The rabbi who interviewed Helen Thomas…
…explains what led up to it, and what it’s like living in a post-“oooh” world.
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Genetic studies indicate what Jews already knew…
…which is that Jews are more closely related to other Middle Eastern peoples than they are to the natives of the countries they encountered in their millenia of wanderings, and that they are also very closely related to each other: … Continue reading →
A mind may be a difficult thing to change…
…but Obama’s performance as president seems to be encouraging the ranks of the Republican Jewish Coalition to swell, making the term “Jewish Republican” seem a bit less of an oxymoron.
Continue reading →Helen Thomas and the Polish homeland of the Jews
Perhaps you’ve already seen the video of Helen Thomas giving the Jews of Israel some decidedly unfriendly advice about just where they should go: And you’ve probably seen the calls for Hearst to fire Helen Thomas and encourage her none-too-early … Continue reading →
Obama, Daniel Pearl, and freedom of the press
It seems like a long, long, time ago that Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, held hostage, and then beheaded by jihadists in early 2002. At the time, it was a profoundly shocking event, and part of the horror was the fact … Continue reading →
Obama administration to Jews: pay no attention…
…to the fact that we appear to be betraying you. I wonder if the reassurance will work.
Continue reading →Why all those SCOTUS Catholics and Jews?
Orin Kerr notes at Volokh.com that Kagan’s likely confirmation will mean that the Supreme Court will be entirely composed of Catholics and Jews, with no Protestant representation at all. Kerr has no overarching theory about this, except for the obvious … Continue reading →
Let’s see: an Obama national security adviser and a Jew walk into a bar…
When is an ethnic joke not funny? Just for starters, when when it’s told by someone not a member of that group. You be the judge: As for the question that immediately sprang to my mind—“are there Jews in Afghanistan?”—the … Continue reading →
Jewish voters and Obama
Nobody’s suing for divorce yet. But the honeymoon between Jewish voters and Obama may be over, or at least that first high flush of romance is gone. This survey indicates that 42% of Jewish voters would vote for Obama again … Continue reading →
Jimmy Carter on how not to apologize
It’s being widely described as an aplogy to Israel, and I suppose technically it’s true that Jimmy Carter has offered something of the sort, whether to enhance his grandson’s Atlanta election bid, or as a reflection of that old-fashioned Christmas … Continue reading →
Anne Frank: are people good at heart?
I’m currently reading Francine Prose’s Anne Frank: the book, the life, the afterlife. It’s about the process by which Anne Frank wrote and then rewrote her diary, with an eye to its ultimate publication, and how her father edited her … Continue reading →
Demise of the deli
I’ve often observed that there’s no deli like a New York deli. Now, you may think you’ve found some exceptions to that rule. And perhaps you have; I haven’t sampled all the delis in the world. But outside of New … Continue reading →