Jack Ross sent along this piece attacking Marty Peretz’s rebarbative response to young Jewish online journalists who are enraged by Gaza. Peretz called the kids selfhating Jews, or words to that effect: “hatred of their inheritance.” (Son, here is your…
Just got up, just heard Steve Inskeep of Morning Edition on NPR angrily asking the Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor (whom Horowitz dispatched on this site last night) what the goals were, when it was going to be over, aren’t you…
Jack Ross writes: I meant my post the other day about Wilhelmine Germany all in good fun, but I have to say that the folks on the message board who made such remarks as “would that we could send you…
Jack Ross on my assimilationism: Does your wife really celebrate your holidays too? My line is that if I had lived in Wilhelmine Germany or even in a certain place and time in this country I would have been a…
I had a New York night. Don’t have them often these days, now that I’m living in the woods and feel the economy like a great stony hand on my shoulder. But: I went to a party in Brooklyn and…
Jack Ross: The point I was trying to make in large part was that Lincoln was never a sincere abolitionist, he campaigned explicitly on simply limiting slavery to the territories and on a Constitutional amendment that would have enshrined slavery…
Two reader/friends have attacked me for being in the Lincoln cult. I’d take both of them on now but for two things: 1, I don’t know much about Lincoln, and 2, I am interested chiefly in Lincoln’s intellectual/political progress as…
Jack Ross went to a Rabbis for Human Rights conference in Washington today and reports that Avraham Burg was asked a question about whether he’s a Zionist, and said, he’s always tempted to make a joke about this question then…
I saw Jack Ross the other day in New York city and heard his rabbi refer to him as a “silent genius.” Nice words. One reason I’m drawn to Jack is that he utterly lacks a problem I have: I…