Sometimes I feel like my life can be compared to that of Job. Last night, moments before band practice, while reaching for my guitar, my back muscles completely spazzed out. Not very rock and roll of me. Needless to say the mandolin strumming and vox was off kilter. I went to the doc this morning and had a nice shot of voltarin (some sort of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory) in my buttocks. My back is still killing me and it looks like I’ll be spending the weekend on the couch. We were supposed to go skydiving tomorrow in the name of “Jewish unity” and “peace”, so it looks like that is no longer an option and the people of Israel will be in complete disarray until I am back on my feet.
This is awesome.! Gawker reports that Target has jumped on the Kabbalah bandwagon selling red string bracelets.
Get your red string right next to your Isaac Mizrahi sandals and your Todd Oldham lamp.
Freaking browser crashed after I wrote a long post about Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski’s cowtowing to the haredim.
Doesn’t really matter though because this article speaks for itself.
Please allow me to remind you that Jerusalem is the poorest city in the country and, believe it or not, majority of it’s residents are not religious.
Did I ever mention on this blog how happy I am not to be living there anymore?
Even, Ne’ar and Misparayim
Israel’s Second Television and Radio Authority are refusing to allow content provider Keshet to air a “Rock, Paper and Scissors” competition accusing the orgainizers of not providing a real program, but rather just an advertisement for Mei Eden water.
The franchisee, Keshet, was due to air a “Paper, Scissors, Rock” competition on August 5. But yesterday, it received a letter from authority director Mordechai Sklar that stated: “This event is the result of a marketing campaign by Mei Eden, and the commercial element in it is dominant. We believe that in filming an event of this size it is impossible to prevent significant exposure to Mei Eden. It is understood that the result of such exposure will be the harnessing of the entire event to the promotion of Mei Eden.”
Every freaking show on the state owned Channel 1 and Channel 2 are saturated with ads. Sometimes it’s as subtle as a yodvata chocolate milk bottle sitting on the table or more overt by being directly written into the script. My question is how did this program cross the line?
When Keshet first submitted the program, to be emceed by comedians Erez Tal and Shabi Zraya, for approval, it was reportedly presented merely as a competition, without reference to Mei Eden’s involvement. But only participants who have purchased Mei Eden are entitled to compete. A Mei Eden marketing executive noted that a “marketing rationale” was behind “a single winner in a competition for which no special skills are needed.”
Oh, I see. You need to purchase the water in order to compete. Fair enough. But what’s up with the comment about “rock, paper, scissors” competitors having no skills?
Israeli RPS chairman Shabi Zriya disagrees:
Zriya says RPS, considered by some as a forerunner of certain martial arts, is a game of strategy and technique. “It’s a war game with its own tactics,” he states. He can point his finger at different types, saying: “You can learn a lot about your opponents by the way they play. An aggressive person will throw a stone; if the person is cunning, scissors will appear; and if it’s a calm person who wants peace, he will be typified by paper more than anything else.”
Information about the World RPS Society can be found here.
It was supposed to be so easy…
I have mentioned in passing several times on this site about my arthritis. I suffer from a type of Rheumatism called Psoriatic Arthritis which is a lovely combo of Psoriasis and joint deterioration. Now, most people think of arthritis as an old person’s disease. It’s not. Arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the white cells get confused and attack healthy joints because they think that they are evil. It affects people of all ages. Anyway, I am currently being treated with a drug called Remicade. It’s an infusion that’s given in intervals of several weeks and pretty much puts the disease in remission.
So I am in the hospital today getting my fifth infusion when about ten minutes into the treatment I start to feel warm, get a tightness in my chest and have difficulty breathing. I started to freak out. The doc immediately stops the infusion, gives me a shot of hydrocortisone and an antihistamine and they throw an oxygen mask on my face. I started to feel better almost immediately and my doc said that we’ll continue the treatment in an hour. About twenty minutes later I started shivering uncontrollably from non-existent cold. My temperature was high as well as my blood pressure and I was brought over to a bed and the doc gave me a sedative of sorts directly into my IV line. The shivering immediately stopped when the liquid crack entered my bloodstream and I passed out. The wife came for support and the infusion which usually takes about 2 1/2 hours turned into a nine hour ordeal. So I slept pretty much all day at the hospital and and got home about six, went to bed and just woke up. I feel cracked out.
All this and I forgot to return the DVD I rented.
How was your day?
The Rooftop Report reports that breast augmented teenage actress/singer/ has-been by the age of 21, Lindsey Lohan (yeah, sure they are natural) was spotted wearing a mystical Kabbalah red string. Bigger photo at Defamer.
Loser. You paid 26 smackers for it. When the wife and I were at the Kotel last week she gave an eldery woman a buck and recieved a red string bracelet that was really blessed. We then proceeded to sell it to some naive birthright kid for twenty bucks and gave our profits to help fund Aish Hatorah’s new supercenter because Kirk Douglas ain’t gonna be around forever.
Whos is Lohan anyway? Where did she come from? I thought that Hilary Duff was the tween hero and it-girl? Or is that so yesterday?
Consider this an apology to Chris Noth. Detective Logan, please accept my sincere apologies for the disparaging remarks I a couple of days ago about your current trip to Israel. I now see that you do indeed support Israel and that there is more to your trip than just endorsing shampoo. And hey, if that dude who always wears white and never leaves the kotel can bless you…well, that is good enough for me.
Welcome to Israel.
I would also like to issue an apology to Dave of Israellycool. You were right. I was wrong. I humbly accept defeat.
Big aka Det. Mike Logan aka Chris Noth on a solidarity mission? Not exactly.
I understand that many are happy that yet another celebrity is visiting our holy land but let us put it in perspective. This trip is netting him 250,000 bucks for filming a freaking shampoo commercial!!!!
Who can blame him though cuz his film career doesn’t seem to be going all that well…
The Jamm turning Jerusalem youth onto Jesus?
Jesus Christ.
So it appears that Messianic Jews run a club called The Jamm at the Russian Compound. They host concerts that attract what they call “non-believers.”
I first heard of this joint several months ago when Yidcore came to Israel for a series of concerts. I hadn’t been to the Russian Compound in years. Pretty much since my wife, her cousins, my sister and two of my best friends were within several yards of of car bomb two days before my wedding. Anyway, the Russian Compound is so 1997. The real action is now down by Mamilla. Ok, Harry. Focus. Back to the issue at hand.
So a fellow musician happened to stop by The Jamm for their open mike night, clueless to the fact that they are Messianic Jews and played a song that basically reams religlion. He was getting dirty looks and the bad vibes were strong, so he left, grabbing some literature on the way out. The booklet was in Hebrew and had testimonies of Israeli teenagers who found Jesus.
Info about The Jamm can be found here.
A woman by the name of Beth Halle is a volunteer at The Jamm and writes the following on the website of her Messianic congregation:
One of the things I do with my time is I volunteer at a place called the Jamm. It stands for �Jerusalem Arts Media and Music�. The Jamm is a place in downtown Jerusalem that is a place for youth to come and hang out. It is owned and operated by believers. �Open mike night� and �punk rock night� draw unbelievers into the building. They can get a coffee or a chai and listen to music. My friends Nikki, from the college, and Chaim and Moshe, from Tel Aviv, played there at an open mike night last week.
I work on Monday nights. That is cell group night. It is a time of worship and discipleship for believing kids. Some kids have another congregation and some don�t. It is a place for them to hear the word of G-d. They sometimes bring their unbelieving friends to cell group.
One of the most important things I do at the Jamm is pray. Prayer is needed. These kids have tough lives. When you pray for Israel, remember the kids of Jerusalem. They are this country�s future leaders. Hold them in prayer.
It’s quite clear that this club was set up to recruit Israeli teenagers. They obviously have no qualms about it. Really classy. This is truly disgusting and something must be done about it. Perhaps I’ll attend an open mike night and sing a song that they’ll never forget. Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode? Dear God by XTC? It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls?
It’s anyone’s right to run a club, but The Jamm is being downright deceitful.
The Jerusalem Municipality has a link to this place on their site. I don’t think that Mayor Lupolianski would be too thrilled to know this, nor would his haredi cabinet. Nor would any Jewish parent be thrilled about their children hanging out there.
No to the brown people!
“Checkpoints? Why not? Roadblocks? Yes, definitely. Tire burning? If necessary, sure. Violence? Who knows?”
Yitzhak is ready to fight back: “We will now take things into our own hands and prove that the `hoity-toities’ are no longer like that. Don’t get us wrong. Everyone here dresses in white shirts and ties, but we intend to fight, because this is a battle for our way of life. We see it as a matter of principle. We’re passionate about it and we have no intention of giving in. We know how to use force, too.”
Comments by Palestinian insurgents? Nope. Just the wealthy folk who live in the elitist town next to mine complaining about the possible opening of a fence between the city of Modi’in and the village of Reut. The passageway will allow the children of Modi’in who are assigned to a school there arrive in a timely manner.
I could give two shits about this to be honest. No kids yet. And I’m sure they’ll figure all this crap out by the time my unborn children are roaming the streets. I just thought the above quotes were funny. Do rich people always get violent when they are threatened with the middle class moving in on their territory?
The word was that this would be the fourth largest city in Israel,” Fasi says, “that the population would reach 120,000. In practice, that hasn’t happened. The new immigrants didn’t exactly come. Instead, people from Ramla and Lod moved here and the new immigrants went there.”
“From every point of view we were a model community, untainted and without corruption,” says Shlomo Fasi from Reut, a brigadier general in the reserves, the CEO of Ordan, a computer software company, and chairman of the actions committee and the leading proponent for disengagement from Modi’in.
And just who are “the people from Ramla and Lod” he is talking about? Doesn’t take a Shas voter to figure out what he means by that…
The ironic thing about this whole controversy is that Reut is a liberal town. Only 25% voted for Likud in the last election and Meretz and Shinui received an overwhelming 67%.
If you are interested in reading about this oh so interesting topic, check out the Ha’aretz article.
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