Tonight at 7 pm, at Politics and Prose in Dupont Circle, Katharine Weber will read from her novel Triangle, about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. She read last week on the Upper West side in New York, and filed this report:…
In a recent column, neocon Daniel Pipes openly questions the loyalties of British Muslims. Polling indicates that a majority of Muslims perceive a conflict between their British and Muslim identities. Two polls show that only a small proportion identifies itself…
In yesterday’s New Haven Register, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a leading management professor at Yale, shows how disaffection with Lieberman isn’t some narrow obsession, as David Brooks would have it, but goes to the heart of the misconduct of our foreign policy:…
Reporting on Lamont-Lieberman, the JTA gets at the crucial question of Jewish money in the race: “Jewish fund-raisers canvassed by JTA said they favored Lieberman — even those who profoundly disagree with him on Iraq.” Amazingly, even Steve Grossman, a…
From The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick (1999): “In the Jewish tradition, some memories are very long lasting… Some memories, once functional, become dysfunctional. The concluding chapters of the Book of Esther tell of the queen’s soliciting permission…
The Forward has some good reporting on the antiwar insurgent’s position re vis-a-vis Lebanon. And Jonathan Tasini’s, too, the man challenging Hillary Clinton.
Commenter Rowan Berkeley has accused me of “Jewish Orientalism.” It’s not the first time; my friend Dan Swanson (author James North) has accused me of orientalism on a number of occasions. What do I cop to: I think there’s a…
George Ajjan has an amusing item on Why Iran’s President Ahmadinejad never wears a tie. Ajjan heard this from an unnamed Iranian friend: Shortly after the revolution…the tie itself began being associated with “Western imperialism”, especially after Ayatollah Khomeini branded…
Two newly-published reports suggest that the first President Bush, George H.W. Bush, lost his bid for a second term in the 1992 general election because of the Israel lobby. First there’s yesterday’s Washington Post Magazine piece on the lobby. It…