Yesterday I heard Robert Siegel of NPR doing two Christmas stories. One was about NORAD tracking Santa’s movements, as it does every year. And in another story he signed off by saying, “Happy Christmas.” Siegel is of my generation: a…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out an email today saying that the chain that owns Long John Silver’s restaurant in Minnesota has apologized for giving out a toy to child patrons with a bible passage on it. A…
A good thing that Yahoo carries stories from the Agence France-Presse. Otherwise I wouldn’t know that American Jews have any power. From a story on Madoff destroying Elie Wiesel’s foundation, which allegedly serves international understanding (but surely denies that gypsies…
Obama has named James Steinberg and Jacob Lew as deputy secretaries of state under Clinton. I suppose I will have to wait for the Israeli press to tell me whether both men are Jewish. Steinberg helped write Obama’s speech to…
Robert Lenzner is a reporter for Forbes who was on the Leon Charney Report the other night–a somewhat smalltime show that airs on Channel 25 in New York and often has a Jewish theme to it. Charney served under Jimmy…
My headline’s a fabrication. Sorry, you got me redhanded. Here’s an interesting thread on a Jewish site about the superior attitudes toward “goyim” that are inculcated in Hebrew schools and other Jewish settings. One woman, Stephanie, says she took her…
I’ve been reading Michael Wolff’s shrewd/thoroughly-enjoyable bio of Rupert Murdoch for a review and have one preliminary observation. Wolff routinely uses the word WASPy to dispatch an older way of being that of course has a religious/ethnic basis. This is…
The difference between the NY Review of Books and the London Review of Books is that the NYRB contains currents of Jeffrey-Goldbergism–it is agonized about Israel and not entirely sure how to think about it, though it often runs excellent…
The Wall Street Journal has finally done it. Run a piece that somewhat explores the Jewishness of the Madoff scandal, by Ronald Cass, former dean of the Boston University School of Law. Steven Spielberg. Elie Wiesel. Mort Zuckerman. Frank Lautenberg….