Daniel Treiman
By Daniel Treiman
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Life Thomas Friedman Suggests a Jordanian Option
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times writes: When I reported from Israel in the mid-1980s, the big debate here was whether Israel’s settlement-building in the West Bank had passed a point of no return — a point where any serious withdrawal became virtually impossible to imagine. The question was often framed as: “Is it…
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Life Hank Greenberg Would Be Proud of Brian Horwitz
Brian Horwitz is off to a pretty good start in the big leagues. Last night, in his third Major League game, the San Francisco Giants’ rookie outfielder knocked off a two-run home run in his team’s blowout of the Mets. After eight at-bats, Horwitz is batting .500 with three RBIs and three runs scored. “Unbelievable,”…
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Life Amos Oz on Rights, Duties, Miracles and the Settlement Movement
The latest issue of the always interesting Moment magazine has a great Q&A with Israeli literary and left-wing luminary Amos Oz. The whole thing is well worth reading, but his critique of the ethos of the West Bank settlement movement is particularly perceptive: So the settlers have a different vision of Zionism that includes the…
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Life The Jewish Press Leans (a Little Bit) Left for a Change
The Jewish Press, the nationally distributed, Brooklyn-based Orthodox weekly, can be counted on to lean pretty far to the right when it comes to both politics and religion. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised by a pair of remarkably progressive (by contemporary Orthodox standards) opinion articles on two hot-button religious controversies that were published last…
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Life In Other Jewish Newspapers: ‘Sex’ Jew Speaks, Kinky Knocks ‘Wimps,’ London’s Shtreimel Snatchers
KOSHER MEAT REVOLTS?: The New York Jewish Week attempts to gauge reaction among kosher consumers to the controversy surrounding America’s largest kosher meat plant in the wake of a massive federal immigration raid. Among both Conservative and Orthodox Jews, the paper finds an uneven response, with pockets of anger and calls for boycotts, juxtaposed with…
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Books Obama Digs Roth, But McCain Prefers Wouk
A few weeks ago, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg — who has lately established himself as a key contender for the title of Mr. Jewish Journalist — grilled Barack Obama about Israel and other topics of Jewish interest. Now, he covers some of the same ground with John McCain. Since Obama, in his interview, volunteered that…
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Life Why Did J Street Make a ‘Radical’ Revision to John Hagee’s Words? (UPDATED)
Note: J Street has responded with an apology and explanation. See the updates to this post below. It’s not hard to find examples of inflammatory rhetoric from Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. All you have to do is listen to his sermons, read his books or, for the more lazy among us, do…
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Life Walt and Mearsheimer Take ‘The Israel Lobby’ to Israel
It seems that two of the pro-Israel community’s least-favorite political scientists, “Israel Lobby” authors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, are giving a talk next month in a somewhat surprising locale — the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. How nice. Maybe Walt and Mearsheimer will learn something.
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