Cool Facts About Israel

With music...

AJC Ad in Today's Wall Street Journal

Very powerful. See and read the full ad here.

Alfred Hitchcok documentary on the Holocaust

Warning: Grisly images

WWII slave soldiers reunite after 64 years, prepare for honors

By Wayne Drash
CNN.com Senior Producer

ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- Samuel Fahrer and Sidney Lipson shake hands and smile. It's the first time the men have seen each other in 64 years. They were U.S. soldiers back on a forced death march in Nazi Germany in April 1945.

"How you doing?" Fahrer says.

It's a subdued moment for the two men. There are no tears, no pats on the back. The men have endured years of contained emotions from what happened six decades ago when they were prisoners of war and held as slaves inside Germany.

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Jewgle: Stop Searching and Call Your Mother

Click the links, then do a couple of searches.

Jewgle

Synagogues from Around the World and Israel

With musical accompaniment...

Mickey Katz sings "Duvid Crockett"

For the older folks in the audience and/or those who can understand a bit of Yiddish...

Jewish WAZZUP Commercial

If you haven't seen this before, it's very cute...

Jews In Space

In space no one can hear you scream. But can they hear you kvetch? Rabbis and academics are already concerning themselves with how Jews will live and thrive on other planets: how our concept of God might change and when we should light the Shabbos candles on Mars.

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The UN (humor)

The U.N. went into emergency session Monday to deal with North Korea's nuclear blast. The North Koreans could wage a nuclear attack on South Korea or sell the nuclear bombs to Syria or Iran. After six hours of heated debate, the U. N. voted unanimously to censure Israel for digging a tomato garden in the backyard of a duplex. --Argus Hamilton