Yeah, they shut down one of my favorite bars for a solid WEEK to film there. I was unbelievably pissed. Also, it made getting to the train a huge hassle.

What language do you think they're speaking? Because let's go through this:

Technically, the Druze aren't considered Arab Israelis, and are in fact drafted into the IDF.

Haaretz was probably reporting on the official government position.

....I hope this is a joke.

You're taking two issues that are not related other than by involving the same community, and putting them together—- namely, the issue of the draft in Israel and the issue of education in America. I'm not sure why you're doing this, but it's demonizing the community ("look at all the ways the Ultra-Orthodox are…

Basically as long as Judaism has been around— it's not that "men don't work, ever," it's that ideologically, the greatest thing (biggest "mitzvah") a man can do with his life is to study Torah, all day every day. The greatest thing a woman can do with her life is support the family, so that her husband can devote his…

I think the point is that it's a vast understatement, for ironic effect— I would guess that most people who frequent Jezebel are familiar with Polanski's history.

I was watching the first season of Veronica Mars last night, and at one point I was like, "damn, her tits are huge! What happened?"

Yeah, as I said in my previous post, I have a good friend who came into her inheritance about 6 months after her loans came due. It was enough to pay them off in full and have a little left over to travel on. Thank god for her, though, because she does theater.

This is why any "Zero-tolerance" set of rules is inherently fucked up: human beings live lives of circumstances, not statistics. Drawing a line, no matter how reasonable it seems on paper, is most likely going to be unreasonable for the everyday lives of individuals. I read recently about a woman, now in her 30s, who…

Well, the thing is that state schools are cheaper, and the student debt problem is ridiculous. But that's been too often framed as a failing of the student, who made the "wrong" choice, rather than a failing of the system as a whole. (Which is what I think you're saying, if I'm reading between the lines correctly.)

Thank you so much for saying this. I graduate next Friday, and due to working like an angry bastard for seven years of undergrad (and being denied financial aid because "if you're under 23, we assume that your parents are helping you pay!") I get to graduate with no debt. My friends are all going on about how lucky I…

In the US, tuition at a top-notch school can work out to over $40,000 a year. So simply working over the summer won't cut it if you're at, say, NYU. However, there are multitudes of affordable public schools that often students don't want to go to because they aren't as prestigious, such as the CUNY system. (Both…