The other day I posted playwright David Zellnik’s take on Theodor Herzl. Here’s my response: Let’s start with our absolute agreement: Theodor Herzl is one of the greatest figures in Jewish history. It staggers both of us that your play…
After Jonah Goldberg teed the story up, Michael Gerson nails it in the Washington Post today (What in hell am I doing in bed with these guys? I don’t know, I just like it, they’re not scrawny like my usual…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is charged with the serious ruling-class responsibility — or masquerade as it turns out– of vetting Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Given the supremacy of the Democratic Party these days, there are 12 Democrats and…
From the JTA: “Life story, Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews” It doesn’t hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first…
All this week you will hear Jewish voices lifted on behalf of Sonia Sotamayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. No doubt all the dozen or so Jewish senators will vote for her confirmation. Like other minority strivers before…
Long piece by Clark Hoyt, the NYT public editor, on the sociology of the marriage announcements in the New York Times talks about class issues and bloodlines, and same-sex marriages, and the meritocracy– When bloodlines are mentioned, they tend to…
Helena Cobban asked in an email yesterday– apropos of the report that Netanyahu has called powerful Jewish aides to Obama “self-hating Jews”–which is worse: to be called an anti-Semite or a self-hating Jew? Which calumny is more effective in preventing…
Joseph Dana has an interesting take on the report in Haaretz that Netanyahu has described Barack Obama’s top advisers, Jews Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, as self-hating Jews: There is a feeling among certain intellectuals and statesman in Israel that…
If you want to understand the liberal media’s behavior on Israel/Palestine, this is an important post. In it, a powerful editor admits that his views of the conflict are far more left than you’d ever know from his broadcast. He…