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: Religion
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You can’t make this stuff up dept.: Okay, let’s be clear. When Israelis protested to the Turks that their portrayal of IDF soldiers as bloodthirsty murderers and rapists, the Turks said that it wasn’t meant to be harmful, and that … Continue reading
Queers for Palestine: They’re on the wrong side
So, let me get this straight—a gay Palestinian, who has been living in Israel with an Israeli partner for years, gets denied entry to Israel, can’t go back to his home town because he’s already been tortured by the Palestinian … Continue reading
The unbiased media, part the next
Say, take a look at this headline and tell me what kind of images it conjures up: Israeli police storm Jerusalem’s holiest site Holy crap! Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount? Really? Let’s see what the Israeli media have to … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Religion 4 Comments
Israeli Jew wins a Nobel, world boycott movement in shock
Go ahead, world. Boycott Israeli academic institutions. It totally makes sense, because it’s not like Israeli students will grow up to do Nobel-prize winning work or anything like that. Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, 70, was awarded the Nobel Prize for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Jews 20 Comments
Jews pray in Jerusalem; Arabs riot
What happens when Jews try to pray at their holy sites in Jerusalem on their holidays? Why, the tolerant Palestinian Muslims try to kill them. And the head of the Palestinian Authority, the ostensible Israeli peace partner, talks about not … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion 31 Comments
Best of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere #237
Every week we run a blog carnival called Haveil Havalim. It is a collection of the Best Posts of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. I am pleased to let you know that the 237th edition of the carnival is now live. As … Continue reading
G’mar hatima tova
An easy fast to my Jewish readers. May we be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life for a good and peaceful year. This will be the last blog post until tomorrow night, after I break my fast. I … Continue reading
L’shana Tovah
A happy and sweet New Year to all of the Jews who read my blog (and those who don’t).
Rosh Hashanahs past
The New York Times has a couple articles about past celebrations of Rosh Hashanah. In one article the Times tells about how Barbara Ann Paster relives what it was like to observe Rosh Hashanah in 1919 in Portsmouth New Hamphsire. … Continue reading
Muslim ERA Watch, Egypt version
Ladies of Egypt, rejoice! You can wear pants—BUT—they can’t be tight. Or see-through. Or stretch pants. Egypt’s top Islamic authority defended women’s rights to wear trousers in public following a high profile court case in neighboring Sudan were women were … Continue reading
J-Street: The lobby that isn’t
One of the things that struck me in the New York Times’ hagiography of J-Street is this quote: The average age of the dozen or so staff members is about 30. Ben-Ami speaks for, and to, this post-Holocaust generation. “They’re … Continue reading
Monday SNB
Yeah, sure. And you’ve perfected the flying carpet, too: Iran says it’s developed weapons systems that will intercept stealth missiles. I think I can still hear the peals of laughter from the Pentagon over this report. Hamas backs off on … Continue reading
Monday morning snark news briefs
The Talibanization of Gaza continues: Hamas is going to expel girls for not wearing head coverings and full-length robes to school. They’ve also begun to segregate the sexes. No icky boys teaching girls; no icky girls teaching boys. Anyone want … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Hamas, News Briefs, Religion, United Nations Tagged Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Israel 3 Comments
Zionists preparing to steal more organs
Uh-oh, world, watch out. Religious Jews, some of whom are generally reluctant to donate organs, have defined halacha (religious law) for organ donation. Now Jews will have a legal religious reason to steal organs from non-Jews. Palestinians, beware of waking … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Religion 1 Comment