Angry Arab makes fun of western reporters who say that throwing shoes at someone is a sign of disrespect in Arab culture, as if it isn’t here, too. Gabriel at JSF makes fun of what he says will be a…
This is the season of media Christmas parties. I’m still connected enough that I get invited to a few, in Gotham, and I wanted to convey the following urgent information before passing into the arms of Morpheus. The old media…
I dislike George Bush as much as the next guy but this editorial in yesterday’s Times, called the Deluder in chief, that attacks George Bush over the war in Iraq is so much comfort food for privileged blue staters. The…
Yesterday I said that the Burg event at the New York Public Library Monday night was special for a statement that Avraham Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, now an author, made about the relationship of American Jewry to…
Does it surprise you that liberal internationalists wish to provide neocons political cover unto the last day? Not really. George Packer wants David Frum to replace Bill Kristol as a columnist at the Times. Frum is a smart guy and…
The lasting image I’ll have of yesterday’s conference on Jews against the war 6 years after the fact will be of Rabbi David Saperstein of the Union for Reform Judaism going on at length and almost angrily, citing Hebrew words…
I can’t be alone in saying that the Brad Sherman moment with the auto executives the other day, in which he asked who had flown commercial to D.C. and then who was prepared to sell his plane and fly back…
On Sunday there’s a conference of Jews in New York seeking to recover the progressive anti-war tradition in Jewish life. I’m planning to attend. Rabbis Ellen Lippmann and Arthur Waskow. J.J. Goldberg, Amy Goodman. Register here. Oh, also: Michael Ratner…
On reflection, I find it lamentable that the LA Times piece by Avraham Burg, which I welcomed last night, and still do, is the Exalted Burg way up there circling on his thermals. It is all about the Shoah in…