My friend and once-in-a-while journalistic collaborator, Larry Cohler-Esses, has just accepted the number 2 job of assistant...
Jews & Judaism
One of my readers, Jeff Wollock, noted in a brief comment that the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance...
Rabbi Marvin Hier, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, never seems to miss...
Consider this headline: “Prague Museum to Desecrate Ancient Jewish Quarter Cemetery.” The headline isn’t true, but it...
How do you spell c-h-u-t-z-p-a-h? “Chutzpah” simply doesn’t begin to do justice to the Clarion Fund’s latest...
One of the few silver linings of the current Wall Street financial debacle: thanks to reader John...
Despite the braying ads of the Republican Jewish Coalition and their conviction that 2008 was finally going...
To those of you not attuned to the nuances of Jewish history, my headline may not mean...
Thanks to research provided by reader RM for this post. Sarah Posner’s article in Jewish Week goes...
Thanks once again to my anonymous researcher who dug up this gold nugget. I’ve been trying to...
Hold onto your hats folks but I’m going to say something nice about Jeffrey Goldberg. He’s the...
David Shasha is a major progressive intellectual leader of the American Sephardic community. He writes an erudite...




