Bernard Madoff, the alleged fraudster and $50 billion Ponzi man, got tons of money from Jewish establishment figures. He was on the board of Yeshiva U. And one of his victims was a Jewish-oriented foundation, called the Lappin Foundation, which…
Here is an album of pictures from inside the “Peace House,” the Israeli settlement in Hebron that was evacuated by Israeli soldiers last week. Below on the left is Nadia Matar, the woman who has urged settlement supporters to give…
I’ve got a new friend named Yakov. He gave me a donation and said he wanted to rant about something. What Yakov says about antisemitism is smart and interesting: Back in the shtetl every Jew knew who the anti-Semites were,…
Three major U.S. power figures are linked to the charity run out of a 6th Avenue fabric store that is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to settler militias in the West Bank: James Tisch, the ceo of Loews, Michael…
The Central Fund for Israel–which lists its office at the same address as Marcus Fabrics on 6th Avenue in New York– is a 501(c)3. That means contributions are 50 percent tax deductible. The Central Fund gives a lot of its…
Arthur and Hadassah Marcus live on the Upper West side. They’re married. Must be pushing 60. I’m sure they’re nice people. Their son Jay lives in the Occupied Territories. Arthur says he and his son work for Marcus Fabrics on…
One of the fervid Jewish settlers who was evicted from that disputed house in Hebron last week, Nadia Matar, has sent out a defiant email: “There is no doubt, the more violence they use against us, the more it proves…
A couple years ago Scott McConnell at the American Conservative told me how impressed he was by Chuck Hagel, that he mixed fine insight with a flat manner. More recently, David Bromwich told me of how he had sat up…
A few weeks back I ran a friend’s review of “Religulous” that pointed out Bill Maher’s double-standard for Christian evangelicals and Jews. A man who just saw the film–“Rand Meko”–found that review online, and sent me the following note: I…