From Adam Horowitz: Another blow to Jewish continuity. Bernie Madoff, that 7-letter-word that begins with an “a” (or “b”), killed the Picower Foundation. A description of Picower’s aims: The Foundation’s grantmaking areas are in education, medical innovation and an equitable…
In the “Get a Life” category, two recent attacks on good Samantha Power: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency calls Samantha Power a “strident Israel critic.” The Zionist Organization of America calls Samantha Power “deeply anti-Israel.” The JTA piece is about Brit…
To his great credit, Ethan Bronner of the New York Times does an Avraham Burg story today. A little late, but there it is. Adam Horowitz writes: Not much new here, but its still great to get some of these…
Adam Horowitz reports: From JTA’s report on Jewish givers to Clinton Foundation: (full list here). Haim Saban, an AIPAC activist and the founder of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy [of the Brookings Institution], donated $5 million to $10…
Interesting story of hardline settlers taking over a Palestinian field in the West Bank, claiming they have title to it thru a paper trail that goes to the U.S. The Israeli government has not recognized the Sumarin sale or any…
Adam Horowitz writes: There is no way the Lobby avoided the Madoff collapse. Read Haaretz: The loss to Jewish philanthropy as a whole has been estimated between $600 million and $1 billion. “I consider that, if anything, a conservative estimate,”…
Yesterday J Street made an important statement about people in the States who support extremist settlers in the West Bank, and it singled out the Hebron Fund. Well, another organization that does so is the charity that Adam Horowitz turned…
Adam Horowitz writes: The summer between my junior and senior year in college 14 years ago, I had the honor of interning at a magazine called Lies of Our Times. I worked with Edward S. Herman; the magazine was an…
Two years ago the state of Israel began selling a national bank, Leumi, to private investors. One of those investors was Ezra Merkin. That’s him, shaking hands with Sharon in the picture at left. That picture was in today’s Times,…