'Kike Like Me'

Are you a Jew? Don’t ask Jamie Kastner. The question annoys the
Canadian documentary-maker. He gets asked it a lot.

So Kastner shot “Kike Like Me,” a road movie bowing at Toronto’s Hot
Docs documentary festival on April 24. In the film, Kastner answers a hypothetical “yes” when asked whether he’s Jewish, followed by an equally terse “Why do you want to know?” to gauge how friend and
foe reacts.

Read the rest in the (go figure...) New Scotsman.

(H-T: Jewschool)

Pelosi's Syria junket: For an' agin' (updated with video)

Wow. When even The Washington Post sharply backhand's US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit with Syria's Assad, you can be sure there's a whole lotta' non-love goin' on there:

HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria.

What's more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to "resume the peace process" as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. "We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria," she said.

Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message.

Whoops. That's gotta' hurt. But not as much as this: