Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

In the past two days, a great tyrant and a great bully have died. It’s certainly not considered polite to dance on people’s graves. But let’s just say I’m not unhappy about either one.
Jeane Kirkpatrick hectors the world (Joel Landau/AP)
Jeane Kirkpatrick was the bully. And though she never attained the power of [...]

Juan Cole to Jewish neocons: ‘J’Accuse!’ (photo: Harvard University Gazette)
M.J. Rosenberg just gave me a head’s up about Yale’s withdrawal of a faculty appointment to Juan Cole after a concerted campaign against him from Yale Jewish donors and other Jewish neocons. Both Jewish Week and The Nation report that Cole had been approved by [...]