The press continues to sidestep a central issue re Madoff. The geography of Madoff’s fraud is Jewish geography. These people trusted Madoff because he was Jewish and other Jews liked him. Steven Spielberg, Mort Zuckerman, the Lappin Fund: Our mission…
Sean Lee in Beirut sent me the following stirring commentary on “Waltz With Bashir,” which the Times featured yesterday. I offer Lee’s statement with this optimistic comment in advance: The lesson in my headline is one that I also tend…
Angry Arab makes fun of western reporters who say that throwing shoes at someone is a sign of disrespect in Arab culture, as if it isn’t here, too. Gabriel at JSF makes fun of what he says will be a…
Here are two photographs Jeff Blankfort took in the Bakaa refugee camp in Jordan in August 1970. They show young Palestinian kids, Ashbal, or Lion Cubs, as they were called, getting ready to fight to retake the land taken from…
Two years ago the American Jewish Committee published this report saying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, written by Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University. Now the JPost has interviewed Rosenfeld and asked him about Jewish “self-hatred.” Says Rosenfeld: Sadly, it does exist,…
Jeff Blankfort responds to the Times review of Waltz with Bashir: I read the explanation by the filmmaker Ari Folman as to why he focused on the Israeli side. It is typical of the way Israelis and their supporters have…
Jerry Slater, author of an important analysis of New York Times vs. Haaretz in coverage of Israel/Palestine, writes: Another in the chronicle of New York Times whitewashes of Israel. In today’s Times, Ethan Bronner reviews Waltz With Bashir, an Israeli…
Adam Horowitz reports: IDT is a telecommunications company based in New Jersey. Here’s a piece about Howard Jonas, the guy behind IDT, in the Forward back in 2002. Jonas is a big philanthropist–to Jewish causes. Interestingly, the Forward says nothing…
Lawrence Leamer has a good piece on Huffpo about Bernard Madoff and other Jews breaking into Palm Beach, FL, society, and says this: For the elite Jewish world, it [Madoff scandal] is a curse of almost biblical proportion. The only…