I wish this stuff would show up in the American Jewish press! Give us ten years, huh? Amaya Galili has a piece in Hebrew on the spiritual urgency of commemorating the Nakba, on Yedioth Aharonoth. Charles Kamen has made a…
Last year my friend Mark and I unmasked the Asia Times columnist “Spengler” as a NY currencies expert named David P. Goldman. A LaRouchie-cum-neocon, Goldman used various masks to write about religious issues. We unmasked him for a simple reason:…
Missed this. Here is a moving piece from January by Julia Good Fox in a leading Native American publication called Indian Country Today, informing indigenous people here about the Nakba of the Palestinians and relating the “apartheid” conditions of the…
Parallel universe. The Zionist Organization of America is threatening to boycott Coca-Cola because it bought land in Egypt for a bottling plant that was once owned by a Jewish family, the Bigios, and that was stolen from them in 1964…
The other day someone asked me what I love about Israel, and I realized later I should always begin with Uri Avnery. Now in his 80s, he is a great wise man, who gave up ambition for truth a long…
My friend Mark expands on his religious thoughts of earlier today: Paul wasn’t a relativist. As he makes clear in Romans, even though he doesn’t have all the modern scholarship on man’s approach to reality (function of myth, etc.) he’s…
Jim Harb writes: Phil, the United Nations did not create Israel. I’ve noticed that you mention this from time to time, but it’s simply, historically, and factually inaccurate. This is not only a misstatement of historical fact, it is an…
I need to document something important that happened in 2009 in American Jewish intellectual life that someday people will look back on in horror. Twice in the last month I have had conversations with Jewish intellectuals who must go nameless…
Rabbi Michael Lerner, at Huffpo, on how Passover became problematic this year: As several congregants put it to me, “We Jews have become Pharaoh to the Palestinian people — so we would be hypocrites to sit around our Passover table…