Grassyards and Anti-Grassyards: Notes on The Gunter Grass Affair
In the warwaging over Gunter Grass—the Nobel Prize winning German author, teenage Nazi soldier, and author of a poem denouncing Israel’s threats on Iran—it’s hard to tell whose national psyche is more...
View ArticleWelcome Back, Julian! WikiLeaks' Founder Is Back--and Interviews Hezbollah's...
Remember Julian Assange, the guy behind WikiLeaks? Well, he’s back. Despite facing rape charges in his native country of Sweden, he’s started a new internet T.V. show, which Russia Today is hosting...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Alan Z. Feuer: The Jew Nobody Knew
Over the weekend, you may have caught the engrossing New York Times profile of a New York society don—one Alan Z. Feuer—who had a mysterious past. I didn’t bother reading it when I first picked up my...
View ArticleThe Death of the Father: How Did Benzion Netanyahu Influence His Son?
How will the death of Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israel’s prime minister who died in Jerusalem on Monday, at 102, affect his powerful son? I don’t have a clue, though some, like Jeffrey...
View ArticleOn Maurcie Sendak, Adam Yauch, and the Death of Jewish Brooklyn Bohemia
If the death this weekend of Adam Yauch, 47—the Beastie Boys founder, nicknamed MCA—was not enough, today came another blow: the death of Maurice Sendak, at 83. Both were Jewish artists, pioneers in...
View ArticleNo, the Jews Don't Own Anxiety -- What The New York Times Essay Got Right
In this Sunday’s New York Times, you may have seen the Week in Review front-cover essay by Daniel Smith. With the header, “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” it was low-hanging fruit for the paper’s editors to...
View ArticleThe Crisis of Peter Beinart: On New York Magazine's New Profile
What Peter Beinart doesn’t lack is attention—what he lacks is friends. That’s the conclusion you can draw from New York magazine’s lengthy profile of Beinart, the fiery liberal Jewish journalist who...
View ArticleSo Much For Remembering: On Israel Forgetting Its History, and Expelling...
So much for remembering our history; farewell to compassion. Those were my thoughts after reading the news this week that Israel officially began its plan to expel thousands of African immigrants, many...
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