From the JTA: Empire State Building celebrates Hanukkah alongside Christmas by assigning the Jewish state’s colors, blue and white, to Hanukkah. Am I the only one whose dual loyalty alarm’s going off?
Adam Horowitz writes: Day two of the Israeli Gaza assault has begun. The final casualty figures from Day one include at least 230 Palestinians killed and over 800 injured, while one Israeli was killed and 6 injured. More Israeli air…
Richard Silverstein on the religious/literary angle: It is the seventh night of Hanukah, and Sol Salbe tells me that the military operation’s name, Solid Lead (or “Cast Lead”), derives from Chaim Nachman Bialik’s children’s poem, For Hanukah: Teacher bought a…
In the only democracy in the Middle East, Israeli soldiers opened fire on Palestinians in the West Bank protesting the Gaza slaughter. Maybe better analogy than my headline: Did you notice that Greece, the birthplace of democracy, is in turmoil…
This morning I was thinking that the Gaza slaughter is like Deir Yassin. For Deir Yassin was rationalized and still is as a security operation, eliminating a hostile village near Jerusalemm, and it killed a hecatomb, over 100 people. The…
The discourse is changing under our feet. I keep saying this, people. It’s true. Here is the pioneering Greg Mitchell writing in Editor & Publisher–and vocalizing consonants and vowels that you only usually hear in the European press… And note…
It’s just a theory, and yes I’m an optimist. But the grotesque events in Gaza rise above, well, the previous grotesque events in Gaza. And here is the great Glenn Greenwald attacking Marty Peretz for his disgusting rationalization of the…
The Union for Reform Judaism, fresh from its support for the Iraq war, is now cheering the Gaza slaughter as a proportional response to rocket fire from the blockaded territory, and celebrating the Bush administration for its support. Rabbi Eric…
Do I wish that J Street were more emphatic and angry? Of course. But its statement last night on the massacring of scores of Palestinian civilians must be welcomed. It represents a significant demurral from the feverish support for Israeli…