Last night I went to the New York Public Library for a conversation between Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset whose new and often-stirring book is The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From Its Ashes, and…
Apparently I made a mistake in my last post. A friend says that David Koch, whom I consecrate as one of my people, is not Jewish. Apologies to all, not least my hoodwinked readers. Charles Keating sent me this post…
Obama’s still opaque to me. I have no idea of his motivation. Scares me that he has hired so many Harvard Law School grads you can’t even count em. Bill Clinton was into Rhodes Scholars, another meritocratic blue ribbon. Mike…
Sunday’s communal Jewish progressive conference will feature Meretz/USA’s Lilly Rivlin in a panel on the effect of the Iraq war on the Middle East. Dan Sisken of Mideast Brief goes after Meretz USA to me today: What is interesting is…
Thank heavens for the LA Times Op-Ed page. Finally Avraham Burg’s book on the urgency of ending the Holocaust mindset is getting coverage in the U.S press. I don’t think there have been major reviews yet. But the LAT runs…
is to send those beautiful girls to public school. People are rumoring Lafayette. Can you imagine the effect on Washington culture? Yes, you can.
I’ve gotten many friends thru this blog. One of them is a quiet person, as an emailer anyway, named Anne Silver. She lives in the Bay Area and always apologizes for taking my time. She is obviously kind. Her name…
The Daily News is reporting on Emanuel’s father’s racist comments re Arabs. They called the congressman’s office. No response yet. But who else in the press is touching this ugly declaration that involves the next White House chief of staff?…
A few years back I had an argument with one of my journalistic mentors, who is Jewish (almost all of ’em were). I was naming Jewish names in power and he bridled. “But are they Jews qua Jews?” Why call…