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…
Everyone who reads this blog knows what a blurb is, right? It’s an endorsement on the back jacket of a book. J.J. Goldberg, editorial director of the Forward, and a kind and thoughtful guy, blurbs Avraham Burg’s important new book,…
This blog comes out of alienation from my own tribe. I was staggered in midlife to find that the people I’d grown up believing were the best/enlightened were as power-hungry and materialistic as anyone else in the U.S. and indifferent…
in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish…
Huffington Post gives a platform to Beth Dozoretz, a member of the AIPAC executive committee who has Israeli gov’t connections and helped deliver the Marc Rich pardon back when, to say the country needs Larry Summers as Obama’s next Treasury…