The New York Times management remains a sanctuary for neoconservatives. Why I don’t know. I’m looking into this in my way (weissphilip@yahoo.com). Some datapoints: 1, last February, the Times endorsed McCain and Clinton for the respective party nominations. 2, neocon…
I don’t understand how anyone can write a long article about a Jewish monologuist doing a long piece on Jewish identity, in January 2009, with a picture of Golda Meir as one of his touchstones, and hte usual anguish about…
Below you will find a painful exchange of emails over Gaza between two Kansas City friends who disagree. You can skip my homily and go to them right now! Here’s my homily. As I keep emphasizing, it is essential right…
[Photo from Jiser’s Flickr collection] Yesterday Adam Horowitz did a great post here about Rabbi Brant Rosen’s beautiful group, Rabbis Speak Out! condemning the Gaza massacres. Adam pointed out that Rabbi David Saperstein of the Reform Jews is not on…
My experience of the journey of self-knowledge is that every time you turn the corner, there’s a new issue. That is, if you’re conscious and engaged in that process; and not everyone is. The poet Robert Bly once said (at…
The initial reviews are in on Muammar Qaddafi’s “One-State Solution” article and they’re scathing. The first round of letters have been printed in the Times, here are some highlights: “Let’s give [the two-state solution] a try rather than clandestinely ramble…
Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss’s] Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote…
Further evidence that Israel was just seeking a pretext. Israel was even planning that ghastly attack on the police graduating ceremony. Rogue state: The idea to bombard the closing ceremony of the Gaza police course was internally criticized in the…