Michael J. Jordan has a great article over at the JTA talking about the contortions people are going through to avoid stating the obvious: Jewish and pro-Israel groups worked to undermine the Durban II conference. Although “it’s no secret who…
Every once in a while I do a post about how many Jews there are in American public life, trying to get more comfortable with talking about it. It’s fascinating on any number of levels, and no one talks about…
“Do you know, by the way, that you were given to me as a present for my Confirmation (there’s also something like a Jewish confirmation)? I was born in ’83, so was 13 when you were born. The 13th birthday…
“Do you know, by the way, that you were given to me as a present for my Confirmation (there’s also something like a Jewish confirmation)? I was born in ’83, so was 13 when you were born. The 13th birthday…
The Times says this front-page report by Nicholas Kulish about murderous attacks on Gypsies, or Roma people, in Hungary is the paper’s second-most-emailed story. As well it should be. Attacks on Gypsies recall the Holocaust, when as many as 600,000…
The Times says this front-page report by Nicholas Kulish about murderous attacks on Gypsies, or Roma people, in Hungary is the paper’s second-most-emailed story. As well it should be. Attacks on Gypsies recall the Holocaust, when as many as 600,000…
I saw a great movie last night, the documentary Defamation, by Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and it is about the consecration of anti-Semitism as the central mode of Jewish identity and the…
Earlier today I quoted Dan Luban saying that Jeffrey Goldberg is the most important Jewish journalist in America. A friend disagrees: Jeff Goldberg is not the most influential or important Jewish Journalist. Brooks, Broder, Krugman, Krauthammer, David Remnick, Sy Hersh,…
Larry Derfner in the Jerusalem Post, exonerating Caryl Churchill’s playlet, 7 Jewish Children, of the charge of anti-Semitism, and saying it’s just critical enough of Israel for Gaza. And re the climactic voice in the play, of the Jewish mother…