Here’s the photo I referred to earlier. Gosh. AP. By Pablo Martinez Monsivais. I’m not cynical about Obama. Sometimes this stuff is real, the change stuff. Wonder how many people who voted for the war in Iraq would do this…
My friend John O’Keeffe says a foto on the front page of the Irish Times and USA Today this morning showed Obama embracing an American veteran with artificial legs. I cannot find it, but O’Keeffe wonders whether this gesture does…
Last night I heard something too stupendous to be believed. I was in a Christian church serving the Arab community in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, for a presentation on apartheid in Palestine. During the Q-and-A, a local Arab leader, Dr. Ahmad…
My wife is also a writer, and last year she got an assignment to write about feng-shui’ing our house–the Chinese science/religion of design and energy. I was livid. We were about to put our house on the market, and we…
I’ve gotten many friends thru this blog. One of them is a quiet person, as an emailer anyway, named Anne Silver. She lives in the Bay Area and always apologizes for taking my time. She is obviously kind. Her name…
Richard Cohen has a column in the Washington Post recommending several names for Obama’s cabinet; and typically–because I am a Jewish non-Zionist and Cohen is pro-Zionist (he once said that reading Walt and Mearsheimer had him singing “Hatikvah”)–I find myself…
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (headquartered in the U.S.) says Obama chose Emanuel strictly for his attack-dog executive abilities: One thing Emanuel is not, all agree, is the president-elect’s conciliatory signal to the Jewish community after a campaign fraught with worries…
The liberation movements of the 70s and 80s transformed me personally. I had made many homophobic and sexist comments over the years, really out of ignorance, and my consciousness actually changed. I’ve undergone a similar transformation re Arabs, whom I…
Underscoring Jack Ross’s point below, here is the Independent reporting on tomorrow’s mayoral election in Jerusalem: Any last shred of pretence that the election is anything other than tribal warfare between the ultra-Orthodox and secular collapsed when the rabbi, Meir…