I’m not the best source on Jewish liturgy but I remember that at Yom Kippur they open the doors of the ark, the cabinet of the law, and later warn you that the doors are closing. The days of atonement…
Jeffrey Goldberg, surely the most powerful Jewish print journalist in the country right now, wrote a vicious review in The New Republic last fall of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book, The Israel Lobby that I never blogged about because I found…
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League complains bitterly in the Jerusalem Post that Israel’s 60th birthday prompted absolutely equal coverage in U.S. newspapers of the Nakba, featuring “Palestinian[s]-of-the-day.” Gosh, I wish I’d seen all those stories! The Nakba narrative, says…
Haaretz reports that the UN Sec’y-General used the word “Nakba” yesterday, angering Israel. The [UN’s official] report said the UN chief telephoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to express his solidarity with the Palestinians on the day they mark the “nakba,”…
I’m still mulling Marty Peretz’s longish phone conversation with Obama about Israel, also Jeffrey Goldberg’s longish interview with the candidate. One of the weird things about both conversations is the sense that Goldberg and Peretz are extracting a promise from…
The Etzel Museum, commemorating the Irgun, is itself housed in a former Palestinian home in Jaffa. And check this out: several demonstrations by No Time to Celebrate Jews, including 10 openly-identified “anti-Zionist” Jews outside a “birthright” event in New York….
Against Commentary Magazine, a reader has offered me this Jaffa blogger. Her name’s Yudit, an artist. I want to believe she’s Jewish. Oh my god, there are some beautiful Jews in the world! She says Jaffa, once “bride of the…
Last week I blogged about Commentary’s piece denying the Nakba, which was underwritten by the chairman of the New-York Historical Society– a landmark of Nakba denial, published in what was once a glory of Jewish intellectual tradition: Commentary, the magazine…
The world keeps changing. The Globe has a shocking story on Brandeis’s student senate tabling/killing a resolution to congratulate Israel on making 60. The resolution sparked more than two hours of debate on the senate floor on March 9, leaving…