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Speaking of important Israeli officials: The late Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995. About a month before, a religious man named Avigdor Eskin made the news, when performing an ancient Jewish ritual named ‘Pulsa de-Nura’ (“lash of fire” in old Aramaic) against Mr. Rabin. The ancient curse supposedly worked, in a way that […]

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.” – Robert Louis Stevenson People who travel the old Jewish quarter of Prague (the capital of the Czech Republic) may be surprised to see shops with many little souvenirs in the shape of a strange and chubby human-like […]

Things get worse when they are imprinted in our minds with strong emotional context. Usually, when someone says bad things about our parents, children or loved ones, we tend to first react irrationally, even if some of the things said may be true. Many times in such cases, we don’t even bother to verify or […]

“It ain’t what a man don’t know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain’t so.” – Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) The workers of San Diego’s Wild Animal Park were facing a strange kind of problem. While promoting the California condor breeding program, they reached a point in time when […]

Fooling around with words and meanings appears to be very common, especially in situations such as commercial marketing or politics (hope you’ve seen ‘Yes, Minister’). Religions, however, pretend to be more pure and moral, so they deserve some special treatment here. This is what the Jewish missionary organization named ‘Values’ (‘Arachim’, in Hebrew) teaches its […]

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery How long has it been since you last practiced your math? Let’s put it to a test with two simple riddles. We’ll start with this one: Suppose you randomly pick an integer (that is, whole) […]

Sounds almost funny, doesn’t it? Well, this is what a “respectable” Israeli parliament (“Knesset”) member, Mr. Shlomo Benizri, said today in a public speech: The recent (weak) earthquakes in Israel and the area occurred because of homosexual activities (in Israel). This is not the first time Mr. Benizri and his friends demonstrate their knowledge in […]

Do you belong to the PC-DOS generation? Have you ever played Lemmings? Many people have speculated about the suicidal behavior of these small rodents, which are known to deliberately run in large numbers over high cliffs to their deaths. The Lemming Suicide Plunge was granted interesting evolutionary explanations. Some said it was a natural impulse […]

“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.” – Henry Havelock Ellis We’ll start this little fascinating research with three different short stories. One of them is somewhat fictitious. The other two are based on fact. Two of them (not necessarily the same two!) […]