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…
My dear friend Peter Kaplan is leaving the New York Observer (2 years after I did). A few quick thoughts: –An era ends. Print/newspapers/the legacy of William Shawn and Harold Ross, that arc of literary sophistication and great New York…
A few months back I caught Mark Cohen’s amazing lecture on anti-Semitism in Muslim societies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. (Can’t get a link right now, can’t get on the site). It looks like he’s reprising the lecture next Tuesday…
I approached a realist oracle this morning to learn what to think about the Harman scandal. Quoth the oracle: There does not seem to me to be anything new in Israel and the lobby trying to quash the indictment of…
I approached a realist oracle this morning to learn what to think about the Harman scandal. Quoth the oracle: There does not seem to me to be anything new in Israel and the lobby trying to quash the indictment of…
Tomorrow is Holocaust Remembrance Day. In his column today, Roger Cohen is saying, Jews need to get “closure” on the victimization narrative in order for Israel to avoid apartheid. In his response to that column, Leonard Fein basically agrees, but…
From The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: The New York Times described [Saban] as “perhaps the most politically connected mogul in Hollywood, throwing his weight and money around Washington and, increasingly, the world,…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…