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December 2008

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My headline’s a fabrication. Sorry, you got me redhanded. Here’s an interesting thread on a Jewish site about the superior attitudes toward “goyim” that are inculcated in Hebrew schools and other Jewish settings. One woman, Stephanie, says she took her…

Adam Horowitz writes: When I first read this JTA headline: Top U.S. peace negotiator exits, I hoped that Dennis Ross had finally decided to skip town, but it refers to David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for Near East…

Adam Horowitz: Haaretz says members of an exclusive Orthodox synagogue in NY lost $2 billion to Bernie Madoff. According to the New York Post, the synagogue was a breeding ground for Madoff investors given that its president, J. Ezra Merkin,…

Richard Silverstein has a beautiful/savage critique of Ethan Bronner’s Avrum Burg piece in yesterday’s Times. An extended excerpt: There is a certain element of dismissal in the reporter’s portrayal of Burg’s current role in Israeli society and in his appraisal…

Caroline Kennedy’s answer to a Politico question re Israel/Jerusalem is too vague for an unnamed leader Politico runs to, anonymously: On Israel, always a central issue in New York politics, she responded to a question about supporting an Israeli airstrike…