I went to dinner last night at a good friend’s, and there were beautiful Easter foods. I was the only Jew there, but didn’t think about that till today. There were some Europeans, and a Muslim. A sense of American…
Lately Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon stuck to her guns in the face of an attack by the Anti-Defamation League and said that the school will keep Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its commencement speaker, notwithstanding his criticism of…
Having blown the Obama seder story once today, I want another crack at it. The Washington Post gets it right: this is a lowkey, familiar event. Just look at that picture again. It’s an intimate setting, and the people seem…
Earlier this week the Washington Post continued the plague of the neoconservatives by running a piece by Elliott Abrams in favor of the Israeli colonies, and including this ugly statement: Settlement activity is not diminishing the territory of a future…
Everyone talks about putting pressure on Israel. What does that mean? Here’s a sage post by Steve Walt on what Obama should do in the face of Israeli intransigence re the two-state solution. Besides ending tax-deductible contributions to the settler…
I missed a stretcher. Yesterday Clark University President John Bassett wrote a letter seeking to justify his censorship of Norman Finkelstein, who had been scheduled to give a speech on campus, and his letter included this statement: What especially exaggerates…
My friend Mark expands on his religious thoughts of earlier today: Paul wasn’t a relativist. As he makes clear in Romans, even though he doesn’t have all the modern scholarship on man’s approach to reality (function of myth, etc.) he’s…
Bruce Wolman writes: Howard Schneider has at last settled in as the Washington Post’s new Jerusalem Bureau Chief. Hence it was finally time for a trip over to the Occupied Territories to cover the other half of his beat. Setting…