Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Foreign Minister of Israel and a scholar. Today he spoke on the Upper East side to a crowded hall and said that if Israel does not come up with the general agreement envisioned at Annapolis…
I’m cheap so on March 5 when I mailed my old passport to Philadelphia to be renewed, I didn’t pop for the $60 expediting fee. Just paid the $75 renewal fee–taking a chance that I wouldn’t get the thing back…
On NPR’s All Things Considered tonight, Eric Westervelt put forward the usual conflation of Jewish votes and Jewish money in the American presidential campaign. John McCain’s 2-day trip to Israel was aimed at “courting Jewish voters in the U.S.,” Westervelt…
On her recent visit to the Jewish state, the Jerusalem Post asked Myra Kraft, a leader in American Jewish philanthropy to Israel and the wife of Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, how she would feel about…
Admit it: This has been the most magnificent campaign of our lives. Entertaining, uplifting, full of surprise and great characters. Who will ever forget Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul. And today it outdid itself. Obama’s speech on race was stunning….
Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence has written to say that the Harvard Hillel director’s statement that IDF soldiers were to accompany all visitors to the exhibit at Harvard of photos from the occupation is not true. We would never…
The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today’s Washington Post reports on a debate yesterday arranged by United Jewish Committees in D.C. among Jewish advocates for…
I am a big fan of Breaking the Silence, the Israeli veterans group which has documented the ways that soldiers serving the occupation are broken down morally and end up doing horrible things. (Demonstrating the principle that occupations will always…
On the fifth anniversary of the dreadful invasion of Iraq, the Times is doing an investigation of the mistakes. Yesterday the paper ran a long piece on the “fateful” decision in May 2003 to disband the Iraqi army, with the…