Jack Ross responds to my post of yesterday about the left being claimed by the Israel lobby: When I read Dailykos regularly they seemed to be just finishing off the last prominent defender of Israel, a poor soul who was…
Jack Ross emailed me from the road to make some points: You can’t take Dershowitz seriously, he’s talking out of his ass. Yes I was upset that Carter didn’t speak, but at least he came on stage and was honored,…
Ralph Seliger has taken on my Zionist history guru Jack Ross re the progressive tendencies inside Zionism. I’m going to offer Seliger’s response to Ross’s recent post. Then Ross’s response to Seliger. I imagine Seliger may wish to respond to…
I’m glad for my dialogue with Ralph Seliger because while he hasn’t convinced me of much–and I venture I’ve convinced him of even less–speaking selfishly, it’s good to be reminded of my elders in my own community. We all have…
Jack Ross, who is writing a book about the anti-Zionist rabbi Elmer Berger, had this response to Ralph Seliger’s comments earlier today: I could go on forever about the absurdity of his premises about anti-Semitism and anti-anti-Semitism, but I’ll resist….
Just received a note from Jack Ross saying “Kahanist Thunderbolt Is Going Under!” It referred me to this editorial from Seth Lipsky, editor of the New York Sun, warning that the paper is scrambling for new funding and may well…
Jack Ross recommends Iowa Republican Jim Leach’s speech at the Democratic convention. “He said a lot of things no Democrat will say, like how we’re occupying a part of the world that doesn’t take well to western occupation. Most significant…
Jack Ross had a sharp historical response to the news from Ma’ariv I blogged about earlier today: I long felt that Israel’s blockade and “withdrawal” from Gaza resembled nothing so much as Stalin’s Ukrainian policy, but after reading Pat Buchanan’s…
Yesterday I wrote about going to an Irish wake. Jack Ross offered his own experience: “Four years ago when my grandmother died I had a friend visiting from San Francisco. When I tried to explain shiva to him (notably without…