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Spanish Supreme Court Rejects Shehadeh War Crimes Jurisdiction
April 16, 2010The Israeli army has won a victory on behalf of impunity in its war against the Palestinian people with this week’s announcement that the Spanish High Court has rejected jurisdiction over the case of the assassination of Palestinian militant Salah Shehadeh and 18 civilians by the IDF in 2002. After an appeal by Israeli human [...]
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Mark Owens and Paramilitary Conservation
April 12, 2010Over at The Vigorous North, an interesting point about the psychological need of white people to believe that developing world wilderness areas are, in fact, wilderness, and not at all populated by humans who have their own relationships to the land. People tell me that this is a sub-theme of my recent New Yorker piece [...]
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Lest We Forget
April 12, 2010These are words that we hear at least once a year. For those of us who grew up in Jewish day school or in Sunday school, we heard this motto more often. “Lest we forget.” Lest we forget what? That our people were butchered? That we were led like sheep to the slaughter? That the [...]
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Enemies of the State
March 26, 2010Since they have now succeeded in turning America into a beggar state via Obamacare, Democrats have settled on a particularly pernicious strategy. They know that their health care “reform” is hated by most of the American people. They also know that the people will likely fire many of them in November. So, they have decided [...]
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Obama: PLO Agent in White House
March 23, 2010This striking image accompanied the NY Times article about Bibi Netanyahu’s stem-winding speech at the Aipac conference in which he made some typically bellicose claims. Among them: ‘
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Upside Down Judaism
March 16, 2010My latest piece Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud? was just posted over on Religion Dispatches. It used to be commonly held that Orthodox Jews were more interested in ritual observances’
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Rewriting History… Again
March 8, 2010The Turks are good at it; just take a look at Turkish history. The Sun language theory: all languages are descendant from an ancient Turkic language. The Turkish history thesis: all people are descendant from ancient Turkic people. Also included is that the Ottomans weren’t Turks, and that the Young Turks overthrew the evil non-Turkish Ottoman Empire. [...]
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A New Series on Possibility of Jewish Art
March 7, 2010I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the possibility of a Jewish Art. It seems that there is no stable Jewishness these days. Orthodoxy flirts with the possibility of ordaining women, but falls back in the clutch of Edom. I see people in my own congregation who daven like frumer yidn in shul, but chomp [...]
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Israel’s Independence, Rhode Island Style
March 2, 2010This weekend, while visiting a friend in D.C., I ventured for the first time to the Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot colossus that offers a window into hundreds of years of news headlines, news history and of course, the people behind the news. For a journalist, visiting this place is like unleashing a wide-eyed child in Disney [...]
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IN THOSE DAYS – AT THIS TIME
February 28, 2010Purim – 2010 Starring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Today, there’s another Persian ruler, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a similar plan in mind – to wipe the State of Israel and its people off the world’s map. Like Haman, Ahmadinejad speaks openly of his distain for this peculiar people.Anti-Semitic rhetoric and attacks on Jewish people [...]
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Would Mossad Agents Really Flee to Iran?
February 25, 2010Eli Lake, in a very interesting piece, poses some good questions: …Some details have emerged that do not track with traditional Israeli intelligence tradecraft. The Dubai authorities this week said two of the operatives fled to Iran. Michael Ross, a retired officer for the Mossad’s covert-operations division, said it would be a breach of Israeli [...]
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What Was That Again, Mr. President?
February 19, 2010Yesterday, the president touted the now-$862 billion economic “stimulus” on its one-year anniversary. He sung its praises to high heaven: “We have rescued this economy from the worst of this crisis. The American people are rebuilding a better future.” With no help from him or his ludicrous, counterproductive “stimulus.” Today we get word of two [...]
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Tetchiness: An Explanation
February 11, 2010A Goldblog reader asked me to post this, as a message to Andrew Sullivan. I think it’s pretty astute:Contemporary Germany is sometimes criticized.
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Women discuss 'kosher' use of social media
February 8, 2010