I wrestle constantly with how to respond to the various haters who post comments here. The majority...
Mideast Peace
This is the third and perhaps final post about the musical heritages of those lands worst hit...
Muthuswami Dikshitar, Thyagaraja and Syama Sastri—the trinity of Carnatic music (credit: Artindia.net) When the tsunami hit, I...
Armandino Batali, proprietor of Salumi (credit: Barry Wong/ Seattle Times) I’m delighted that Greg Atkinson, the Seattle...
A truly mind-boggling thing has just happened within Palestinian society. Hamas has unequivocally accepted that Israel has...
If I were Condi Rice right about now, I’d start wondering who was making U.S. foreign policy–her...
Well, not really–it actually lasted almost four days from just after Abu Mazen won the Palestinian presidential...
Leon Wieseltier has been the New Republic’s literary editor for over two decades. Frankly, I’ve always felt...
Diane Mason in Lawrence of Cyberia has written a masterful, distressingly bleak appraisal, in light of the...
Jewish Press Airs Right-Wing Attack on New Israel Fund/Ford Foundation Human Rights Grants in Israel
Jewish Press Airs Right-Wing Attack on New Israel Fund/Ford Foundation Human Rights Grants in Israel
Those of us progressives who blog about the Middle East and identify with our Jewish communities have...
Aaron David Miller, president of Seeds of Peace since January 2003, spoke to the Seattle Brit Tzedek...
The leadership of the American Jewish community contains some exemplary individuals who represent the highest standards of...
