Amitai Etzioni is quoting a Council on Foreign Relations type saying we have to live with a nuclear Iran. He won’t say who. For weeks I’ve meant to record a similar data point: that Fareed Zakaria said as much on…
Last night the Center for Jewish History hosted a panel on Obama and postracial politics, and I dropped in. Three panelists– 2 Jewish, one black, and most of the talk was about Obama and Jews. The oldest panelist was Samuel…
In a comment on this site the other day, journalist David Samuels took a neat swipe at me. He said the figure on 1.1 million Jews killed in the destruction of the second temple period comes from the Roman historian…
Yesterday’s Maariv had a slashing piece on the Olmert corruption scandal, by Ofer Shelah, asserting that Diaspora Jewry’s romantic projections on Israel are undermining Israeli leadership. Shelah goes beyond corruption to the “way we [Israelis] perceive our lives here.” And…
Jeremiah Haber reports rumors that Haaretz has fired Amira Hass, who was on sabbatical, and Meron Rapoport. Haber finds the Rapoport rumor more troubling, as he was filing such fine reports from the Occupied Territories. If this is true, it…
Scott McClellan is a good man, is all I have to say. He’s a whistleblower of a sort, he’s put country ahead of party and chain-of-command. He even describes how Bush was converted to the neocon delusion, that peace in…
I love creative reporting. After a sermon surfaced from Pastor John Hagee in which he said that Jews are not “spiritually alive” and that Hitler was merely a “hunter” who responded to their weakness, Mother Jones’s Justin Elliott wanted to…
In The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier writes: A few days ago a friend of mine published a miserable piece on a matter about which I care deeply, and I am of a mind to be withering about it. The decline…
How interesting that the equation Zionism is racism, such a bloody bone of contention at the U.N.,is now cropping up in the work of Jewish anti-Zionists. 2 examples I’ve seen in the last month: –Avigail Abarbanel, a psychotherapist born in…