Yesterday my friend James North said that the recession/depression/hogwart whatever you want to call it has already been good for us. He had to run; he was going to explain to me today. Last night I saw a friend for…
Jack Ross says that Jeff Blankfort is being too hard on the get-together by the Shalom Center in NY tomorrow: I don’t follow these things, but I don’t believe what he says about Rabbi Arthur Waskow – the guy has…
Pete Seeger says that political change happens in the capillaries. That’s where all the movement goes on. And I like to say that our kids will lead us. They’re smarter than we are. (And that Americans must lead the Middle…
A forceful piece in today’s Washington Post by the realists: We believe that the Arab-Israeli peace process is one issue that requires priority attention. In perhaps no other region was the election of Obama more favorably received than the Middle…
I can’t be alone in saying that the Brad Sherman moment with the auto executives the other day, in which he asked who had flown commercial to D.C. and then who was prepared to sell his plane and fly back…
A few months ago I heard Van Cliburn speaking on NPR. I got the link and see it was March. He said two things that I remember. First, he was already a musical kid at 4 years old when an…
Two Jewish critics of Zionism respond to my posts about the conference Sunday I’m going to, about trying to recuperate the Jewish antiwar tradition… Here is Jack Ross, who is irritated by my description of the conferees as PEP –which…
I can’t find the link but Richard Shipe sent me a Haaretz piece saying our congress is about to get a record number of Jews–45. 32 in the House, 13 in the Senate. Very different proportions, that: well under 10…
I said this a long time ago, that Obama was curtains for Zionism. Bradley Burston in Haaretz is saying to Israelis, Just imagine an Arab prime minister. Yes, exactly: but first you have to give them the power of the…