The other night I went to the Israel Policy Forum’s annual leadership event at the Grand Hyatt in New York, and I’m going to blog about a number of things that happened there, including my own conversion to a two-state…
The Washington Post is a hotbed of secularism. In yesterday’s paper, Richard Cohen attacked Mike Huckabee for “his obdurate and narrow-minded religious beliefs”–his positions on abortion, stem cells, gun control. Today the Post editorial page justifiably lands on Mitt Romney…
Help rescue American Jewry! Tomorrow at 1 p.m., at 63d and Madison, there will be another protest at Leviev, the fancy diamond mart lately opened by Lev Leviev, a leading backer of the illegal settlers’ movement in Palestine. Adalah-N.Y., the…
Today’s Haaretz features an interview with Ehud Olmert datelined the U.S. in which the P.M. says that Israel must allow a two-state solution now or face a “South-African style struggle for equal voting rights” that will alienate American Jewish groups….
Sometimes we don’t see how much the world has changed. The left has changed the U.S. discourse in the last few months. It’s happened before our eyes. Yes, Walt and Mearsheimer are marginalized, but last night in a packed church…
My wife and I made some money off the sale of our house (I’m almost ashamed to admit, what with the sales crisis) and I was about to give a bunch to our investment guy when my wife invoked Sharia,…
A couple weeks back, I criticized Americans for Peace Now for remaining on the executive board of AIPAC; and Dan Fleshler responded to me on his blog, in a post called “Are Pro-Israel doves part of the ‘lobby’?” Weiss does…
This Thanksgiving my wife and I went to her cousin’s place in suburban Philadelphia, not all that far from my parents’ house, and since my wife’s sister and her family from Connecticut were also coming, we made a plan for…
I’m the general contractor and main laborer on renovations of my new house, and the job has brought me into contact with working-class Americans. I enjoy this, and experience it as a privilege: it’s part of the economy that my…