Here’s Newsweek’s piece on the rich holding back on ostentatious spending because it’s not cool right now. Almost all the magazine’s examples of rich guys would seem to be Jewish: Richard Fuld, somebody Koch, Ron Perelman, Steven Schwarzman, after whom…
My father just turned 83. At Thanksgiving the other night we went round the table giving thanks and he said he would wait for everyone else to say thanks before he said his. By the time we finished people had…
The Australian anti-Zionist, and Jewish atheist Antony Loewenstein, is visiting the States. He talked at Harvard last week. Told this anecdote: I met a group of influential left-oriented Jews in Melbourne last year. They wanted to engage with me and…
My wife and I went to a family gathering yesterday in the neighborhood she grew up in, Chestnut Hill. The Nebraska game was on and a few of us talked about international politics. We talked about human rights in China,…
Thanksgiving has become a secular religious festival. Last night, we went round the table saying what we were thankful for. Few of the thanks were explicitly religious. Though one nephew said he was thankful that his father is a Christian….
Imagine if Palestinians took over the King David Hotel and killed a bunch of people. I’m sure there are some Palestinians who would like to do that. It would be further proof that there is no one to deal with…
I said earlier this week that I was going to get to Jeremy Ben-Ami’s comments at the Jewish antiwar conference of last Sunday. Ben-Ami is the brains of J Street, the alternative Jewish lobby; and he was introduced with genuine…
For a year I’ve thought that the best analysis of the peace process is Henry Siegman’s fabulous piece in LRB last year saying it has been a “scam” aimed at covering Israel’s accession of more territory. Now here is a…
Does it surprise you that liberal internationalists wish to provide neocons political cover unto the last day? Not really. George Packer wants David Frum to replace Bill Kristol as a columnist at the Times. Frum is a smart guy and…