22.03.2012
VIDEO: Mohammed Mehra, profile of the Beast of Toulouse
So what do we know about Mohammed Mehra, the 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian extraction who killed three French paratroopers and four Jews in Toulouse?
According to various reports, here are some interesting bits of information about his psychological profile:
He was arrested 15 times as a youth, and spent a full year in a juvenile penitentiary.
He was prone to serious violence as a youth. As a young adult, he traveled to the most dangerous place on earth, the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be trained in combat by some of the most violent and despicable people in the world.
He said he was a Salafi and a member of al-Qaida. Both of these ‘groupings’ are pretty much as extreme as you can get.
French prosecutors say he had a mental illness as a child.
When French anti-terror police brought his mother to the house he was holed up in, she said she could not talk to him because she “has no influence on him.”
He liked to watch videos of beheadings on the internet. READ MORE
21.03.2012
Jewish winter Olympics in Slovakia
“So you are going to Slovakia to make a report about Jewish Winter Olympics in the mountains? Well, a kind of strange excuse for a winter vacation, Ian.”
Indeed, why did I go at all? I never liked sports, I’m not any kind of sport reporter at all, I don’t really get fascinated by mountains, especially when it’s below -20 C. After all, I met some people from local Jewish communities already and wasn’t expecting to hear anything new. When a cog train brought me up to the place called Štrbské Pleso, which name I could hardly pronounce partially because of its frosty climate, my only wish was to hide myself in my hotel and magically reappear in another hotel some 800m away, where the games were taking place.
Maybe the reason why this event surprisingly became my warmest memory of this cold winter was the warm welcome and helpful assistance, which were offered to me by Petra Mullerova, a friendly and active young lady behind the whole organizational process of the Slovak Maccabi Games. Another reason might be the stunning beauty of the High Tatras, the mountain range surrounding the spot. The third segment is finally the home atmosphere of the the largest Jewish event in Slovakia, which seem to avoid any kind of formality or pomposity.
CATEGORIES: English Social Culture
20.03.2012
{PASSOVER BLINTZES} THICK & CREAMY CHEESE BLINTZES:
These blintzes are made up of light and fluffy crepes with a thick filling of cheese that make them delicious and impossible to stop at just one.
Ingredients for Crepe Batter:
18 eggs
3 cups of water
3 cups of potato starch
Ingredients for Cheese Batter:
4 containers of cottage cheese
3 eggs
3/4 cup of sugar
Directions:
Mix the Crepe batter ingredients together. Pour 1/3 cup of batter into a frying pan and cook the crepe until solid. Then flip it out of the frying pan onto a plate. Once you have cooked all the crepes, mix together the cheese batter ingredients in a large bowl. Fill the center with some of the cheese mixture, and fold over the sides to form a blintze. Repeat until all blintzes are formed. Heat up a frying pan and cook the blintzes. Serve with jam or sour cream.
~ Recipe submitted by Nina Safar
CATEGORIES: English Food Choices Kosher Recipes Social Culture
18.03.2012
A poem for our times
On a table, together with all my options,
I sat under a nuclear umbrella and played with a mushroom cloud.
I was in a zone,
Of immunity.
I pitted a nuclear duck against a terrorist octopus.
They crossed each others’ red lines until both reached the point of no return
And spinning, they fell off the table.
I got up to close the window of opportunity,
as it was letting in a cold draft from the Islamic Winter outside.
Spring, all too short, was over.
CATEGORIES: English Politics Short Story WTF
18.03.2012
Ausstellungstipp: Helmut Newton’s Private Property & Polaroids bis 20. Mai 2012 in Berlin, Museum für Fotografie
Helmut Newton, der ursprünglich aus einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie stammte, arbeitete größtenteils für die australische Vogue, bevor ihn auch die deutsche oder amerikanische Ausgabe engagierte. Zu Beginn der Siebziger Jahre etablierte sich Newton zu einem der begehrtesten und teuersten Fotografen im Bereich Mode, Werbung und Akt.
Bevor die druckreifen und endgültigen Bilder entstanden sind, arbeitete Newton stets mit seinen Polaroid-Kameras, um vorab einen Überblick über Faktoren wie Bildkomposition oder Lichtsituation zu gewinnen – eine Art Ideenskizze also.
CATEGORIES: Art Design Documentation Exhibition Fashion Favored German Jews-News
16.03.2012
BERRY PIE WITH CRUMBLE TOPPING:
This is the easiest pie and everyone always LOVES it.
Ingredients:
Pie Crust (I use a deep dish frozen pie crust.)
Berries (fill it with your choice of berries, I use blueberries and raspberries. My sister likes to pair up strawberries with peaches. You can use frozen or fresh depending on season…and price!)
1/2 cup of flour
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 stick of margarine
Directions:
Cook the pie crust for about 10 minutes on 350′. Then remove from oven and allow to cool off. Place the berries in the pie crust. Combine the sugar, flour and maragarine in a bowl. Crumble it together with ur hands then sprinkle on top of the filling. Bake on 350′ for about 30 min or until crust looks golden. You can serve this with ice cream and it’s seriously the best thing ever.
~ Recipe submitted by Nina Safar
16.03.2012
