Even The Simpsons on Fox have gotten onto the "you gotta be an idiot to join the Army" bandwagon.  On Veterans Day weekend.  Nice work.  Here's the video.

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Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence.

"One day the penny will drop for American Jews and they will realize they have no future as Jews in the US due to assimilation and intermarriage," he told The Jerusalem Post while in the United States to participate in the world's largest annual gathering of Jewish leaders.

Jews have no future in America and should all move to Israel, Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielski said Sunday.

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Groundbreaking on the new Mets stadium which opens in 2009 will take place today.  Reports say that it will be called CitiField.  That's gonna take a whole lot of getting used to.

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I would love to see this.

In her new solo show DAI (enough), Iris Bahr explores the misunderstood Israeli psyche as manifested through various inhabitants of a Tel Aviv café, who unknowingly share their stories moments before perishing in a bombing. The souls Bahr brings to life -- a self-loathing Israeli New Yorker, an extremist West Bank settler, a jilted German trying to win back the affection of his Israeli lover, an aging Zionist, an American there to build a Rapture Information Center, a Palestinian intellectual, a Russian prostitute -- all seem to be struggling with a splintered Israeli identity, a conflicted attachment to the state of Israel, and most importantly, a personal inability to lead what they feel is a normal life. Whether their predicament is self-inflicted or brought upon them by the world at large, is a question for which they all have an equally passionate answer.

Here's more on the show from Jewlicious where I first read about it.

The play is also shocking because Bahr’s transition between characters is marked by a “suicide bombing.” The character collapses, the lights go out, and what seems to be a real recording of the sounds during such an event–destruction, crying, frightened yelling in Hebrew–plays in the background. During this, Bahr moves to the next of cafe tables set up on the stage and puts on some combination of hat, jacket, or shirt (as well as voice and accent–characters are convincingly male and female, Russian and Israeli) to signify the next character, who we meet that same moment a mere few minutes prior to that same bombing. Even once you know it’s coming, the “bomb” is extremely powerful. It arrives both out of the blue and at a moment when a character’s just about to do something, meet somebody, say something, and thus completely throws off the audience’s expectation for what might happen next. Suicide bombing is thus presented as something one cannot get used to, something fundamentally anti-human.