Elie Wiesel is dead. He leaves a decidedly mixed legacy. He was initially a sainted Holocaust survivor, international moral witness to depravity, captivating storyteller; later he morphed into a Palestine denier, settler advocate, Iranophobe and right-wing apologist for Israel. When I was 12 or 13, my congregation Rabbi Henry Sosland, would drive me to hear […]
2 Dead in Suspected Islamist Terror Attack in Denmark
UPDATE: Danish media are reporting that the man killed in the synagogue attack was a young Jew protecting the community center. Danish police appear to have killed the alleged gunman at the railroad station. At the risk of stating the obvious, the Islamist terrorist who appears to have attacked a Danish cafe and the Great […]
Genesis Prize: Flattering Oligarchs and Laundering Their Ill-Gotten Gains
A group of Russian oligarchs has pumped buckets of their ill-gotten cash into creating an award, the Genesis Prize, that flatters their egos and those of their fellow fat cats who will receive it. First up is Michael Bloomberg, fellow billionaire founder of Bloomberg Media and former New York mayor. In bestowing the award on […]
Jewish Neocons Adopt Rwandan Dictator, Kagame
UPDATE: A survivor of Rwandan genocide writes a scathing critique of this event and Jews lending support to Paul Kagame. Reading the NY Times, I was shocked to find a full-page ad entitled Genocide: Do the Strong Have an Obligation to Protect the Weak? It was an ad for a event in New York devoted […]
