The Law of Return’s loaded. The West Bank is full of guys from Brooklyn, or Minnesota, who need to live out their ethnocentric or racialist ideas on a biblical canvas. And the zeal of the converted tilts the entire state….
Yesterday I saw Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the trader who built Bear Stearns, on Charlie Rose. Greenberg is 81 and a tough guy, he has the square head and unblinking eyes of a warrior in a Kurosawa movie. (And of course…
On Saturday night I had a new friend to dinner, a Russian Jew who lives in the city who I met a few months ago thru this blog. He grew up in Siberia, spent a year or two in St….
Former Air Force captain John Mearsheimer is tough. The co-author of The Israel Lobby could give a s–t that he gets disinvited from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and gets disbarred from his former haunt, the New York Times,…
Last night’s baseball celebration by the amazing Tampa Bay [Devil] Rays provided a moment of recognition for American Jews as powerful as the Sandy Koufax moments of 40 years ago. At midnight, on the podium accepting the American League championship…
I can’t really complain about working for nothing when my farflung fossickers are doing all my work for me, can I? The latest feed from Jeff Blankfort, in California. The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American…
I first heard about “Anna in the Middle East” in July from my friend Andrea Whitmore, a Christian activist in Kansas City. “You have to meet Anna, she’s glorious and beautiful,” Whitmore said. I looked up her website: Anna Baltzer…
A few posts down from this is a post I did mocking the ADL for being so wigged out about anti-semitic theory proliferating in the wake of the market meltdown. The Jews got out with all their money, that kind…
The ADL has a grisly poster on its site, and scary scary lead: Conspiracy theories linking Jews and Israel to the global financial meltdown are taking on global reach as the financial crisis on Wall Street continues to affect markets…