Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, holds the Alger Hiss chair in social studies at Bard College and serves at the pleasure of the school’s president. He has lately been informed that his contract will not be extended beyond July…
Can we politicize Israeli model Bar Refaeli appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s recent swimsuit edition? Of course. Today in Ha’aretz Aluf Benn asks whether Refaeli will make people forget about Gaza and sees her as part of Israel’s…
Item: A young friend of mine is looking for a job in journalism. On his behalf, I reluctantly emailed a friend who works at a big company. He wrote back to say there are actually a lot of opportunities at…
In 1855, when Lincoln was helping to form the Republican Party out of the remnants of the Whig Party around a simple moral question, the extension of slavery, a lifelong friend asked him if he was a Know-Nothing, a member…
Jayyous, a village near Nablus in the northern West Bank, has become a center for Palestinian resistance to the path of the wall, which confiscates Palestinian land. Weekly demonstrations there have brought crowds and some media attention. Israel raided the…
The coalition building fracas continues in Israel with the Likud and Kadima fighting over who can bring Avigdor Lieberman into their coalition. Lieberman has put forth several demands including creating a citizenship bill that requires loyalty as a condition for…
Does everyone know that punim means face in Yiddish? I guess so. This is in a Steven Weber post about the economic stimulus, and is further evidence that Yiddish, the gift of my people, has fully entered the American vocabulary….
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli’s father says he doesn’t want Leonardo DiCaprio to think of marrying his daughter without converting.
The greatest threat to the Israel lobby is on this excerpt of the Laura Flanders Showat 2:00 or so. You will see a Jewish academic couple participating in the Jews Say No demonstration that happened last Thursday outside the World…