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…
A year ago at the Center for Jewish History, after a lecture by Niall Ferguson about “Jews & Money,” a woman in the audience asked whether Jewish money had not played a part in the British Balfour Declaration of 1917,…
Former CIA agent Michael Scheuer is not only a smart guy, he’s legit. He was on ’60 Minutes’ three years back talking about the hunt for bin Laden. Well, now Scheuer is out of the closet, on antiwar.com, with accusations…
When I visited Bethlehem a year back, I got the view north back to Jerusalem–beyond the all-but-encircling concrete barrier–of a sugarloaf of a hill with a gleaming settlement on it. Har Homa was built in the late ’90s, and its…
I watched Sarkozy’s speech to Congress on C-Span last night and it brought tears to my eyes. That guy has some good writers. Sarkozy summoned us to what is great in America. He talked about American individuality and daring, he…
I grew up middle-class in Baltimore. My parents raised 6 kids on an academic salary and my mother bought all our clothes at thrift shops. From 10 to 12, the object of all my hankering was E.J. Korvette’s. It was…
One of my mentors in Israel/Palestine issues is Boston-area activist Hilda Silverman. She is at once very Jewish (which gives me great comfort) and very concerned with Palestinian human rights. The other day she sent out the following note to…
Abe Foxman may be sawing off the treelimb he’s standing on. People are passing around the JTA’s wonderful/bizarre interview with the ADL director of a week or so back, in which Foxman defends his campaign against recognizing the Armenian genocide,…