Ralph Seliger explains his side of the dispute with Jews Uniting Jews, which is sponsoring a conference to revive Jewish antiwar feeling this Sunday in NY. Ralph had written an article taking on the conference, in the Forward: I regret…
what the Occupation is like. Here is a disgusting tale of soldiers shooting up a West Bank town at 1:45 in the morning with random firings, to show off to a girl, or because they’re drunk. And here, from the…
On Sunday there’s a conference of Jews in New York seeking to recover the progressive anti-war tradition in Jewish life. I’m planning to attend. Rabbis Ellen Lippmann and Arthur Waskow. J.J. Goldberg, Amy Goodman. Register here. Oh, also: Michael Ratner…
I recommend the dialogue between Richard Witty and Aaron Levitt in this blogpost of mine from last night. Levitt says he was in Chabad for a number of years and observed racism in the group. I would like to add…
Here is what a dubious character I am. Yesterday I was watching Charlie Rose when he talked with Jon Alter, Eric Foner, and Mark Halperin about historical ideas surrounding the Obama transition. Well I looked up Halperin on Wikipedia, and…
I’m always the last to know. This is a beautiful short report — I said short, so you can read it right now, backbiters and procrastinators– from a visit to the Ariel settlement in 2003 or so. I wish I…
describing the patrons of the Hebron Fund as being “overweight,” by and large, and from the outer boroughs. Sounded more snobby than I am. And yes, prejudiced. There is some truth in the observation, but I should have done it…
Think of the controversy in the U.S. over buildings on slave cemeteries. We stopped such construction in lower Manhattan. Think about construction at Auschwitz, international controversy. In Jerusalem, the celebrated American architect Frank Gehry is moving ahead with a museum…
I’m falling down on the job. I’ve done nothing on last week’s Times parody, nothing about the brilliant “Tom Friedman” column in which he resigns for getting things wrong (“I have made a decision: as of today, I will no…