I Am A Jerusalemite

Stanley Goldfoot, the founder and editor of The Times of Israel, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At age 18, he packed a bag and moved to Palestine. The British police sent him back to South Africa, where he was drafted into the army. Mr. Goldfoot returned to Tel Aviv. He worked as a journalist [...]

AlfonZo Rachel, Toilet Economics & the Success of Failure

AlfonZo Rachel is the founder of Macho Sauce Productions. He was born on Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana in 1972, but has lived in Southern California most of his life. A musician and martial artist, Mr. Rachel is a self-described Christian conservative republican. In his Zonation video, he uses a toilet as a metaphor for [...]

Nazi Looted Art Returned on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Max Stern did not live to see the day. In 1937, the Jewish art dealer was ordered by the Nazis to sell his collection of 228 paintings. He then fled to England and later moved to Canada. One of the paintings from Dr. Stern’s collection was a 1632 Dutch Old Master called “Portrait of a [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns California’s Nazi Loot

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on hand on April 10, 2009, when two paintings belonging to the state were returned to the grandchildren of their original owners. Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, who owned a gallery in Berlin, fled to France in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. The Nazis auctioned off 100 paintings from the Oppenheimer’s [...]

Rock the Matzah

Passover or Pesach begins on the 15th day of Jewish month of Nissan in the Diaspora, which this year is the evening of April 8, 2009. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and deliverance to freedom after enduring many generations of enslavement. Unleaven bread, or matzah, is eaten for the eight days of the festival. [...]