Last night I was in the city walking around with a sense of holiday cheer. No one has any money but itâs a good thing, and then I walked down 47th Street and liked the outfits of the orthodox Jews…
is hinted in this photo album Time Magazine is running, from college at Occidental, in which he’s wearing a wedding band. The man was always on his own.
New book by Times reporter Pat Tyler says George Tenet raged against the necon Jews while bathing in Prince Bandar’s pool. Interesting that Tenet wrote a whole book about Iraq and left Jews out of it. Will this finally give…
NPR did an OK story on Madoff’s effect on Jewish charities yesterday, ably reported by the able Tovia Smith, but it included a line that irritated me no end. See if you can spot my button-pusher in this excerpt: Jeffrey…
If you’re a blogger you get to do stuff like that: put your favorite Cream album in a headline for whatever reason–a reference to the first Jewish Prime Minister of England. Yakov writes to me this morning: “Did you happen…
One of the goals of J Street in its campaign against extremist settlers and the Hebron Fund is to cause a divide in Jewish culture. Itâs very frontal of J Street, and must be celebrated. Theyâre calling out the settlers…
Yesterday J Street made an important statement about people in the States who support extremist settlers in the West Bank, and it singled out the Hebron Fund. Well, another organization that does so is the charity that Adam Horowitz turned…
Further evidence that Israel/Palestine is going to be on Obama’s front burner. Today in Washington at the National Council on US-Arab Relations, the well-spoken Iraqi Ambassador to the US, Samir Sumaida’ie said the most essential task the new administration faces…
On December 18, the shministim, or Israeli conscientious objectors will hand-deliver a petition to the Israeli Defense Ministry. Please sign the letter today! This appeal is aimed at the United States. Here, watch these kids, just kids, appeal to you…