Last night, a religious friend told me about an interesting exchange between Bill Moyers and the female Episcopal bishop, in which the bishop justified discriminating against gays as bishops by saying they would be “crucified.” Here’s the exchange: BISHOP KATHARINE…
On Thursday night at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th Street in New York, a number of Jews including myself will be on a panel about “How Do We Talk About Israel?” The discussion is about: how to…
Recently I argued that anti-Zionism might just be the new Zionism for Jewish youth, because it appeals to the same idealistic/prophetic chord in Jewish history that Zionism formerly appealed to. I find some support for my view in an unlikely…
This morning I woke up with a fresh understanding of the dual-loyalty issues I have been chewing away at in this blog. It is actually staggering when you think about it, that a leading professor of political philosophy–Michael Walzer–can speak…
DePaul’s lamentable decision underscores the fact: There is no room in our discourse for sharp criticism of Israel. As a commenter notes below, Grad students take notice..
A couple weeks ago I watched an Asian-American panel on C-Span talking about responses in their community to the Virginia Tech shootings. The main feeling was, shame; they worried that non-Asian Americans would blame the Asian community for the murders….
APN and AAI set up a conference call today to announce their poll results (below) and when I asked AAI’s Jim Zogby why more Arab-Americans (6%) would have the U.S. lean towards Israel in its Mideast policy than lean towards…
A new poll of Arab-American and American Jewish attitudes on Israel/Palestine shows remarkable agreement. “Seeing eye to eye,” claim the poll’s sponsors, the Arab American Institute and Americans for Peace Now. To wit: –98 percent of Jews says Israelis have…
A couple weeks back, I mentioned Noam Chomsky’s assertion that the smear of Jews who criticize Israel as being “self hating” originated in 1973 in comments by Abba Eban in an American Jewish Congress publication. I looked up that old…