A couple weeks back I said that no American newspaper would print a piece by the great Henry Siegman, the former American Jewish Congress president who has become outspoken on the need for Israel to deal fairly with the Palestinians….
More on the real Iraq: “Riverbend,” the electifying and poetical blogger in Baghdad, offers the desolating tale of a sportloving shopowner who displayed the Brazilian flag in his window till the party of Muqtada al-Sadr, which is part of the…
The Washington Post today has an amazing cable from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to the State Department reporting on conditions in the capital. Based on the accounts of Iraqi staff, the cable shows that Iraq is dissolving into civil…
Back when I was a kid, we used to denounce people who used code words for Jews. Rootless cosmopolitans was the classic. The modern variants were “pushy,” “aggressive,” and “New Yorkish.” It was antisemitism cloaked in euphemism. Lately I’ve noticed…
“How It Happens” Striking, contemplative, remorseless, and amused, this painting, by Eric Erickson, whose work is widely collected (and who’s a friend of mine) is featured in a show at the ADD Gallery in Hudson, up through July 16.
Donald Winter This is the new secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, sworn in a few months ago. He opened up the Naval War College’s conference on strategy that I attended Tuesday in Rhode Island, and when I heard…
A few more reasons not to pull for the U.S. against Italy tomorrow: 10. The players reportedly don’t know what their roles are, why should the fans? 11. Soccer moms: The game still has an entitled, suburban feel here, and…
The Forward (in a fine piece of reporting on a conference on the future of the Jewish people arranged by a leading Jerusalem thinktank, to which no women were invited) quotes feminist leader Shifra Bronznick, and on third reference to…