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….
Eric Konigsberg has a piece on the front page of the Times today about Walter Noel, a big loser in the Madoff tank. Noel lives in Connecticut and is club friends with a John J. McCloy, whose name resonates, and…
NPR did an OK story on Madoff’s effect on Jewish charities yesterday, ably reported by the able Tovia Smith, but it included a line that irritated me no end. See if you can spot my button-pusher in this excerpt: Jeffrey…
Yesterday J Street made an important statement about people in the States who support extremist settlers in the West Bank, and it singled out the Hebron Fund. Well, another organization that does so is the charity that Adam Horowitz turned…
J Street has found its issue, and maybe its voice, too. It’s calling on the Jewish leadership to come out against the Hebron settlers’ “pogroms.” Specifically, J Street wonders why Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents has said nothing….
Madoff was treasurer of the American Jewish Congress. Amazingly: 2/3 of the organization’s endowment is said to be at risk. A deep shame. Clubbiness goeth before the fall.