I stayed up till midnight last night to watch Game 7. I think I stayed up till nearly 1:30 a.m. (reading The Golden Notebook, too) for Game 2. This is wrong. I became a baseball fan watching games in the…
More on the rabbi that the Washington Post dares to dignify as an “American” Jewish “leader” who is helping McCain. From the Magnes Zionist’s takeout on Shlomo Riskin, colonialist rabbi: seduced by the dark side of religious Zionism, and driven…
Memo to the Republican Jewish Coalition: In Karen DeYoung’s bio, Soldier, Colin Powell said that Truman’s Sec’y of State George Marshall–a former Army chief of staff–was his “revered” role model, especially in his principled opposition to Truman’s ’48 decision to…
Another example of the ways that Israel-first talk is politely bleeped out of the American conversation. Joe Klein has a tearjerking column about his late friend David Ifshin, “McCain’s Radical Pal,” who as an anti-Vietnam radical gave a speech in…
The other day I picked up a Haaretz report on the olive harvest outside Hebron, and the nutso colonialists trying to break it up. Here is a Chinese television report on the same episode. Let’s be clear: Israelis are informed…
By James North There’s one scene in the just-released film Body of Lies that shows perfectly why the American popular understanding of the Middle East is so distorted. Much of the big-budget film is set in Amman, Jordan. Leonardo DiCaprio…
The other night Anna Baltzer spoke so movingly about Palestinian children never getting to see the sea. Here is an essay that lawyer Diana Buttu wrote for NPR. I don’t believe it was ever read on air, of course: “Please,…
Last night’s baseball celebration by the amazing Tampa Bay [Devil] Rays provided a moment of recognition for American Jews as powerful as the Sandy Koufax moments of 40 years ago. At midnight, on the podium accepting the American League championship…
I can’t really complain about working for nothing when my farflung fossickers are doing all my work for me, can I? The latest feed from Jeff Blankfort, in California. The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American…