Marcus Hardie, picture at Haaretz
Why is Haaretz eating the New York Times’s breakfast on the most important international story? Because Haaretz runs headlines like the one above about the guy at left, who used to call himself American Thug!
And you heard the right of return of Palestinian refugees was Israel’s nightmare? No, no, no. The law of (Jewish) return is Israel’s nightmare. The right of return might actually heal the place!
Well, here’s one of P. Diddy’s former acts – once known as “Shyne” – now known as Moshe Levi
“Doing his time for firing that pistol in the nightclub with Puff Daddy and J. Lo a dozen years ago, the rapper known as Shyne experienced a jailhouse religious awakening. The faith he says changed his life involved embracing his heritage as a black man, forswearing destructive behaviors, covering his head and taking a new name. Yet it had nothing to do with the Nation of Islam. The former Jamal Michael Barrow, a.k.a. Shyne, a.k.a. Shyne Poloeniut, now answers to Moshe Levi. He spends his days studying Torah and striding through the Old City of Jerusalem in the long tailored coats favored by Hasidic Jews, sidelocks a-bob and a rabbi’s lecture booming on his iPad.
Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/12/14/shyne-ing-in-jerusalem-how-one-rapper-saw-the-light-and-converted-to-ultra-orthodox-judaism/#ixzz1kxZIlFYT
Lord Help us!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh,he wants to be part of the chosen people huh?Oy.
Chosen for what;Endless misery?
Can someone explain me what is wrong here? The guy has converted to Judaism, made Aliyah to Israel and served in IDF. Maybe because he is black it does not “sit” well with you Phil? Or maybe because he used to be a “bad” person? Otherwise I would think there is a smell of racist bigotry here. People change.
“I’m both American and Israeli. But I’d say I feel more Israeli.”
an israel firster