The New York Times buries the news: young Jews don’t feel attached to Israel and their rabbis want to criticize the country in the wake of Gaza, but keep their mouths shut because of older donors. Rabbi Jill Jacobs speaks courageously on the divide.
Explaining why Edward Snowden took his momentous step, James Bamford says, “Among his most shocking discoveries, he told me, was the fact that the N.S.A. was routinely passing along the private communications of Americans to a large and very secretive Israeli military organization.” The damage of the special relationship.
New York Times headline on evidence in Israeli courts — New Light on Hamas Role in Killings of Teenagers That Fueled Gaza War — lies when it suggests that Hamas is implicated in the filings. It is in fact exculpated of the operation by an investigator’s statement.
Late last Friday, we announced a New Yorker fiction parody contest– inspired by the magazine’s…