The ever-curious Charlie Rose deserves kudos for hosting Saad Eskander, the Iraqi national librarian, the other night. It is the kind of interchange that I as an optimist want to think can change America: an intelligent, sensitive Arab speaks from…
My side will win. Why? Because the movement is growing inside Jewish culture to call attention to the destruction of Palestinian lives. And Jewish culture is, like it or not, really important in the American discourse. Note that the Jewish…
A friend has passed along Norman Pearlstine’s piece in WSJ urging Michael Mukasey to drop the AIPAC case. Pearlstine argues that the lobbyists were performing routine business: there have been few prosecutions of government leakers for espionage in recent decades…
On TPM, the main approach that commenters have to Mukasey’s approval is to talk about AIPAC: Mukasey’s Jewishness, and the Jewishness of Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, the NY and Cal senators who gave him the votes he needed. Meantime,…
I’m trying to mint the term “religious left.” This Thursday night the religious left is having a hoe-down at the Grand Hyatt in New York, a fundraiser for the Jewish settlers who who have colonized central Hebron, the second-largest Arab…
The amount of anti-Mormonism in the culture right now is shocking. People unload on Mormonism all the time, John McCain’s mother, the New Republic…. Mitt Romney says he’s going to deal with it. Maybe give a speech. Last night on…
There’s an attack on Norman in Jewlicious, referring to comments he made about his Jewishness in Nextbook, but the best piece I’ve seen is The American Conservative’s interview of five years back. The folks from TAC asked about Israel and…
On “ABC World News” tonight, Steve Osunsami did a fine report on an Atlanta man who has been using 440,000 gallons of water a month–about 50 times the average usage. The Atlanta Constitution unearthed the story, now the whole city…
The endorsement by Pat Robertson of pro-abortion candidate Rudy Giuliani this week is widely seen as a sign that the evangelical Christian vote, which has scared the bejesus out of a lot of people in blue states for the last…