I read today that McDonald’s is planning to build a huge branch across from Checkpoint Charlie. I really hope that the residents of Berlin will not allow that. I know how disgusted I feel when I see tourists glaring on the Holocaust Memorial while dipping their donuts in the dunking coffee. I am not saying [...]
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Can anyone pass me the kosher shrimp?
Posted in Germans and food, j-in-g on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A link to an article in Welt Am Sonntag
Posted in j-in-g on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a link to an article I have written about the movie “Manfred and Heinz” starting this week in Germany. http://www.welt.de/die-welt/kultur/literatur/article4639775/Out-of-Hoffenheim.html
The final solution (director’s cut)
Posted in j-in-g on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think that anyone who came up with the idea of giving Jews a state is a genius, someone who should every year get from the EU an honorary Noble prize. I mean, why do you have to spend time, workforce and paperwork sending people to the East if you can reward them with a [...]
A story for the new year
Posted in j-in-g on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About four years ago, while I was visiting Israel, my sister asked me to come to her house, saying that she really need to talk with me. I used to like going there: her family used to live in an agricultural place where cows and chickens were running in the backyard. I used to play [...]
The Jewish war in Hamburg
Posted in j-in-g on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/13815/the-jewish-question/
Jewish chutzpah
Posted in j-in-g on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Usain Bolt amazing record in the 100m? the unparalleled dominance of Keninisa Bekele? Yelena Isinbayeva failure to clear any height in the high vault competition? Forget it. The biggest story for me from the Athletic world championships in Berlin is the story of Israeli triple jumper Yohai Halevi. Here it is briefly: Halevi was arranged [...]
Mistaken Identity
Posted in j-in-g on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this this weekend for the week in review of Haaretz about the war of the Jews in Hamburg, where it was found that the former chairman of the Jewish community wasn’t Jewish at all and that the Rabbi who certified his Judaism wasn’t a Rabbi at all. Here’s a link in Hbebrew (I [...]