Yesterday CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) held a conference on fighting “Jewish defamers of Israel.” A couple hundred people in the basement of the Park Avenue Synagogue– that beacon to assimilationist German Jews. I…
On his book tour, Alan Greenspan has been talking about the dangers of capitalism. Sounding the socialist, he sees a moral problem with the rising gap between rich and poor. The unprivileged will begin to question the rightness of capitalism…
Iranian-American realist scholar Trita Parsi, a protege of Fukuyama, has been making the rounds of the left to talk about his new book Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S. The book is extremely powerful. After…
An amazing new study by two Jewish scholars underwritten by the Bronfman foundation echoes just what I’ve been saying in this space about Jewish identity and Israel. Titled “Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation From Israel,” the…
This Sunday, CAMERA, the Committe for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, is holding a conference about Jewish defamers of Israel. Their word, defame. Cynthia Ozick will be there, so will Alvin Rosenfeld, who wrote the paper for the…
I went to a party last night in the city and met an Israeli. Handsome, tall, a chest as broad as a desk. We talked about movement between the U.S. and Israel, and I asked him about the Israeli reputation…
Congratulations are due to John Podhoretz, chosen to become the next editor of Commentary in 14 months. Nonetheless, the appointment is shocking. Podhoretz is famous on the internet as a gadfly and horse’s ass; once he sent me a note,…
For a guy who writes about the Israel lobby all the time, you’d think I would have related all I personally know about the lobby by now. Not true. I’ve never told this story. I live in New York’s 19th…