A woman in Stockholm was dragged for nearly ten metres under her own car after she managed run herself over.

The International Council of Christians and Jews has made a statement on attempted ban on circumcision.

This is American politics in the twenty-first century?

This week, I have been busy with jury service. I spend more and more time at the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal, where I’m a part-time lay judge. I like it. It’s a job I can combine with my studies and general nerdiness for news, politics, arts, and debate.

A new application on my iPhone has also made a big change for me. It allows me to blog while on the move. It’s the reason for the increase in short entries, which I tend to prefer to long blog entries that take more time and more resemble articles I wish to publish elsewhere. I have realized that I love blogging more now that it’s an integrated part of my daily life. Whenever I have a few seconds to myself, I pick up my mobile, browse through the latest news, and post links to what I find interesting at that precise moment. I blog on the bus, during dinner, and when I’m on the—hmm, you don’t need to know that. Anyhow, it’s fun for me to write, and I think it makes my blog more readworthy.

It’s Friday evening, the sun is almost gone, and Shabbat is here. Shabbat shalom!

שבת שלום

Ron Paul uses the words “freedom” and “liberty” more than all the other candidates combined.

Someone needs to teach Iran about the free market. If someone doesn’t want to buy your goods, you can’t punish them by refusing to sell that very same goods to them.

A growing number of people refuse to make the choice.

Homophobes gather to discus how to convert gay people to heterosexuality. London’s many gay saunas will be full at night.

God is very in at the moment. In Israel, 80 per cent of the Jews believe that God exists.

Progress is in the air.

People who give in to racism and homophobia may simply be dumb. Perhaps we should pity them instead of wasting time arguing with them?

Bengt Westerberg is becoming something of an international celebrity in the Jewish world.

“An Israeli study on electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) for severely depressed or psychotic patients has apparently disproved the claim that the similar process of stunning animals before slaughter is humane and minimizes their suffering,” Jerusalem Post reports.

Today we remember the Holocaust.

Gawker investigates.

Politics at its best: a penguin defaecates at the Kentucky State Senate.

Atheists are known for flying aeroplanes into skyscrapers and killing innocent people in suicide attacks?

Last night I went to the premiere of “Gunilla”, a monologue written by Miguel Àngel Fraga and played by Kim Rosenbäck. If you are in Malmö in the next three weeks, I recommend you’ll see it at MAF. It’s only about an hour long, but it lasts for hours. In short, the monologue is about a man who transforms himself into a woman while being interviewed about his life at a Cuban prison-like sanatorium, where the regime confines people with HIV. In the 1980s, Sweden and Cuba were the only two countries where people with HIV were imprisoned simply for being HIV-positive.

The president of the European Jewish Congress says Sweden has become a centre of anti-Semitism.

The German government has released the findings of a two-year inquiry into modern anti-Semitism, demonstrating that latent anti-Semitism affects one in every five Germans.