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
The miracle of Sukkot
A sukkah may have saved a baby’s life. A 14-month-old baby from Bnei Brak was lightly injured Thursday when he fell from a third floor apartment window onto a sukkah, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The sukkah that broke the baby’s fall … Continue reading
Ahmadinejad in Christian lovefest
Score another propaganda victory for Mad Mahmoud. He sat down with a group of religious leaders—minus, I’m proud to say, a single Jewish religious leader—and lied, denied, and redirected the questions asked of him. But now he gets to brag … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Religion 10 Comments
Saudi ERA Watch: Women must stand to eat
Ah, those wacky Wahabbis! You just can’t beat the misogynistic regime of Saudi Arabia. Every time someone tries to tell me how free and liberated Muslim women are, compared to Western women, I have to laugh. Because Iranian women aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Religion 5 Comments
Israel vs. the terrorists
The IDF foiled what would have been a major terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv, on the holiest day of the year. A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Terrorism 6 Comments
G’mar hatima tova
An easy and meaningful fast to all my Jewish readers. This blog will be going dark until after my Saturday night break-fast. You wouldn’t want me blogging on an empty stomach, anyway. You have no idea how crabby I get … Continue reading
Faces of evil
Dara Mandle in Contentions Today, the New York Times makes available photographs obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the other side of Auschwitz: not the familiar images of starving prisoners, but new shots of vivacious German officers. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Israel, Jews 1 Comment
Israel’s problems are solved
That’s what I thought when I read the headline “Madonna: I’m an ‘ambassador for Judaism’“. Who better to represent the Jewish state than a Catholic born superstar from the 80’s who parades around the stage in her underwear? (via memeorandum) … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Jews, Pop Culture 5 Comments
Haveil Havalim #134 is UP!
Shameless self promoter that I am, I’m taking advantage of Meryl’s kindness to announce that Haveil Havalim #134 is UP at my place, Soccer Dad. This week’s edition features posts discussing Israel’s ongoing two front war, Walt and Mearsheimer, the … Continue reading
Saudi ERA Watch
Try not to laugh. Saudi women are fighting for the right to drive. It’s really not funny. It’s pathetic. Women in the only country in the world which still bans women from driving want to put their best foot forward … Continue reading
Shana Tovah
This is the time of year when I wish a sweet and happy and healthy new year to all of my Jewish friends and family. May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for nothing but good things this … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Jews 6 Comments
Once a year Jews
Worth reprinting in full. Question: I am a once a year Jew. I go to shul for the High Holydays, having not shown my face the entire year, and then disappear till next High Holydays. Do people like you think … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Religion 3 Comments
Haveil Havalim is up
It’s over at Life in Israel. Go look.
Israeli Double Standard Time, Temple Mount version
Say, remember that worldwide media blitz about how Israeli archeologists were going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque by building a new ramp to the Temple Mount? Remember the incredibly biased stories that insisted on minimizing the Temple Mount’s meaning to … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israeli Double Standard Time, Religion 6 Comments
CNN’s Jewish prejudice?
Funny. Christiane Amanpour’s moral equivalence-fest, the so-called “God’s Warriors” shows, were repeated both nights this weekend. And both times, the show that’s on first is “God’s Jewish Warriors.” It’s on at 9 p.m. Since it’s a two-hour show, next up, … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, Religion 5 Comments
Haveil Havalim
Our weekly Carnival of the Jews is up, over at Soccer Dad’s.