Moment magazine has a bevy of photo howlers. My favorite is this restaurant ad.Are those breadsticks made from matzo meal?
Knowing who your friends are...: The Israeli Consulate in Montreal will be closed due to Israeli Foreign Ministry funding cuts, though consulates in the United States will escape the budget knife. "In the end, the decision was taken not to close anything in the United States of America," said Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The budget ax fell on consulates in Montreal and three other cities, and on four embassies around the world.
"The idea was not to close anything in the U.S., because the United States is our closest ally and the work we do here is very, very important," Regev said.
It seems lamentations about no longer seeing Habs games in person and missing great pastrami were accidently cut out of the official statement.
Even the Chinese are getting in on the act: Israel has canceled plans for an exhibition in China of letters, photographs and essays by Albert Einstein because Chinese censors objected to a passage describing Einstein as a Jew who supported the formation of a Jewish state, an Israeli spokesman said today. According to news reports in Israel, at a recent meeting to review details of the Einstein exhibition, officials at China's Culture Ministry objected to a paragraph that described Einstein as a supporter of the Israeli state who was once offered the presidency of Israel by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister. "The Chinese said, 'Let's delete the fact that he's a Jew because every Chinese knows it anyway,' " a diplomatic source said. "We thought that was ridiculous."
Religious merger of Hindus and Jews not working out so well: Hinjew leaders today conceded the merger of Hinduism and Judaism has not worked out as planned, as instead of forming a super-religion to fight off the common Islamic enemy, they have instead created a race of 900 million people who, no matter how many times they are reincarnated, can never please their mothers.
"On paper, this was a textbook alliance — two smaller competitors join forces to take on a larger adversary," said New Delhi resident Chandra Gopan. "But the synergies are just not there. For instance, I still believe I must pursue my own dharmic path to ultimate happiness, but when I get there, I just know my mother will find something wrong with it." (SatireWire)
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