Adam Horowitz writes: Check out this amazing letter from the Israeli peace activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan. She sent it to the recipients of the Sakharov Prize. Peled-Elhanan helped start the organization the Bereaved Families Forum, a network of Palestinian and Israeli…
Adam Horowitz writes: While the rest of the world sees the Israeli colonization of the West Bank as one of the core issues to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, more and more Israelis are seeing it a great chance to get away….
This list of Harvard Law faculty’s books includes three by Alan Dershowitz. Three in a year. I love a cigar but sometimes I take it out of my mouth, Groucho said (he was talking to a guy on the $64,000…
Adam Horowitz writes: When I first read this JTA headline: Top U.S. peace negotiator exits, I hoped that Dennis Ross had finally decided to skip town, but it refers to David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for Near East…
Adam Horowitz: Haaretz says members of an exclusive Orthodox synagogue in NY lost $2 billion to Bernie Madoff. According to the New York Post, the synagogue was a breeding ground for Madoff investors given that its president, J. Ezra Merkin,…
The difference between the NY Review of Books and the London Review of Books is that the NYRB contains currents of Jeffrey-Goldbergism–it is agonized about Israel and not entirely sure how to think about it, though it often runs excellent…
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…