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
Muslim ERA watch
Pakistan is introducing a bill to ban forced marriages, including the ones that use women as a payment to settle feuds. Pakistan’s ruling party on Tuesday introduced a bill to outlaw forced marriages, including under an ancient tribal custom in … Continue reading
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Temple Mount ramp: Good news/bad news edition
First the good news: The AP has continued to correctly identify the Temple Mount’s importance to Jews. The disputed hilltop site is home to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the third-holiest site in Islam. The compound, built atop the ruins … Continue reading
Changing the wire services, one story at a time
Yesterday, after reading several days’ worth of AP and Reuters articles incorrectly identifying Judaism’s holiest site as the Westen Wall, I sent an email to each of the services. Here’s the one the AP received: Dear editor, The AP is … Continue reading
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Fixed in AP
I wrote to AP and Reuters yesterday about the errors they made in describing the Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest site. Fixed in AP: The Old City hilltop compound has been a catalyst for earlier rounds of Israel-Palestinian fighting. It … Continue reading
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How the world media minimizes Israel’s Jewishness
I thought I’d see what Google News had to show me about the number of media outlets correctly proclaiming the Temple Mount Judaism’s holiest site. I used the exact search phrase “Judaism’s holiest site.” Here’s what came up: The AP, … Continue reading
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Gee, I didn’t see that coming
Arab Israeli leaders are crying to the UN that big, bad Israel is ruining their mosque. Yes, let’s spread the lie and make a General Assembly resolution, or better still, bring it to the new Human Rights Commission, which has … Continue reading
CNN joins the Temple Mount bandwagon
CNN tries to get it right, but once again emphasizes the Muslim ties to the Temple Mount and ignore Judaism’s. JERUSALEM (CNN) — An Israeli-Arab legislator Friday helped negotiate an end to a standoff between Palestinians and police at a … Continue reading
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The AFP joins the “Downplay the holiness of the Temple Mount to Jews” party
The AFP has done the expected and also downplayed the significance and holiness of the Temple Mount to Jews. That’s three for three. Time to check for UPI’s version. The site, venerated by Muslims as the third holiest site in … Continue reading
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The AP minimizes Judaism’s holiest site
The AP joins Reuters in downplaying the holiness of the Temple Mount to the world’s Jews. Find for me, please, the part in the lede that identifies the Temple Mount as either the site of the two Temples, or Judaism’s … Continue reading
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Blame the father, not the children
This is wrong. The children of an Austrian rabbi who attended an Iranian conference that questioned the Holocaust have been expelled from their school and told no other Jewish school in Austria will take them, their father said Tuesday. Moishe … Continue reading
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I won in Jeopardy: Haveil Havalim
I have beaten Weird Al Yankovic, as well as Yehudit and Dave. This week’s Haveil Havalim is a Jeopardy quiz, and I won. Ha!
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The myth of Islam and tolerance
Palestinian Christians are finally coming out and admitting what we’ve known for a very long time: They’re being harassed and driven out by the Muslim population of the terrortories[sic]. A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their … Continue reading
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Muslim ERA watch: Another dishonor killing
A Jordanian man murdered his daughter even after she had a medical exam that proved she was a virgin. A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her … Continue reading
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A 77-year-old Bar Mitzvah boy
A Holocaust survivor celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on Monday, 64 years after he should have. The Jewish community in Rome celebrated on Monday with 77-year-old Samuel Modiano on the occasion of his Bar-Mitzvah. Modiano, a member of the community, was … Continue reading
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A glimpse of life for Jews in an Islamic state
If you want to know how Jews would be treated in the so-called “binational” state of Isratine, take a look at how Yemeni Jews are being treated today by their Muslim overlords: Jewish residents of the Saada region in northern … Continue reading
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