Chris Varley sends along this picture he took last spring of Baruch Goldstein’s hallowed grave in a settlement near Hebron in the Occupied Territories. Note the stones on the grave, marks of reverence in Jewish tradition. Goldstein, a doctor who…
Cat Stevens was denied entry to Israel, where he was going to give a concert at the 10th anniversary of the Peres Center for peace. Because he’d given money to Hamas, Israel says. A black eye for President Shimon Peres….
Here is an editorial from my favorite newspaper decrying the disruption of the Palestinian olive harvest by violent settlers during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Thus spake Haaretz: They have been stealing the land of powerless farmers for decades [my…
I put out a request for the hummus recipe at Anna Baltzer’s talk the other night in Kingston, N.Y. Here it is, from the maker, Pia: I’m glad you liked my hummus and I’m glad to send you the recipe….
Here is a piece of forcible innocence by leftwinger Stephen Zunes. He is staggered that the Republican Jewish Coalition ads attacking Obama have had an effect, that Obama has stepped away from his statement that Palestinians suffer the most and…
On Saturday night I had a new friend to dinner, a Russian Jew who lives in the city who I met a few months ago thru this blog. He grew up in Siberia, spent a year or two in St….
Comes now an Israeli who laments that Barack Obama is not owned enough by the Israel lobby: We are about to see a president who has nothing to do with Judaism, Jews, and the State of Israel. He doesn’t know…
From an aesthetic standpoint, I must say that Sarah Palin’s expenditures worked. She looks glamorous, soigne, natural. I had been noticing this before the story broke. I thought, For a hick, that girl sure knows how to put it together….
Further evidence of how screwed-up America is when it comes to Israel/Palestine. The AP reports that a Swedish company, Assa Abloy, the world’s largest lockmaker, is moving a factory from the apartheid West Bank following church groups’ complaints: The announcement…