A smart piece of reporting in the Times by Samuel G. Freedman on the ways in which the New York Modern Orthodox community was the epicenter of the Madoff catastrophe. And pointing out that no Reform or Conservative institution was…
This morning’s Times has the news of the strikes on Gaza killing over a hundred, and on the same front page there is this review of Ari Folman’s movie, Waltz With Bashir, “Inside a Veteran’s Nightmare,” that raves about this…
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…