During this holiday season, please donate (via Paypal) to Tikun Olam via my fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media. I can’t recall any story I’ve ever written here over many years that threatened tremendous controversy and outrage, but which ended in a wonderful resolution. Tonight, you’ll read such a story. View this post on […]
Ben & Jerry’s: (Ice Cream) Wars of the Jews
DONATE: I’ve created a Facebook fundraiser for Tikun Olam and my fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media. Proceeds support my independent research and journalism and the struggle against apartheid and racism in Israel. Please donate here. * * The ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote his famous account of the Judean wars against Rome called […]
American Jews’ Love-Hate Relationship With Black Lives Matter
The historically ambivalent relationship between American Jews and the Black community continues with the ascendancy of Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement over the past five years. As long as BLM “stays in its lane” and restricts itself to domestic civil rights issues, Jewish groups are happy to go along. 600 such organizations even signed a […]
Trump Begins Iranian ‘Internment’
We aren’t quite at the stage of internment…yet. But we’re headed there. I mean for you to think of the Japanese internment of 120,000 U.S. citizens and legal residents in remote internment camps in the far West. It was the worst anti-constitutional blemish on the U.S. in the 20th century. We must never go back, […]