Paul Scham
By Paul Scham
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Letters Letter | Not all D.C. Jews are ‘terrified’
Dear Editor, As a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., I was offended by the headline of Carly Pildis’s recent Forward opinion piece. By no means all Jews in D.C. are “terrified” as we await President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. For my part, I am not at all terrified by recent events, not even by the sinister…
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Opinion Why Are You So Confused by J Street’s Muslim Zionist?
I’ve been watching out for articles about Amna Farooqi, the new Muslim-American President of J Street U, since she was elected last month. There’s more than a little bit of kvelling in that for me, since I taught the first two Israel Studies courses she took at the University of Maryland when she was a…
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