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For the latest victims of slaughter and genocide who have made their way to Israel– the besieged people of Darfur, the survivors of Congo’s seemingly endless civil war and the innocents caught up in Africa’s other bitter conflicts – the government has failed to live up to both Jewish values and international law. Regrettably, most of these tragic victims of conflict are detained in Israeli prisons, deported back to life-threatening  danger, or living in a shadow economy without rights or benefits.

The New Israel Fund is supporting a coalition of NIF grantees forcefully advocating for changes in Israel’s refugee and immigration policy while providing emergency humanitarian assistance and medical care to African refugees now held in detention camps on the Israeli border. An immediate goal is to demand the establishment of a temporary absorption center to handle the influx of desperate refugees who have entered Israel and who are seeking official refugee status. Returning these individuals to Egypt or deporting them elsewhere without adequate safeguards is both cruel and unlawful and must be stopped.

To learn more go to: www.nif.org/africa.

The Ball, sponsored by http://www.LetMyPeopleGo.com, has been the nation's biggest Jewish Singles event 12 years in a row. More than 3,000 Jewish Singles attend each Christmas Eve. Started in NYC, The Ball is coming to many cities for 2007 and beyond.

The Jewish Ballplayer.  this is extremely funny!

One of the finest oud players in Israel, George Samaan and Salem Darwishe on darbuka performing with Israeli music legend Ehud Banai

Enjoy!

for more Israeli music go to www.tamirproductions.com

The trailer for the new Coen brothers' new adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

Basketballs. They separate us from the animals. For fifteen million years, man has used basketball as his greatest tool. Whether as a crude bludgeoning instrument against a vicious, wild mongoose, used to "serve" a cocky gazelle, or just to enchant other cavewomen with the mysterious, gravity-defying finger-spin, the basketball is truly the one earmark of true sentience.

Basketball: we salute you. 

Warning: Professionals on a closed course. Don't try this at home.

Will it blend? iPhone smoothie coming up.

Brian Steidle, in his position as an unarmed military observer in Darfur, found himself becoming a witness to the destruction of civilians. Mr. Steidle did not have much in the way of equipment with him as an AU monitor, but he had a camera, and he took hundreds and hundreds of photographs.

When Mr. Steidle returned to the United States from Darfur earlier this year, he began to speak out using his photographs. He was the subject of a column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. "Innocence" appeared on all kinds of media outlets, including CNN and Night Line and the CBS News. He also just returned from a trip to Chad, where he visited refugee camps and met some of the people who had fled from Darfur. Mr. Steidle makes a presentation with photographs from both his time in Darfur and his more recent trip to Chad.

Presidential hopeful John McCain on dropping from the race. What? You smokin' somethin'?

Very strange. 'Nuff said.

George Bush goes to Albania and, amidst being fondly groped by throngs of the natives, his watch disappears. The BBC takes us on a sardonically editorialized recounting of the whole horrific ordeal. Watch for such key quotes as, "Even here there was a bitter twist."

The piece's coup-de-grace come halfway through, with, "and a scramble to respond in the West Wing, where they're more used to talking about other missing items - like weapons of mass destruction, for example."

Ba-ZING!

Our friends at the BBC have disabled embedding for this, so you'll have to go to our friends at YouTube to watch this, friends. Apologies for the inconvenience!

The BBC reports: British people everywhere are confused and saddened by the new 2012 Olympics logo. Scientists predict this phenomenon has already spread to most of Europe and the US. In other news, if you cleverly rearrange the symbols, it reads "ZION." Heh, heh, uh ... Weird! Heh...

Booyakasha! Borat may be a little too well recognized to go around mocking every freedom loving racist in the United States, but that shouldn't stop Sascha Baron Cohen's "Ali G" character from making a big impact at the Cannes Porn Festival. "Now it ain't every day you get to meet someone that you has had over 300 masturbations of," he says, introducing Jenna Jameson. My thoughts exactly. Beware, this video may or may not contain a boobie or two.

I've got some bad news for you sunshine,
Mickey isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate brand
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand.

Britney Spears staged her stunning 15 minute-long comeback concert at a House of Blues in San Diego with a mysterious dance troupe under the pseudonym "The M+M's". Much discussion has gone into what those letters stand for. Madness and Mayhem? Mickey and Minnie? Mescaline and Morphine? The only thing that's certain is that Britney looked kinda Tranny, danced slower than the other dancers, and didn't wear much. "That ain't no comeback," commented one friend of Jewcy. Well said.

Born in Israel in 1970, DAVID VOLACH was brought up, together with his 19 siblings, in an ultra-orthodox family. The family lived in the Haredic community in Jerusalem, one of the most orthodox Jewish communities in the country. In his late teens, he studied in the Ponevezh yeshiva, one of the most famous Talmudical yeshivas. During that time, he began his long process of secularization. Eleven years ago, at age 25, he left the religious community, became secular, and moved to Tel-Aviv. There he took film courses for a year. My Father My Lord is his first feature film.

It's been making its rounds across the internet and, gosh, to be honest? We were smitten. These two fluffy little guys were spotted floating around, hands clasped, at the Vancouver Aquarium. Apparently they do this. But it's for the same reason that humans do: to exchange complex protein strings. They do it solely for the love of hand-holding. Aww!

Clip from Idiocracy, one of the most overlooked movies of all time (as well as a Jewcy favorite). Meet the President of America, a man by the name of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Bombs Away!! actually got Tonedeff the Musician to drive in all the way from Junction City for their newest hit, The Bomb Squad

The Secret is a self-help phenomenon: it's no. 1 in its category on the New York Times bestseller list, the DVD is no. 1 on Amazon, and its cadre of experts has appeared on every major talk show from Oprah to Larry King. Jewcy's Rebecca DiLiberto is playing test chump--er, chimp--to see if The Secret really works. She'll log her progress regularly on Faithhacker as she completes the program. Meanwhile, have a looksee for yourself.

Steve Jobs introduces the iRack. It's the perfect complement to the iPod, iMac, and iMicrowave. Unfortunately, it has no exit strategy.

Hugo Chavez organizes anti-American rallies when Bush visits a neighboring Latin American country to discuss energy deals. What's Hugo going to do now that the Bushes are salsa dancing in Sao Paolo? My guess is turn into the John Lithgow reverend from Footloose. "El gringo diablo no debe bailar!"

A douchebag (annoying, hipster one, at that) goes to Brooklyn and makes fun of Izzy's kind of people. I couldn't help myself. Sorry, Izzy.

In honor of Britney Spears "successfully completing" her stint at rehab today after several failed attempts. And because Izzy brought the song to Beth Gottfried's attention earlier in her "Ode To Amy Winehouse" post.

What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a new school visual style. The Tribe weaves together archival footage, graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas, and slam poetry to take audiences on an electric ride through the complex history of both the Barbie doll and the Jewish people- from Biblical times to present day.

By tracing Barbie’s history, the film sheds light on what it means to be an American Jew in the 21st Century. www.tribethefilm.com

Mr. Boston, "charming" New York's mother on VH1's "I Love New York". The show's a hit in the Jewcy offices, beating its forebearer "Flava Of Love" by a longshot. The white n' pasty Mr. Boston, representing all of Judaism everywhere, uses the timeless art of seduction common to all of the chosen people, confirming yes, he has dated black girls (really, really light ones), and it would be okay to have a black baby. A really, really light one.