I’m chagrined that a Roy Belmont comment got lost. I don’t censor comments unless the commenters are claiming to be other people, or they use scatological obscenity and namecalling. Belmont writes: I’m not a professional, but I write a lot…
This morning I did one of the most servile things I’ve ever done. A friend had left her daughter’s homework in her country house over the weekend. Daughter needed it. Instead of all the productive activities I could be doing…
I’m amazed that NPR did a story on the “Great Schlep,” Sarah Silverman’s campaign to get Jewish kids to go to Florida to push their grandparents to vote for Obama and didn’t talk about the Israel issue. I heard some…
Here’s how to send fan mail to our favorite occupation-refuseniks in Israel, Omer Goldman, Mia Tamarin, Sahar Vardi, and Tamar Katz. Wow, 4 of em. (Wish I could take credit for hedline, it’s David Bloom’s.)
Goosebumps material. Or goosesteps. Last night somebody sent me a scary piece against Obama in the Jerusalem Post by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum. I think he emigrated there from the U.S. Rosenblum is adamantly against an Obama effort to revive…
The Republican Jewish Coalition sent out an email today on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s statement of Obama’s secret views about Israel/Palestine (an interpretation I share). RJC boss Matt Brooks sees these views as a source of concern to Jewish voters: As…
From the new Vanity Fair, David Margolick writing about artist/caricaturist David Levine: The New Yorker’s handling of another piece of work, in 2005, this one of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and then Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon sitting around a…
Yesterday I noted that Foreign Affairs turned to an Israeli, Shlomo Ben-Ami, to positively review Israeli Benny Morris’s book 1948 (a book I wasn’t wild about). One of my tipsters sent me this squib from two years back, in which…
A couple of older Jews have chided me for not being more reverent about the Holocaust. But at least they can talk to me. I’m 53, and as I often say, younger Jews are not on the wagon. (Word choice;…