I didn’t think the crying was faked. If it was, she wouldn’t have stumbled and made that strange comment: “You know, I have so many opportunities from this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards.” It was…
In the Chicago Tribune, a Brit Tzedek rabbi, Arnold Jacob Wolf, says that the American Jewish community’s failure to speak up for the peace process now is “shocking.” Wolf says that yes, American Jews have been skeptical of the peace…
When Walt and Mearsheimer’s paper appeared in LRB eons ago, one of the controversies surrounded their statement that citizenship in Israel is based on “blood kinship.” Alan Dershowitz said they were reviving the blood libel. Benny Morris said that it…
In 1957 Elia Kazan made a movie called “A Face in the Crowd,” about the emerging power of television & celebrity, in which an Arkansas hobo and guitar picker who has tremendous likeability is discovered in a jail cell–and played…
Looks like Hillary’s near-tearful moment over the terrible tragedy for the American polity that awaits us if the good forces she represents don’t win–which is what she was saying, if not actually feeling, when she fell apart–will hurt her and…
Every week or so in Haaretz, Shmuel Rosner rates American presidential candidates on Who is best for Israel? Giuliani is usually first, what with all the neocons in his braintrust, and Hillary is not that far behind. Ron Paul is…
I gather that the flood is already beginning, from Hillary’s side to Obama’s in New Hampshire. Something ought to be said about the fickleness of the babyboomers. We’re vain and we don’t really have a lot to show for ourselves,…
I’m still washing in the waves of Obama’s great speech last Thursday night. The most fascinating thing to me is that he did not speak of his blackness, at least as I recall the speech. He began by saying, “They…