Jewish history in the making, which way will it go? To the arms of the lobby, or the humanists? From JWeekly in the Bay Area: Of the 37 films with ties to Israel in this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film…
Israel’s Foreign Ministry wants to spend $150,000 to plant shills on websites around the world to fight Israel’s bad image. Happily, Rona Kuperboim at Ynet is agin it, for the right reasons, calls it thought-police: Foreign Ministry officials are fighting…
From The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, June 16, 1895: I was indifferent to my Jewishness; let us say that it was beneath the level of my awareness. But just as anti-Semitism forces the half-hearted, cowardly, and self-seeking Jews into…
Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an advertisement mentioning service to a number of…
Superb video of the Friday demo at the Bi’lin wall on the 5th anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling that the wall is illegal. The video crescendos with the appearance of a large truck with a water cannon,…
Helena Cobban asked in an email yesterday– apropos of the report that Netanyahu has called powerful Jewish aides to Obama “self-hating Jews”–which is worse: to be called an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew? Which calumny is more effective in preventing…
Oh my. New mood on campus. Sunday’s Washington Post runs a review of The Attack on the Liberty, a new book by James Scott, the son of a survivor of the Israeli attack on a Navy ship during the Six…
Okay, so it’s not the best reporting. It gets a number of crucial facts wrong, and everyone seems much more concerned about how the reporter smells than anything else, but isn’t it still a sign of progress? Bil’in is becoming…
Thirteen American rabbis have initiated an important new project called Ta’anit Tzedek – The Jewish Fast for Gaza. The rabbis are calling for a communal monthly fast in support of the following goals: To call for a lifting of the…