Here is a wonderful blog item by Scott MacLeod of Time Magazine, about Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the House yesterday. The perspicacious MacLeod notes Condi’s words doubting the two-state solution. Our concern is growing that without a serious political prospect…
Yesterday CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) held a conference on fighting “Jewish defamers of Israel.” A couple hundred people in the basement of the Park Avenue Synagogue– that beacon to assimilationist German Jews. I…
I went to a party last night in the city and met an Israeli. Handsome, tall, a chest as broad as a desk. We talked about movement between the U.S. and Israel, and I asked him about the Israeli reputation…
One of Israel’s most fascinating functions for American Jewry is, It is our id. Here we have responsibility, logic, power, and indirection. There they have brawn, testosterone, impulse, straightforwardness. When I was young, women used to say that over in…
The best comment on the horrifying Desmond Tutu blacklisting in Minnesota comes from Tony Karon, who grew up in South Africa and notes that he heard the same maligning of Tutu from the apartheid leaders. (God does Karon’s blog look…
A little while ago in New York’s East Village, I met the playwright David Zellnik to talk about the latest with his sweeping historical play: “Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and Dreams of Theodor Herzl.” The play offers…
The Nation has scooped the N.Y. Times and Washington Post with a fine piece of reporting on the great Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Here is the most important paragraph: Gideon Levy says he is less constrained in his punditry than most…
Here is an ugly story about a Florida family denied the right to travel from Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport after they visited the West Bank. Why? They’re Palestinian-American, visiting Palestinian relatives. The family have American passports; but for a couple of…
In the latest Commentary, Hillel Halkin, a New York-born columnist for the Forward who made aliyah after the 6-Day War and who I have pointed out before sees the Bible as a deed to the land of Israel for the…