Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Remember a few years back when Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev could do no wrong. There was that gushing New York Times Magazine profile. A string of fancy eponymous jewelry boutiques across the globe. Net worth reports of between $4 billion and $8 billion. And an eye-popping portfolio of blue-chip properties throughout NYC and the world. [...]

As she tours Jerusalem’s holy Western Wall (above) before her first Tel Aviv concert tomorrow, Madonna is finding out that not all of Israel is so happy she’s landed. Indeed, the fervent Kabbalah fan is being attacked head on by one of Israel’s top Kabbalah rabbis who says Madonna is no Jew and has no [...]

The Hamas leadership in Gaza is vocally objecting to a plan to teach the Holocaust in local schools under a new plan set to be implemented by the United Nations. Indeed, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) — which is responsible for educating 200,000 students in the squalid Strip — is apparently set [...]

We spent a summer weekend last month in Atlantic City and the last thing we found it was Gay. Which is apparently not a good thing for New Jersey’s legendary destination of gambling and gaudiness — which needs to lure as many tourism dollars as possible as it suffers through the tough economy. So late [...]

So mean — but so funny — we can’t help loving the new website Peopleofwalmart. Launched earlier this month by a trio of trash-talking buddies, the site provides ongoing visual evidence of that physiological and sociological condition known as Walmart Customer Syndrome. They call them “Wal-Creatures” — so mean, but so clever. And the site [...]

We are totally loving “Sinead’s Hand” — a short clip made by MarriagEquality — to promote the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ireland. The clip, which was recently-released as a viral-marketing initiative, is witty, ironic, heart-warming, clever and — most crucially — smart! It follows a hopeful groom-to-be as he asks his entire town for [...]

Last time we checked in on Guy Oseary — Madonna’s long time manager — he was hating Al-Jazeera via Twitter. Now Jerusalem-born Oseary is back where it all began — for him, at least — in Israel where he is with Madonna who will perform in The Promised Land later this week. On a sad [...]

What, with the economy and all, it appears as if an increasing number of people are having a hard time affording both shelter AND clothing. Which is why they’re turning to nudism — and to Nakations! What’s a “nakation” — it’s a vacation to one of the dozens of nudist colonies now operating in the [...]

Even we were not paying close attention to THIS SUNDAY’S uber-historic election in the African nation of Gabon — in which locals will vote for a new president for the first time in 40 years! The ballot comes after the death of Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ruled Gabon for four decades before he passed away [...]

Comedian Sunda Croonquist is a half-Black/half-Swedish woman married to a Jew — and a convert to Judaism! Like many stand-up comics, she likes to use her family as fodder for her routines. Lots of her jokes center on her mother-in-law, Ruthie — who apparently was not 100 per cent happy her lawyer-son married a mixed-breed [...]