Tony Judt uses Israel Independence Day as a foil for an interesting rhetorical conceit: like any person...
In Haaretz, Yossi Sarid takes the opportunity offered by Israel’s Yom Hazikaron (“Day of Remembrance”) and the...
Philip Weiss has written a terrific article in The Nation (and republished at CBSNews.com ), Ferment Over...
Until yesterday, I knew nothing about the year’s most devastating and entertaining evisceration of the Bush Administration....
George Bush: “Is this me?” (photo: Roger L. Wollenberg) George Bush is having more than a political...
One of Haaretz’s veteran correspondents, Gideon Levy, writes yet another scathing denunciation of Shaul Mofaz‘s tenure as...
I’ve never seen the Kronos Quartet in concert before and decided to see them tonight at Seattle’s...
It appears that the U.S. is not the only country with a failed defense secretary/minister. Sol Salbe...
Just read about Neil Young’s Living With War (hear it) in the NY Times today. I’ve got...
This is a recent image of Miriam, my 18 month-old twin. I’m not gonna go all daddy...
Thomas R. Pickering, former number 3 in the State Department and U.S. ambassador to Israel (1985-1988) spoke...
Brad Burston has written yet another lucid, compelling and compassionate essay in Haaretz on the common threads...






