How Dare Israel Declare Itself 'Jewish'

The new Israel Nation State Law is taking hits because it has declared Israel 'Jewish'.

Well...


1.

"national home for the Jewish people"

Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917

(Balfour was not Jewish)


2.

"The Arab State and Palestine in all their relations and undertakings shall be controlled by the most cordial goodwill and understanding, and to this end Arab and Jewish duly accredited agents shall be established and maintained in the respective territories."

Agreement between Emir Feisal Ibn al-Hussein al-Hashemi, and the President of the World Zionist Organization, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, January 3, 1919

(Feisal was not Jewish but a Muslim Arab. Weizmann was Jewish)


3.

 "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"

San Remo Resolution, April 25, 1920

(none of the Allied Powers representatives were Jewish)


4.

"recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country"

League of Nations, July 24, 1922

(none of the voting delegates, as far as I know, were Jewish)


5.

"The High Commissioner shall be guided by the statement of British policy in Palestine presented to Parliament by Our Command on the 1st day of July, 1922. While ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, he shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage close settlement by Jews on the land, 

Palestine Order in Council, August 10, 1922 

(the King of England was not Jewish)

6.

The mandatory Power shall use its best endeavours to ensure than an area situated in the territory of the Jewish State, including a seaport and hinterland adequate to provide facilities for a substantial immigration, shall be evacuated at the earliest possible date and in any event not later than 1 February 1948...Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in part III of this plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948. The boundaries of the Arab State, the Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem shall be as described in parts II and III below. The period between the adoption by the General Assembly of its recommendation on the question of Palestine and the establishment of the independence of the Arab and Jewish States shall be a transitional period.

United Nations General Assembly, November 29, 1947

(none of the voting delegates, as far as I know, were Jewish)


(h/t=RTB)


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Being A Jew Is...

I am just rephrasing Ernst Gellner's witty and intelleigent remark from his 1983 book, Nations and Nationalism, p. 107, which I found here, p. 27:-

Being a Jew is like being aware of sex or death: it is a reality always present,

you can't escape it, there are no known solutions and one finds people talking about

it as if it really wasn't there.

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Bob Geldof's Grandchild to Be A Cohen But Jewish?

Reported:-

Peaches Geldof is pregnant with her first child. The model and television presenter, 22, is expecting a baby with rocker fiancé Thomas Cohen, 20. Her spokeswoman said: 'Peaches Geldof and her fiancé Thomas Cohen are delighted to announce that Peaches is pregnant with their first child. 'Peaches is utterly thrilled and they have the full support of both of their families who are equally excited for the baby's arrival.' Peaches met Cohen four years ago and they announced their engagement on December 11.

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Jewish Trivia on CSI: Miami

Jonathan Togo was born on August 25, 1977 to Michael, a Ukranian-Jewish retired graphics designer and Sheila Togo, an Irish-Italian store owner. He was raised in Rockland, Massachusetts, attending Hebrew school as a child and graduating from Rockland High School in 1995.

Togo describes himself as "a little bit of a mutt. My mother is Italian and Irish and my father is Ukranian-Jewish," he says, noting that Togo was originally Tonkaviev, shortened by a grandfather in search of a catchier name for his carpet business. "I was raised as a Jew in a predominantly Irish-Catholic part of the country. We were extremely liberal Jews. I went to Hebrew school but we were middle and it costs money to join a synagogue, money we didn't always have. I was bar mitzvahed at 13 and basically never returned to the synagogue."

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Saul Bellow on Jewishness

...a Jewish writer could not afford to be unaware of his detractors. He had to thicken his skin without coarsening himself when he heard from a poet he much admired that America had become the land of the wop and the kike; or from an even more famous literary figure that his fellow Jews were the master criminals who had imposed their usura on long-suffering gentiles, that they had plunged the world into war, and that the goyim were cattle driven to the slaughterhouse by Yids. It was the opinion of the leading poet of my own generation that in a Christian society the number of unbelieving Jews must be restricted.

For a Jew, the proper attitude to adopt was the Nietzschean spernere se sperni, to despise being despised.

However disagreeable the phenomenon may seem at moments of sensitivity it is seldom more than trivial. The dislike of Jews was a ready way for WASP literati to identify themselves with the great tradition. Besides, it is something like a hereditary option for non-Jews to exercise at a certain moment when they discover that they have a born right to decide whether they are for the Jews or against them. (Jews have no such right.)

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There's A "Jewish Brad Pitt"?

Sometimes it is so, well, satisfying to be Jewish, well, almost Jewish.

Case in point:

Who is 'the Brad Pitt of Mexico'?

The one who gets to star in a video clip with Jennifer Lopez, the world's most beautiful woman?

Who is of Jewish lineage on his paternal grandfather's side, born in Cuba but who converted to Catholicism?

Answer:

William Levy who thinks that he had a blast working with Jennifer López in her new video "I'm into you.".

Does he look Jewish to you?

Actually, he looks like Jean-Paul Belmondo to me.

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The Jewish Spark, Muriel Spark

I think I blogged about this previously (yes, I did), but here, then, it is again:-

...Spark (whom Stannard familiarly, and annoyingly, calls Muriel throughout the book) was born in Edinburgh in 1918. Her father, Barney Camberg, was the son of Russian Jews; her mother, Sarah, known as Cissy, was raised as a Christian but agreed to be married in a synagogue. Neither was very religious, and what the family really worshipped was middle-class respectability. Barney, who worked in a rubber factory, came home to their rented flat every night, bathed and put on a suit and tie. He and Cissy liked to dance and entertain and take a drink. (Cissy, who may have been an alcoholic, admitted to going through a bottle of Madeira every day to steady her nerves.) Both parents made a point of sending their children (Muriel had an older brother) to fee-paying schools even if it meant taking in lodgers and banishing Muriel to a sofa in the kitchen.

Spark went to James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, where she came under the influence of an eccentric, charismatic teacher named Christina Kay, the model for the title character in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” (The original, who was stocky and had a mustache, sounds less glamorous than her fictional counterpart but shared Brodie’s habit of speaking in non sequiturs and her love of Mussolini.) Unable to afford university, Spark left school at 16, took a course in précis-writing at a secretarial college and went to work at a fashionable department store. She always had disastrous taste in men, and at 19 she married Sydney Oswald Spark (or S.O.S., as she later referred to him), a math teacher and nonobservant Jew 13 years her senior, who promised her a new life in what was then Southern Rhodesia.

The wedding night, Spark later said, was a “botch-up,” and so was the rest of the marriage. S.O.S, who was mentally unstable to begin with, became violent and abusive. They soon separated, and in 1943 Spark, who by then had a 4-year-old son, Robin, divorced her husband. It was forbidden to transport children during the war, so she parked the boy in an African convent school and returned on her own to Scotland. Robin didn’t make it home until he was 7, and by then Spark had embarked on a new life as a struggling writer in England. She left his upbringing to her mother and, intermittently, to her ex-husband, who raised him as a Jew...The transforming event of these years was Spark’s conversion to Catholicism in 1954...

...Predictably, Spark and her son grew estranged, especially after Robin embraced Orthodox Judaism, and she cut him out of her will.

Well, At Least Kagan Isn't Attacked Becaue She's Jewish (or Is She?)

Elena Kagan, Jewish, US Soliciter-General, was suspected of being a lesbian but:

The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made assertions about the sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.

Ben Domenech, a former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer, wrote that President Obama would "please" much of his base by picking the "first openly gay justice." An administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personal matters, said Kagan is not a lesbian.

...The network deleted the posting Thursday night after Domenech said he was merely repeating a rumor. The flare-up underscores how quickly the battle over a Supreme Court nominee -- or even a potential nominee -- can turn searingly personal. Most major news organizations have policies against "outing" gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.

Well, at least it's not because she's Jewish that she's being attacked.

Shall we be thankful for small favors?

No, as she is being attacked:

Further, President Obama should consider that Ms. Kagan is Jewish and there are already two Jewish Justices on the Supreme Court. For the first time in the history of the court, fifty-one percent of the population will not have a Justice of their religious preference on the bench if she is selected. It will be the first time in United States Supreme Court history that a Protestant is not sitting on the Supreme Court bench. The question the citizens should be asking is, "Why would President Obama want to appoint another Jewish person to the bench when that faith only represents 1.7% of the population?" Does he not think that the Protestants who represent 51% of the population have a right to have a representative on the United States Supreme Court?

Was JDSalinger Jewish or A "Jew"?

Here's and excerpt from the New York Times' obituary on JD Salinger:

Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan on New Year’s Day, 1919, the second of two children. His sister, Doris, who died in 2001, was for many years a buyer in the dress department at Bloomingdale’s. Like the Glasses, the Salinger children were the product of a mixed marriage. Their father, Sol, was a Jew, the son of a rabbi, but sufficiently assimilated that he made his living importing both cheese and ham.

As it is fairly rare to see someone described as a Jew, unless as in a quotation, in the NYT, one wonders why that wasn't written as "Jewish", the more usual term.

Words Worth Quoting

Judaism is not liberal and it is not conservative; it is Jewish. But this is the
beginning of the matter, not the end. For Judaism is immense and various: it
holds within itself an oceanic plenitude of opinions and tendencies, developed
over 2,000 years of philosophical and legal deliberation, and they do not all go
together. To say that a view is Jewish is to claim a provenance more than an
essence.

Leon Wiseltier

That's Jewish?

In general, Jewish identity at Wesleyan has been less notable for its emphasis on ethnic or religious solidarity than on qualities that have come to be associated with a different kind of Jewish cultural identity in America - activist liberal politics, intellectualism and a freewheeling brand of creativity. That description could have extended to Justin-Jinich. A New York Times article said Justin-Jinich was Jewish but quoted a former roommate as saying she regarded herself as "agnostic and politically liberal." "That's Jewish!" Zwelling exclaimed. He added that the profile of the "typical" Wesleyan student - intellectual, elite and well-heeled - though perhaps not entirely accurate, overlaps to a great extent with the image of the young Jewish suburbanites who do, in fact, attend such universities as Wesleyan.

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Jewish, Out; East European, In

Shhhh.

Don't mention the word "Jewish" too often in the NYTimes, Mark Bittman.

Not even in recipes:-

in fact the very qualities of kasha that make it unappealing elsewhere — its grassiness, its too-soft texture — are the same ones that vault kasha varnishkes to the highest ranks of Eastern European cooking.

But in Bitten's blog (here), he writes:

Today’s Minimalist column and video, about kasha varnishkes, the Eastern European Jewish thing I grew up eating

Viva la difference!

Dying as a Jew

Yonatan Eldar הי"ד died as a Jew.

Bent over his Gemara, he was shot almost point-blank in the chest. The blood-soaked pages of the Talmudic tome were buried with him.

And then, I read this:-

There are few sadder or more frantic pieces of literary exegesis than the surviving draft of a letter written by Michel Epstein to the German ambassador in occupied France on July 27, 1942 — two weeks after the arrest of Epstein’s 39-year-old wife, the novelist Irène Némirovsky. Desperate for her return, Epstein points out to the ambassador that the Russian-born Némirovsky had lived in France for 20 years and that while her grandparents may have been Jewish, she herself is a Roman Catholic. Epstein does not mention that he and Némirovsky had converted to Catholicism only three years earlier, hoping to gain some security against the threat posed by Hitler.

He does, however, grasp at a literary straw, informing the ambassador that Némirovsky’s books contain not “a single word against Germany” and that in them his wife “does not speak of the Jews with any affection whatsoever.” A day after drafting his letter, Epstein recalls another bit of his wife’s exculpatory prose and rushes to draw it to the attention of her publisher : “I think that in ‘David Golder,’ the chapter where David does a deal with the Bolsheviks to buy oil rights cannot be seen as very kindly towards them.”

Nothing Epstein tried had a prayer of working. Némirovsky would die at Auschwitz in a matter of weeks, and he himself would be murdered there before the year was out.

It takes all kinds.

Cosmopolitan Girl

Does Natalie Portman think there are also stabilising advantages in belonging to an ethnic minority?

“Absolutely. I identify very strongly as Jewish, but I could be Indian, Puerto Rican . . . Anything that gives you a cultural identity makes you know who you are and grounds you, even as a young girl trying on identities.”

And, while we are being Jewish:-

And, of course, while Portman is famously Jewish, Johansson is a lesser-known Jew (because of her Scandinavian father, she’s called “the kosher Danish”). When Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek made a movie together, all the headlines blared “the Hot Tamales”. What should the media label a film starring two Jewish girls? Portman doesn’t miss a beat.

“The Hot Knishes,” she says, referring to the Jewish delicacy.

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Little Known Fact Corner

Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian-born, is director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Did you know that:-

He's the eldest of five children from an upper-middle-class family in Cairo; that he grew up with a French nanny and had a private school education; that at 19, he became the national youth champion in squash; that he studied law and joined the foreign service, eventually serving in New York;

and that

While working on his doctorate on international law at New York University, he went to New York Knicks basketball games and to the Metropolitan Opera, and stayed up late talking American politics and drinking wine in Greenwich Village bars. His first girlfriend, he said, was Jewish.

Books-a-Minute

Excerpts from:
Star Search
By RACHEL DONADIO

Over three evenings last month, several dozen writers gathered in the airy sanctuary of Hebrew Union College for a bizarre rite of passage: the Jewish book tour casting call. In a combination of “The Gong Show” and speed-dating, they each had two minutes to pitch their books to the Jewish Book Network, 100 cultural programmers from Jewish community centers, or J.C.C.’s, synagogues and libraries nationwide. An M.C. ruthlessly held up a sign when one minute was up and cheerily announced “on deck” to prepare the next speaker.

Joyce Antler, a professor at Brandeis University, presented “You Never Call! You Never Write!,” her academic history of the Jewish mother, while Dr. Loren Fishman talked up “Sciatica Solutions.” Martin Lemelman pushed his memoir, “Mendel’s Daughter,” with the promise “I could come to your J.C.C. with a PowerPoint presentation to explain how I came to write ... about the well that saved my mother’s life in the forests of Poland.” M. J. Rose explained that her novel “The Reincarnationist” stemmed from her deep belief in reincarnation and marked a departure from her “very sexual nine previous novels.” Two British Jewish novelists, Howard Jacobson and Charlotte Mendelson, riffed on how America “gets” Jews while England doesn’t. Meanwhile, programmers took notes on the authors’ book topics — and sense of humor, stage presence, poise and, probably, hairlines.

With its wild shifts in tone and quality, the annual conference offered a chaotic cross-section of American Jewish life — and of the current state of publishing. Holocaust memoirs vied for time with cookbooks and diet books, books on how to pray and why not to pray, books on motorcycles, punk rock and drug addiction, first novels and graphic novels, nonfiction reportage and novels with soft-porn covers.

The auditions and centralized tours were the brainchild of Carolyn Starman Hessel, who has become a formidable power in the publishing industry in her 13 years as the director of the Jewish Book Council, which runs the Jewish Book Network.

Authors routinely say audience members seem less interested in their books than in marrying them off. “I have been asked, ‘Are you single?’ at nearly every event, and despite answering that I am married, have then sat through the parade of eligible Jewish men in most towns,” said Jennifer Gilmore, who toured with her first novel, “Golden Country.”

Jewish-Christian Dialogue

While googling around for the name Shiloh, I came across a Christian site that discussed the events of Shiloh and I sent out this message:-

As I live in Shiloh, the original Shiloh in Israel, I am happy to see you discussing spiritual concepts related to the site of the Tabernacle.

And I received a reply:-

It's amazing how deep the Scriptures are with all these references and types foreshadowing Christ.

To which I answered:-

or another

Which elicited this reaction:-

None can compare to Christ

So, I wrote back:-

well, if you mean that as a generic term or as a translation for Messiah, I'm in agreement.

And then Troy insisted:-

No it is not a generic term. Jesus is a real person and God as proven.

The moment had come. I had to be blunt:-

As I am Jewish, I respect your religious beliefs but they are not mine.
As Hannah already prayed here at Shiloh, "There is none holy as the LORD, for there is none beside Thee; neither is there any rock like our God." I Samuel 2:2.

That didn't sit too well with Troy who responded:-

Then you are going to hell. The LORD in 1 Sam. 2.2 therefore, effectively is not the one you worship, for you reject Him who is your sacrifice to atone for your sins (Is. 53). God gave Himself for you, and you reject this mercy through His only begotten Son-the suffering servant!

I attempted to be moderate:-

I really thought we were having a decent theological conversation. Please, don't threaten me with hell. After all that has been done in the name of a nice Jewish boy from Judea to the Jewish people over the past two millenia, I don't think any Christian today has any right to threaten a Jew with hell.
You need not reply.

It didn't help:-

I am not threatening you with hell but imparting to you the fact of the Scriptures what is going to happen to you. If you are a Jew or from any other nation that calls Jesus a liar, you are going to hell. That is why I am convinced you're going to hell. I am just being honest with you by the evidence God has provided. You don't have to reply. Just give your life to Christ to be saved. There is no other way to the Father except through Christ. My prayers go out to you.

I stopped the "dialogue" at that point.

Jewish Female Humor Falls, er, Flat

A review:-

Jewish Women Joking, and Nodding to the Past

Intermittent pleasure mingles with persistent illustration of the excruciating arduousness of stand-up comedy in “The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy,” which began an open-ended run at the Actors Temple Theater on Wednesday night.

Part showcase for its four stars, part salute to the female comics who achieved renown in the post-World War II years, this 95-minute intermissionless show is a mixed blessing.

Alternating routines by Cathy Ladman, Jessica Kirson, Jackie Hoffman and Cory Kahaney with delightful filmed clips from performances by its designated “Queens of Comedy,” including Betty Walker, Jean Carroll, Totie Fields and Belle Barth, the show bats about .400.

For baseball players that’s a super average. For comics it means there is plenty of room for improvement. For audiences it means laughs along with longueurs.

Combing intelligence and spleen, Ms. Hoffman, as usual, delivers an admirable performance. Recycling some material from her justifiably popular and bilious winter performances at Joe’s Pub, she also has the true jester’s audacity to spin timely humor out of the Don Imus uproar, sing nastily about Upper West Side women and speculate on the joys of quaffing the contents of the drain of a George Foreman grill.

Ms. Ladman and Ms. Kahaney have their moments. Ms. Ladman mines a History Channel remark about the relationship between Hitler and Eva Braun for a bright analysis of her marriage, but some of her other material fails to rise beyond the obvious. Ms. Kahaney is at her best in eviscerating her relationship with her father through her “sister,” adopted by him through a television appeal, and in her imitation of a Madison Avenue salesgirl from Israel. But her reflections on teenage children and the dating habits of Jews and gentiles lack novelty.

Ms. Kirson’s repeated comments on the audience’s failure to respond to her routine made clear the need for revision of the material.

Sometimes the fault is in the stars.

I Don't Believe It - Shia LaBoeuf??? Bar Mitzvahed???

Yes, Shia (like in short for either Yeshayahu or Yehoshua).

Shia LaBeouf (pronounced "Shy-uh La-Buff" [6]) was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Jeffrey LaBeouf, a former mime [7] and circus and rodeo clown [8] who "drifted" from job to job, and Shayna Saide, a dancer and ballerina [6] turned visual artist; [9] his maternal grandfather was a comedian who worked in the Borscht Belt of the Catskill Mountains. [10] LaBeouf has said that he comes from "five generations of performers" and was "acting when I came out of the womb". [9] LaBeouf's father is a Cajun (once described by LaBeouf as a "Ragin' Cajun") [9] and his mother is Jewish, [11][12][13] and LaBeouf was raised in the Jewish religion [14] and became a Bar Mitzvah. [15]

6 Garcia, Chris. "Next project could transform Shia LaBeouf into son of Indy", Austin360, 2007-04-12. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
7 Lemire, Christy. "Shia LaBeouf: ‘I’m sick of being a boy’", Canton Repository, 2007-04-13. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
8 Woulfe, Molly. "All grown up, Shia spouts off on 'Disturbia'", NW Times, 2007-04-13. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
9 Koltnow, Barry. "Watching the moves", OC Register, 2007-04-13. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
10 Strickler, Jeff. "'Disturbia' actor still just a kid", Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2007-04-12. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
11 Strauss, Bob. "Shia LaBeouf has come a long way in Hollywood", Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 2007-04-07. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
12 Thomas, Karen. "'Holes' may mean a real opening for Shia LaBeouf", USA Today, 2003-04-20. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
13 Shady, Bethany. "SHIA LaBEOUF", Tastes Like Chicken, 2/02. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
14 Bloom, Nate. "Interfaith Celebrities: Shia the Mensch", Interfaithfamily.com, 2007-04-10. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.
15 O, Jimmy. "INT: Shia LaBeouf", JoBlo.com, 2007-04-11. Retrieved on 2007-04-13.

I found him here:-

After months of building Internet buzz, this can finally be reported as fact: Shia LaBeouf has been cast in the upcoming "Indiana Jones" movie.

Producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg announced Friday that LaBeouf will appear alongside Harrison Ford in the fourth installment of the adventure franchise, scheduled for release May 22, 2008. Production is set to begin in June.

"We are excited about bringing Shia into our Indy family," Spielberg said in a statement on the "Indiana Jones" Web site. "His talent has impressed not only his audiences throughout his young career but the directors, producers and fellow actors who have worked with him in his television career and now his film career."

Paramount, a division of Viacom Inc., declined Friday to say what role LaBeouf would be playing.

The 20-year-old actor told The Associated Press in March that the persistent Internet rumors about his casting in the film were just that -- rumors.

"The way that thing started, it's just wild how it snowballed," LaBeouf told the AP then. "I don't have a deal on the table, it's just a rumor. Would I do it? In a second. It'd be working for a legend and working with legends. Who wouldn't? But is it something I'm doing right now? No. I'm an out-of-work actor."

It's a busy weekend for the up-and-coming actor. He stars in "Disturbia," a high-tech, teen version of "Rear Window," which opened Friday; then he's hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday.

LaBeouf also co-stars in this summer's "Transformers" movie for Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures, and provides the voice of one of the penguins in the animated "Surf's Up." His previous films include "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and "Holes." He also won a Daytime Emmy in 2003 for the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens."

and here:-

Starring Shia LaBeouf as a housebound teenager who suspects a neighbor (David Morse) of murder, "Disturbia" continued a solid year for DreamWorks Pictures, whose No. 1 hits include "Blades of Glory" and "Norbit."

"We're kind of hoping this could be habit-forming," DreamWorks spokesman Marvin Levy said. (Watch Mr. Moviephone give his take on this week's new films )

"Disturbia" launches a breakout year for LaBeouf, whose long-rumored casting in the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie was confirmed Friday by producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg, one of the founders of DreamWorks. (Review)

This summer, LaBeouf provides the lead voice for Sony's animated penguin comedy "Surf's Up" and stars in the science-fiction saga "Transformers."

"The person you want to be right now is Shia LaBeouf. I want to be Shia LaBeouf. I want to be 20 and have all this happening to me. It's really great for him," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "2007 is Shia's year. He proved he can open a movie all by himself."

Poor boy. Not only is he Jewish but look what they do with his name:-

by Achalemoipas on 3/14/07
In French "Shia Labeouf" sounds like "shit the food".

by Spartan2100 on 3/14/07
Actually, "shit* in French is "merde" and laboeuf would closely translate to "the beef." So I'm not sure how Shia Laboeuf sounds like "shit the food" in French. At best, it would sound like "Shia the Beef."

by Achalemoipas on 3/14/07
Nice that you would comment about a language you don't speak.
Shia sounds like the french verb chier, which means to shit. Labeouf does not sound like "le boeuf". It's sounds like "la bouffe" which means food. Merde is not a verb, it's a noun. As in "je chie de la merde dans ta face espèce d'inapte."

Letting Kahane Have His Say

A few of those commenting here have been desirous that I be further "right", on the political spectrum, that is. If I have not adopted their outlook, I'm less-than-good.

They have also criticized me for positions I have held in the past, positions they thought I held in the past, positions I didn't hold in the past and other positions I hold at present or do not.

Below is a copy of an op-ed Rabbi Meir Kahane published in a defunct, sorrowfully so, daily called The Nation that appeared for a year or so in the late 80s although I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact details.

I give him room here on an issue that is recently in the news:-