Friday, April 28, 2017

The yarmulke adds a nice touch, no?


America Israel Public Affairs Committee in the Trump Era/J Street Era

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Antisemitism, Trump and the Blame Game


We now know that an Israeli-American teenager made the bomb threats against US Jewish community centers. 

It struck me that the American Jewish community’s intramural bickering over anti-Semitism deserved a deeper look. 

I was curious why liberals needed to point to one kind of antisemitism while conservatives felt compelled to point in a different direction. 

Why —besides ideological rigidity — not go beyond the either/or?

And why is April 19th a day to be extra cautious...


All this led to the tour d'horizon below.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Hillel & the Struggle for Jewish Continuity




https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwZ8wRaHufjfbjFKM0NNeWpVTG8

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Taking Stock of Donald Trump



This is my "taking stock" of Trump piece that I wrote on the eve of his inauguration.