in this snaky manner an hour ago or so: This article supersedes an article published earlier this week on Norway which contained inaccuracies, and has been withdrawn. David Horovitz, where is the apology? And just what was inaccurate?
Bruce Wolman of Bethesda, MD, lived in Norway for more than 20 years. He reads the Norwegian press in Norwegian and offers the following exclusive report: According to NTB, the Norwegian wire service, Norway’s Finance Minister and Socialist Left party…
Columbia had its semi-annual University Lecture last night: history professor Ira Katznelson’s thoughts on tolerance and liberalism, using the example of the history of Jews in England, from their expulsion in the 1200s to their readmission in the 1650s to…
A lot of the life of this website is a response to a challenge that Tony Judt issued two years ago: “Why is the American Jewish community so determined to convince itself that we are living in 1938? Why does…
Yesterday I caught part of PBS travel guru Rick Steves’s wonderful trip to Iran on television. His whole message was great, till he spoke of “family values” in Iran. That’s why people support the Islamic republic, he said, they have…
A week or so back I wrote that in my 50s I am past caring whether someone calls me a self-hating Jew, and a friend asked me to explain this attitude. When you get to be in your 50s you…
I visit my wife in the bathtub most mornings. A ritual of unemployment, or of the new employment, the home office. My wife is into yoga, and she told me about the feeling of a world community in yoga: anywhere…
Every day things are changing. A progressive’s election changes the water in the aquarium. David Ignatius in the Washington Post has a fabulous piece attacking the tax-deductible funds that fuel the Israeli colonies. He makes the point we’ve made many…