Adam Horowitz writes: Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas is on the list of names linked to the Central Fund of Israel, the nonprofit charity operating out of a fabric store in New York that is opposed to a two-state solution and…
In the Times–of London of course. Brings back Holocaust images. Says my tipster: “echoes memories of my father in law from Buchenwald.” Though the brave Nick Goldberg who runs the LA Times Op-Ed page publishes this piece by Eyad El-Sarraj:…
Neil Kadisha is an interesting guy. He made a fortune in aerospace and telecommunications and is on the Forbes 400 richest Amerians list. He does real estate in the southwest. Said to be worth nearly $1 billion. He was a…
Ynet is notioning 3 names for the job of Obama’s Middle East envoy: Colin Powell, Dan Kurtzer, and Dennis Ross. I’m for Powell, because I think he gets it and despises the JINSA crowd. Ynet says of Ross and Kurtzer:…
Here’s a startling post by John Mearsheimer saying that there is now a Palestinian majority in historical Palestine due to “reverse aliyah:” The second trend is the large number of Israelis who have emigrated to North America and Europe, and…
Bernard Madoff, the alleged fraudster and $50 billion Ponzi man, got tons of money from Jewish establishment figures. He was on the board of Yeshiva U. And one of his victims was a Jewish-oriented foundation, called the Lappin Foundation, which…
I think of Norman Finkelstein as at his best when he’s engaging an antagonist’s writing: Alan Dershowitz, Benny Morris, Joan Peters. Someone whose bad conclusions he can take apart through a passionate examination of the factual record. Well, now that…
Here is an album of pictures from inside the “Peace House,” the Israeli settlement in Hebron that was evacuated by Israeli soldiers last week. Below on the left is Nadia Matar, the woman who has urged settlement supporters to give…
I’ve got a new friend named Yakov. He gave me a donation and said he wanted to rant about something. What Yakov says about antisemitism is smart and interesting: Back in the shtetl every Jew knew who the anti-Semites were,…