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Nov. 6, 2009
Rabbi Berel Wein: Choosing to hear
JWisdom.com Zero to 1/60th: How
to Empower An Hour with Gavriel Aryeh Sande (7 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick The mullahs' big week
Suzanne Fields A Fallen Wall for Fallen Man
Nov. 5, 2009
The Kosher Gourmet: Three scrumptious -- but simple -- butternut squash dishes
JWisdom.com Hidden Hints: Unlocking
Faith & Prayer with Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz (10 minutes)
Nov. 4, 2009
Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger: Should prayers be covered?
JWisdom.com When God played peacemaker
With Rabbi Sroy Levitansky (5 minutes)
Nov. 3, 2009
Martin Peretz: Beware, Barack. Beware,
Rahm. Beware, Axelrod
JWisdom.com Are you are closet idolater?
With Sara Yoheved Rigler (10 minutes)
Nov. 2, 2009
Paul Greenberg: The Holocaust is now on Facebook
JWisdom.com Abraham's Strange Change
With Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer (5 minutes)
Oct. 30, 2009
Rabbi David Aaron: Secret to Immortality
Caroline B. Glick Silencing dissent in America
Oct. 29, 2009
Lini S. Kadaba: Do tactics avert flu
or reduce humanity?
JWisdom.com We Must Revamp our
Religious Vocabulary With Gavriel Aryeh Sanders ( 10 minutes)
Oct. 28, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Atheists in Bubbleland
JWisdom.com Why what we wear
impacts who we are
With Rabbis Mordechai Becher, Menachem Golberger and Aliza Bulow ( 10 minutes)
Oct. 27, 2009
Paul Greenberg: The United Nations Is Outraged Again, Or: Department of Mideast Static
JWisdom.com The Science of Love
With Rabbi Jonathan Rietti ( 7 minutes)
Oct. 26, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist
by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Damaging disclosures with a twist
JWisdom.com Wisdom and Wonks
With Rabbi Eytan Feiner ( 7 minutes)
Oct. 23, 2009
Rabbi David Aaron: Are you ready for the ultimate pleasure?
JWisdom.com Watermark and oneness
with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 4 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick Stop using limited powers in a way that expands our enemies' advantages over us
Oct. 22, 2009
Steven Emerson: Terror Cases Share Desire to Kill Americans
JWisdom.com No More More Family Fights --- Really?
By Sarah Chana Radcliffe ( 5 minutes)
Oct. 21, 2009
Tonya Alanez: Holocaust denier sues survivor, calling Auschwitz memoir 'vicious lies'
JWisdom.com Meditating Jewishly: A
Panacea for Success by Sarah Yoheved Rigler ( 7 minutes)
Oct. 20, 2009
Dennis Prager: Obama and Dalai Lama: Why Israel Worries about U.S. President
JWisdom.com Abraham was not religious
By Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer ( 6 minutes)
Oct. 19, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist
by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q. Is nepotism kosher?
JWisdom.comWhy Good People Do Bad Things
By Rabbi Eytan Feiner ( 7 minutes)
Oct. 16, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Perfect Number
JWisdom.com Hearing Voices
By Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 5 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick How Turkey was lost
Oct. 15, 2009
Jeff Jacoby: Peace vs. the 'peace process'
JWisdom.com: Former MTV producer and stand-up comedian Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff: Taming a Control Freak (A VERY fast 15 minutes)
Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!) |
A Think Toon by JD Crowe
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Crazy day, Friday.
Obama celebrated his Nobel Peace prize win by shooting the moon.
The cartoon above is a rough sketch, obviously. But it illustrates my thoughts on the surprising news that had everybody fired up yesterday. Conservatives, to nobody's surprise, went ballistic. Many liberals argue he hasn't done nearly enough in 9 months toward ending war, closing Gitmo, attacking global warming or tending to a host of other pet causes.
In accepting the prize, the president said as much himself. He told reporters that he wasn't sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the "transformative figures" who had won it before him. He said, "I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century."
The Nobel committee claimed Obama was awarded the medal for changing the "global mood." It's no secret that Europe was sick and tired of Obama's predecessor and were perhaps even more ready for change than American voters.
As a U.S. citizen, don't you have to feel a little twinge of pride that your president is awarded such an honor? John McCain thinks so.
McCain told CNN he cold not divine the committee's intentions. "I think part of their decision-making was expectations. But as an American, we're proud when our president receives an award of that prestigious category." (from an AP story in today's Press-Register.)
Yes, awarding a Peace Prize to Obama is premature, at best. Yes, some conservatives would have a cow if Obama won a prize in his Crackerjacks. Some of these same people rejoiced when the U.S. lost the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, cheering it as an Obama loss.
My first reaction on hearing the news was, "What?"
How can Obama win a Peace Prize BEFORE Samuel L. Jackson?
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