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: Israel
Virginia and Israel: Perfect together
Richmond, Virginia—my home since 2002—is smart enough to know where the smart money in science is: Richmond is actively recruiting Israeli science and research firms. Like college sports scouts eyeing fresh stars from the sidelines, officials from the Virginia BioTechnology … Continue reading
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Dissident democracy
When it comes to spreading democracy Natan Sharansky has famously called President Bush a “dissident.” There are two distinct marks of a dissident. First, dissidents are fired by ideas and stay true to them no matter the consequences. Second, they … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #139 is up!
Haveil Havalim #139 is up at the award winning (OK award nominated) Mother in Israel. Read about Australia invades Be’er Sheva! Where does fair use end and stealing begin (on buses and with CD’s)? Egypt refuses Jewish help! 90 years … Continue reading
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Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
Israel Matzav does a great and thorough job discussing the history and importance of the Balfour Declaration from November 2, 1917. The Palestine Post had this to say at the 25th anniversary, during the depths of the Holocaust: Notice how … Continue reading
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‘Al Jazeera’: US Air Force carried out raid on Syrian nuke site
Just heard it on the radio, and here it is, already on Jpost: The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab … Continue reading
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Bunker buster request
It’s not just that Hezbollah has re-armed, it’s influence is being seen in Israel’s south too. Hamas is apparently beefing up its border defense (and probably offensive capabilities too) in a manner reminiscent of its allies in the north of … Continue reading
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We’ve got a mighty envoy
Michael Hirsch of Newsweek, fresh off of mocking Rudolf Giuliani’s foreign policy team and misidentifying them, now has a solution to the problems in the Middle East. The President needs an envoy. A peace envoy. See if you can figure … Continue reading
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Big Satan, little Satan and the radical Left
Radical left publication Tikkun, a heavy critic of Israel and America, prints a review by Stephen Zunes that finds “The Israel Lobby” to be complete garbage. Zunes’ argument is that America’s policies are so reprehensible in total that blaming the … Continue reading
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Aiding … and abetting
The Washington Post reports Aid Request Emphasizes U.S. Support of Palestinian Authority Leadership. At least it doesn’t say that it shows U.S. support of peace. Since Hamas seized Gaza, the Bush administration has sought to demonstrate support for Palestinian Authority … Continue reading
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Celebrity blogging
Ha’aretz has an article about (Israeli) celebrity bloggers. One day last summer, while whizzing along a highway in the Galilee panhandle and listening to a Miri Mesika anthology, a blogger by the online name of Michlula got the fright of … Continue reading
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Bush offers a half-billion for the “moderate” terrorists
From the Washington Post: President Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East … Continue reading
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Diogenes of the Middle East
In a controversial essay in the LA Jewish Journal Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asks to Consider a divided Jerusalem. After acknowledging the controversial nature of his views and getting a few formalities out of the way, he says he seeks honesty. … Continue reading
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Gaza switch-off and armchair generals
Seth Freedman has, in his endearingly provocative manner, slapped together another piece for CiF. As in most of his other articles, the recipe was simple: take one side of the Israeli/Palestinian strife, ignore all that is not black and white … Continue reading
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Googling terror
Last week several bloggers noted a Guaridan story that terrorists in Gaza were using Google Earth to target locations in Israel. So when I saw this item, I thought, “Oh good, Google has responded to the concerns.” A tipster to … Continue reading
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Hamas to Israel: We’re going to keep on killing
The democratically-elected government of the Palestinian terrortories[sic] is declaring its intention to murder large numbers of Israelis and, indeed, to start an “offensive war” with Israel (like they’re not already doing that). Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing, … Continue reading
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