Haaretz reports that half of Europeans believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country. Abe Foxman says this shows the rise of traditional anti-semitic stereotype, including the belief that Jews control U.S. foreign policy. Similar…
As the Times indicated the other day in its annual piece on mixed-religion couples, some people get agonized about intermarriage. I suppose I’ve been myself or why would I be so hung up on Jewish identity? My gentile wife is…
Here’s a shocker. On Saturday Adalah NY held another protest outside Leviev, the diamond store owned by a proponent of the settlements, and Alan Dershowitz stopped and challenged the protesters to come in, then emerged from the store brandishing his…
The Washington Post is a hotbed of secularism. In yesterday’s paper, Richard Cohen attacked Mike Huckabee for “his obdurate and narrow-minded religious beliefs”–his positions on abortion, stem cells, gun control. Today the Post editorial page justifiably lands on Mitt Romney…
My wife and I made some money off the sale of our house (I’m almost ashamed to admit, what with the sales crisis) and I was about to give a bunch to our investment guy when my wife invoked Sharia,…
A couple weeks back, I criticized Americans for Peace Now for remaining on the executive board of AIPAC; and Dan Fleshler responded to me on his blog, in a post called “Are Pro-Israel doves part of the ‘lobby’?” Weiss does…
This Thanksgiving my wife and I went to her cousin’s place in suburban Philadelphia, not all that far from my parents’ house, and since my wife’s sister and her family from Connecticut were also coming, we made a plan for…
I’m the general contractor and main laborer on renovations of my new house, and the job has brought me into contact with working-class Americans. I enjoy this, and experience it as a privilege: it’s part of the economy that my…
My wife and I are moving, and the buyer came to our old house three days before closing as we were clearing out. A little pushy; but it was O.K. She wanted her architect to look at the place, that…