The US has called Israel’s seizure of 1000 acres on the West Bank for yet another settlement “unproductive.” Another feckless complaint

Alvin Rosenfeld accuses anti-Zionist Jews of being “Jew-haters.” Isn’t he showing some ageism when he seeks to discredit Hedy Epstein by citing her age, 90, as alleged evidence against her rationality? Marc Ellis at Mondo

Longtime Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has a book coming out in two weeks called…

Phil Weiss considers himself outdoorsy but it upset him that lots of his friends had seen bears in the wild and he’d only seen one on the streets of Mumbai with a rope through its nose. All that changed yesterday, in the Poconos, when he saw five bears in the woods.