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
Daled class line games
Yesterday was our last Sunday before winter break. The last hour was going to be interrupted by a Chanukah party, so I tried to get everything tied up early this morning. The children were alert and eager, one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Religion 6 Comments
Jackie Mason beats FauxJews for Jesus
Jackie Mason sued the FauxJews for using his likeness in their conversion literature. He agreed to a settlement. Too bad. He should have taken them to the cleaners. Mr. Mason, the stand-up comedian whose act often includes pithy observations about … Continue reading
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Muslim ERA watch
Hey, check it out! Saudi Arabian women are now allowed to sell cars! Except, well, when you read it, you see that they are only selling cars to other women. Which is a pretty bad deal, what with women still … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Religion 2 Comments
Lazy Richmond
Sorry, but I don’t have anything for you today. This post is just filler. Actually, it’s likely because I’m in the middle of yet another former student’s Bar Mitzvah. Last night, I helped contribute to the delinquency of a minor … Continue reading
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Michael Richards: Not a Jew.
Toldja so. He’s not Jewish. Which makes him even more of a bigot, what with now also being charged with anti-Semitic rants as well. Last week, crisis-management expert Howard Rubenstein acknowledged that Richards had shouted anti-Semitic remarks in an April … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Religion 2 Comments
Gay rights in Israel: Yeah, we’ve got that
Israel’s Supreme Court has just ruled that the state must recognize gay marriage. That would make Israel, let’s see, um, the one and only state in the Middle East where being gay is not only not illegal, but now gays … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion 39 Comments
Let us be clear on the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
The Haredi should STFU about the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. Last I checked, Israel was not a theocracy. Last I checked, religious Jews weren’t extremist Muslims. Tell me how the behavior of the Haredi protesting the Gay Pride Parade … Continue reading
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Another towering achievement of FSB – the shroud talks!
More than hundred years of experience (if you count FSB’s predecessors such as Okhranka, Cheka, NKVD and KGB) are not to be trifled with. After all, who else mastered to such perfection the ancient art of persuasion that requires infinite … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Satire 6 Comments
Friday Muslim news
Friday’s a good day for news about those tolerant, feminist Muslims. First, let’s take a look at Yvonne Ridley’s claim that Islam is more feminist than the American feminist movement of the 1970s. I’m thinking not. Women Under Attack in … Continue reading
How I learned to lie about Islam
Yvonne Ridley, the woman who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and ultimately converted to Islam (one’s mind does immediately jump to “Stockholm Syndrome,”) waxes poetic—and untruthfully—about the equality of women under Islam. Here’s my favorite part: A careful … Continue reading
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That famous religious tolerance strikes again
So, how tolerant are the world’s other religions about Judaism? So tolerant that Jewish organizations had to help Ethiopian Jews steal their own Torah scrolls in order to save them from being taken by non-Jews. Two torah scrolls, which the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Religion 10 Comments
Recovering Torahs from the Nazis
Randolph, NJ, a small town in Morris County, is getting a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust intact—a rare scroll, indeed. Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg is completing some unfinished business as he helps World War II’s last emigrants come to … Continue reading
Ambition shines bright in Iran. Up to a point.
Robert Tait of The Observer sometimes produces interesting articles about Iran and its frequently ugly reality of religious and political oppression. This time, however, he has chosen a light and playful approach. Two different persons, both looking for success in … Continue reading
Wafa Sultan: You go, girl
There are many who say that Wafa Sultan has very little influence in the Muslim world because she is a woman, and an apostate. I would venture to say they are misinformed. Since then, she has been banned by the … Continue reading
The tyranny of the minority
For those of you who don’t listen to the SNN podcast every week, this is my contribution from Sunday: I’m sure you’ve all heard the phrase, “tyranny of the majorityâ€. My topic today is the tyranny of the minority—specifically of … Continue reading
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