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gangstayid
@gangstayid Jul 29, 2018, 7:22 AM UTC

Sopranos In Graceland - How Silvio Saved Paulie Simon From Gettin' Whacked

On October 13th, 1941, a bouncing baby boy was born to a couple of Jewish-Hungarian immigrants in Newark, New Jersey named Louis and Belle Simon. Although Jewish, his parents were fairly cosmopolitan…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid May 1, 2018, 1:48 PM UTC

Netanyahu's Prancing TED Talk - Holyland Update

(Photo: Jeffrey Lewis ) Welcome one and all to a wondrous apparition, provided by magician. The giant doing cartwheels, as well as the statue wearing high heels, will be joining us shortly. Meanwhile…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 28, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

Macho Zionism Kills 10 Teens - Weekend Holyland Update

Zafit Creek, where 10 pre-military prep-school students and applicants drowned in a flood on Thursday Photo: ekeidar CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia Whether you're a total believer in all it represents, or a…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 21, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

Israel Disses RBG, Gets Burned By Natalie Portman

"Do tell me more about the politics of Star Wars..." (Photo: Official site ) I was gonna write more of a think-piece on Israel at 70 and what its "Jewish history pageant" at the Independence Day cere…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 19, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

THE LEGEND OF THE GREEN LANTERN

(Photo: Alchetron.com) The NFL Draft is in one week. As I have not yet crossed the Rubicon of giving up on football, and as my New York Jets are in a position to finally draft a franchise quarterback…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 19, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

Cracking The Holocaust and Getting History Wrong - Holyland Update Pt 2

(Photo: Intel) Read Part 1? Good. And so we came to Wednesday night, at 7:45ish PM Israel time, to the grand ceremony marking 70 years of "There's Cause For Pride!" (the official slogan of the festiv…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 19, 2018, 3:25 AM UTC

Pre-Independence Fireworks - Holyland Update

(Photo: VisitExeter ) Welcome back to the Holyland Update in the new, more digestible format. Today we have a small victory for hope, and a whodunit with a surprise suspect. Further bemused hilarity,…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 16, 2018, 3:14 AM UTC

Memorial Day Drama - New Holyland Update

The Jewish-Arab Choir "Shirana" at the 2016 Israeli-Palestinian Memorial ceremony (Photo: Tatyana Gitilitz) Welcome one and all to the Holyland Update, brought to you in a new, more digestible format…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 14, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

In The Name Of Groove - How James Brown Gave Us The Funk And Saved Boston

The word funk is first recorded in the English language in 1620, four years after the death of William Shakespeare, as meaning "smelling of smoke". The word was derived from the Old French 'fungiere'…

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gangstayid
@gangstayid Apr 11, 2018, 4:02 AM UTC

Irish Entrance And The Honduras Hustle - The Flip-Flop Holyland Update

"Damn you, New Israel Fund!" (Cartoon: Noam Rabinovich ) I wrote a whole post, then it got deleted because of Steemit's dumbass CMS (and my forgetting to periodically ctrl-A, ctrl-S in my frenzied wr…

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