antiracism from the far left (on CiF, of all places). Of course, it got … Continue reading
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When outrage is in short supply
Thomas Friedman’s No Way, No How, Not Here praises Indian Muslims for refusing to bury the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. To be sure, Mumbai’s Muslims are a vulnerable minority in a predominantly Hindu country. Nevertheless, their in-your-face defiance … Continue reading
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Turning Durban II?
According to the Obama administration, it is getting involved in the planning of the Durban II conference with the intent of changing it. “The intent of our participation is to work to try to change the direction in which the … Continue reading
Arab anti-Semitism: It’s pandemic
This post was first published on July 29, 2004. It is just as relevant today as it was four and a half years ago. And the reason I’m republishing it: The Egyptians are calling Avigdor Lieberman “racist.” For the past … Continue reading
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The Washington Post self-corrects
I was bothered earlier this week with a report from the Washington Post about the travails facing the Jews of South America. The article, I thought, put the onus of blame on their plight on Israeli actions and underplayed the … Continue reading
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Ain’t democracy great
A surprising observation from left wing commentator, Glenn Greenwald: Needless to say, isolating an Israeli government that includes the democratically elected Yisrael Beiteinu party and childishly pretending that they don’t exist is a central prong of the peace camp’s approach … Continue reading
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The Post’s prism
In retrospect, I went too easy on yesterday’s Washington Post report on antisemitism in South America. I was uncomfortable with how the reporters framed the antisemitism as a reaction to Israel’ s war against Hamas. In fact, as Travis Pantin … Continue reading
British institutional anti-Semitism
It seems like every time you turn around, another British politician is cursing Jews. I’m sorry, I mean, Israelis. British authorities have detained a Foreign Office diplomat who allegedly uttered anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli profanities last month in anger over the … Continue reading
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South American antisemitism
The Washington Post reports that a number of South American countries are becoming inhospitable to their Jewish residents. Anger at Israel’s recent military strikes in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist group Hamas have sparked demonstrations here and in two … Continue reading
Holocaust denying Bishop denies denial of denying
To recap: The Pope un-excommunicates a bishop of a conservative fringe group that seems like just the kind of guy I’d like to have dinner with (provide I can bring an aluminum bat with me and use it at will, … Continue reading
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Ahmadinejad Jewish? Oy vey, Mahmoud…
Ahmadinejad’s ‘Jewish Family’ Mehdi Khazali, the son of the conservative Ayatollah Khazali, has written on his personal website that he recently learned that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots. Khazali notes that Ahmadinejad changed his family name from Saburjian, and … Continue reading
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Venezuela’s anti-Zionism: Sure looks like anti-Semitism
This really doesn’t look like anti-Zionism to me. “We don’t want Jews here” and “Jews get out” were the slogans daubed on a Caracas synagogue’s walls Saturday. David Bitan, vice president of the Jewish community in Venezuela, told Ynet that … Continue reading
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Swedes: Who cares about old, dead Jews when Gazans died last month?
See if you can follow this logic, because it’s pretty much escaping me. A town in Sweden has decided to cancel its Holocaust remembrance procession because of the Gaza war. A northern Swedish city has decided to cancel a planned … Continue reading
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Ob-eds
President Obama promised that his first trip abroad would be to a Muslim capital. He hasn’t traveled abroad yet, but he chose the Al-Arabiya satellite channel to grant his first interview since assuming office (via memeorandum). For its part here’s … Continue reading
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