Oren: Obama did not ‘snub’ Netanyahu
Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, told top Democrats he hosted for dinner this week that President Obama never "snubbed" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their March 23 meeting.
View ArticleDon’t mention the war
There’s a reason to keep Nazis out of the rhetoric, however heated.
View ArticleNBC: It’s Kagan
NBC is reporting that President Obama has selected his solicitor general, Elena Kagan, for the Supremes vacancy.
View ArticleKoch, Goldstone and MJ keeps me busy
Via MJ Rosenberg (at Media Matters), I find out about Ed Koch’s proposal (at Huffington Post) on Jerusalem—share it.
View ArticleHow did they bring up the kids?
Once again, the Times misses the obvious question. From Olivia Judson’s contemplation of Neanderthal-Homo sapien mating:
View ArticleBerman’s complaint—which Dems are antsy about Obama?
We just posted the following brief about a letter that Howard Berman, perhaps the most powerful Jewish congressman, sent to all of his colleagues:
View ArticleElena Kagan: A wise bat mitzvah girl
The story of how a future Supreme Court nominee broke new ground at an Orthodox synagogue.
View ArticleAre we raising scaredy-cats?
At TPM Cafe, MJ Rosenberg raises an interesting question—are American Jews raising their kids to duck a fight instead of taking it on?
View ArticleThe OU rakes Barak over the coals—but about what?
Was the Orthodox Union fair in blasting Ehud Barak’s blast against ministers who blast the United States and the Palestinians?
View ArticleSarid: A pox on both your Goldstones
Ever since Yediot Achronot rehashed Richard Goldstone’s career as an Apartheid judge—28 blacks, at least, to the gallows, and four youths to the lash—the debate has split into two points of view.
View ArticleObama’s meeting with the congressional tribe
We just posted this brief on the meeting at the White House tonight between President Obama and the congressional Jewish caucus:
View ArticleEngel on the Obama meeting
It was hard last night to get first hand accounts of yesterday’s meeting, described below, between President Obama, a few of his aides, and 37 Jewish Congress members.
View ArticleAll hail Goldie/Genya, punk survivor
The Runaways biopic has opened. Parade Magazine’s Personality Parade reports that contrary to popular perception, this was not the first all-girl band (as opposed to singing group.).
View ArticleResponding to Beinart
Peter Beinart has the blogosphere and Jewish communal figures spinning with his new essay suggesting that Jewish groups and Israeli policies are to blame for what he describes as the increased...
View ArticleThink Progress powns the RNC’s Steele
I don’t usually resort to such schoolyard terminology (is it powns? pawns? Anyhow.)
View ArticleU.S. Jews and South Africa
It’s not a pretty story, according to Glenn Frankel’s review of Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, appearing in Foreign...
View ArticleThink Progress powns the RNC’s Steele
I don’t usually resort to such schoolyard terminology (is it powns? pawns? Anyhow.)
View ArticleResponding to Beinart II
The Forward’s Jane Eisner, The New York Jewish Week, the Orthodox Union and James Kirchik weigh in on Peter Beinart’s essay on Israel, Jewish groups and American Jewish attitudes toward Israel.
View ArticleNIF v. NGO Monitor
NGO Monitor has been plugging away at the New Israel Fund and the groups it supports for years, with successes at times. (Recently, for instance, it played a role in exposing a staffer at NIF-funded...
View ArticleResponding to Beinart II
The Forward’s Jane Eisner, The New York Jewish Week, the Orthodox Union and James Kirchik weigh in on Peter Beinart’s essay on Israel, Jewish groups and American Jewish attitudes toward Israel.
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