My son loves piggyback rides. I usually oblige him. On this recent evening, I was neighing like...
Mideast Peace
For two years or more, I’ve nursed the idea that what the web needed was a place...
Apparently, a terrible contagion of anti-Semitism (or is it anti-Zionism? aw, I guess they’re one and the...
Inside Higher Ed reports (much of this post derives from that site) that right-wing Jewish alumni are...
Keith Weissmanfired by AIPAC(credit: Haaretz) The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports the electrifying news that AIPAC has fired...
English ‘Roseum’ rhododendron These are times when it seems the world’s gone to Hell. Let’s leave aside...
The New York Times has published a moving story, The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word,...
Sharon’s body language: "Can’t waitto get away from this guy" (credit:J. Scott Applewhite/AP) The retro Sharon we...
The Israeli hard Right, desperate to regain ground it’s lost in its failed bid to galvanize Israel...
Regular readers of this blog will know that my parents abused me (physically and emotionally) as a...
The news from the Mideast keeps getting better. The Financial Times reported on April 7th in Hezbollah...
…in which we survive a 12-hour plane trip with 3 children [including four month old twins] from...
