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Before 2009 comes to an end, I wanted to point out that in this, the 20th anniversary of the reuniting of their divided city of Berlin, the Europeans want to divide our reunited city of Jerusalem

The way to do that, I figured, was to do a cartoon that "just said it"!

* * * For a report on the current situation by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel's ambassador to the UN in 1997-99, click on Europe Seeks to Divide Jerusalem


Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done 20 years ago in the winter of 1989.

I picked this cartoon because of the latest weather-related news which makes the threat of Global Warming seem as silly to us simple folk now, as it did back then in 1989.

A few samples:

from Ireland:

Freezing weather causes havoc on the roads

"Motorists have been urged to be extremely careful on the roads as the cold snap continues to make driving hazardous.
Further freezing conditions are forecast for tonight, with temperatures expected to dip to zero and more snowfalls expected.
Icy road surfaces today have resulted in cars skidding. Thousands of kilometres of local roads remain untreated and are extremely dangerous to drive on." -more

from Poland:

Poland reports 29 deaths in deep-freeze weather

"Warsaw - Twenty-nine people people have frozen to death throughout Poland during the weekend's bitter cold wave that has dropped temperatures to minus 20 degrees Celsius, police said Sunday in Warsaw. Most of the dead were homeless and alcohol-dependent men between 30 and 50 years of age. The latest deaths brought to 71 the number of people who have died in Poland from exposure since early December." -more

from Western Europe:

Eurostar passenger train services suspended over freezing weather

"Eurostar trains carrying passengers in the undersea Channel Tunnel between Britain and France will remain suspended on Sunday over concerns of freezing weather, the rail operator has said.
A total of five high-speed passenger trains broke down on Friday and Saturday as they entered the warmer tunnel from cold air outside, with condensation causing electricity failures. More than 2,000 passengers were trapped inside the tunnel for many hours." -more

from The United States:

Blizzard-like storm slams East; region snowed in

" WASHINGTON ? A blizzard-like storm rocked the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, crippling travel across the region and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power.
Five deaths appeared to have been caused by the storm system, which stretched from the Carolinas north to New England and also spread into some Midwestern states. The 16 inches of snow that fell at Reagan National Airport outside Washington was the most ever recorded for a single December day, while about 16 inches had also fallen in Philadelphia.
-more

from Canada:

Edmonton Registers Record-Low Cold Weather

" Edmonton, Alberta (AHN) - Edmonton registered on Sunday a record-high freezing temperature of minus 46.1 degree Celsius. It broke the old record of negative 36.1 degree set in 2008.
The extremely cold weather was logged 5 a.m. on Sunday at the Edmonton International Airport, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard. If the wind chill is included in the measure, the recorded temperature was at minus 58.4 degree Celsius.
Edmonton's city center also broke its own record Sunday when it logged on Sunday a temperature of minus 36.5 degree Celsius at 8 a.m. It broke the previous Dec. 13 record of negative 32.8 degree Celsius set in 1882" -more

* * * Your thoughts?


According to the Associated Press:

WARSAW, Poland -- "The Nazis' infamous iron sign declaring "Arbeit Macht Frei" -- German for "Work Sets You Free" -- was stolen Friday from the entrance of the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said."

"The 16-foot-long, 90-pound iron sign at the Holocaust memorial site in southern Poland was unscrewed on one side and torn off on the other, police spokeswoman Katarzyna Padlo said."

"The sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") was stolen before dawn Friday. The theft from the entrance to the camp, where more than one million people, mostly Jews, died during World War II, triggered world-wide condemnation." -more

I spent the past two days in Jerusalem attending the annual 2009 Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism (GFCA). There were more than 500 participants from over 50 countries. Among those taking part was Lithuania?s Foreign Minister, Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and the Czech Republic?s Minister of Human Rights. There were also legislators, jurists, academics, and heads of many NGO's among the participants... and as near as I could determine, one cartoonist.

You can visit the GFCA website by clicking here.


Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done for Chanukka in 1997.

It was published in the Jerusalem Post and other newspapers for folks to cut out and mail to their friends. These days forget "snail mail", you can just forward it! So I decided to re-run it as a Golden Oldie.

Happy Holiday!


The American media has hounded Tiger Woods' and luxuriated in this "story" like some old gossip magazine. But because the guy is a multimillionaire, and because it looks to me like he had himself a real good time, I allowed myself the luxury of taking a cheap shot at him, and did this cartoon to give you a laugh. In any case, his "comeback" will be brilliant and profitable!

A thought: Most public figures who dramatically withdraw from public life and want to prove it ...are photographed playing golf. How will Tiger handle that?


Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done 25 years ago this month in 1984.

It was a time of economic pressure. Folks didn't know how they'd make it to the end of the month. Which is why this cartoon resonated so well with local fans at the time.

Happy Hanukka!


The developing story as reported in the Lebanese newspaper, The Daily Star:

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Lebanese government on Monday it will be held accountable for any aggression from Hizbullah after allowing the resistance to retain its weapons. He also launched a scathing attack on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, claiming it had ?collapsed? and was playing no role in preventing Hizbullah stockpiling huge arsenals of rockets.

?Hizbullah is today the real Lebanese army and it has replaced Lebanon?s army as the dominant force by arming and organizing itself as a full-fledged military,? Netanyahu told parliament?s foreign affairs and defense committee.

?The Lebanese government and Hizbullah are becoming entwined and they will bear the responsibility for any attack against Israel,? a senior official who attended the meeting quoted Netanyahu as saying." -more

Posting a cartoon every weekday leaves no room for me to simply share news, ideas, and other stuff with you. So welcome to 'Sunday Mail: Letters from Dry Bones', the new, once-a-week Dry Bones feature.

Item One: A Friend:
Dr. David Neiman was a guy whom I'd bump into when he was in Israel visiting his daughter, a friend of mine. We'd sit at a sidewalk cafe in the bohemian-ish Shenkein neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Mostly we'd argue over the Bible, prophecy, and current events. He was a delight. It was only after his death that I discovered that the guy I loved to debate was a learned scholar and historian!!?!

He was the first Jewish scholar ever to be invited to teach in the theology department of a Catholic University, joining the faculty of Boston College in 1966. He went on to become the first Jewish theologian to be invited to teach at the Pontifical Gregorian University at the Vatican Item Two: For Hanukkah:
There are many stories and myths associated with Hanukkah...and lessons to be drawn ...and foods and rituals to enjoy, but how many of us are familiar with the actual historical events we mark at this time ?

One way to educate yourself is to sit in on one of the courses that my friend Dr. David Neiman gave. I did and thought you might enjoy it too.

Click here to listen to Dr. Neiman's 46 minute lecture on Hanukkah.

By the way, you can also find some of Dr.Neiman's YouTube videos at Dr.Neiman's videos

Happy Hanukkah!!


Hannuka, Chanukah, Chanukkah . . . however you spell it, it stands for our eight-day "Festival of Lights".

And it begins tonight!

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