Truly a shocking and ultimately disgraceful piece by Ron Kampeas at JTA, saying there's no Jewish Maureen Dowd–which is to say, a columnist who celebrates his/her ethnic roots. In the end disgraceful because it is emblematic of the general lack of reflection in the Jewish/mainstream press of the degree to which Jewish identification, much of it bald (Jeffrey Goldberg had the love of Israel injected into his wedding vows, he proclaims in his book Prisoners; Eric Alterman recently spoke at the 92d Street Y of his "dual loyalty" to Israel; Elliott Abrams said that Jews have to stand apart from the societies in which they live, when they are not in Israel), has nullified foreign policymaking in the Middle East.
