The great William Faulkner once wrote: “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” My trip home to Toronto last summer with my wife and newborn son made me realize how true those words actually are. I saw my baby boy running the same gauntlet that had been my childhood, passed in…
Inspired by tales of legendary fighters Jack “Kid” Berg, Lew Tendler and Barney Ross, Brooklyn-based artist Charles Miller turned his canvas toward the ring to create a series of paintings focused on Jews who dominated the sport of boxing in the early 20th century. Between 1910 and 1940, there were 27 Jewish world-boxing champions, and…
A couple of years ago, my family and I vacationed in Egypt. In Cairo, we stayed at the Marriott Hotel in Zamalek, a former palace situated on an island in the Nile. At night, kept awake by the constant din of automobile traffic, we could gaze at the reflection of the lights on that mighty…
Will Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz address an open audience at Brandeis next Tuesday night or will the powers that be insist that the event is closed to the public? As we covered in our pages this week, former president Jimmy Carter is headed to Waltham, Mass. on January 23 to speak and answer questions…
Will comedian and pundit Al Franken really go head-to-head with Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008? Looks like a distinct possibility – in recent days Franken has reached out to all the members of the state’s Democratic delegation, according to a report from the Associated Press today. If Franken were elected, he would be the…
MEMRI has excerpts of President Carter’s interview with Al-Jazeera (video or transcript).
For those who missed it, Carter’s heading to Brandeis after all, next week.
The Republican Jewish Coalition says Wesley Clark’s letter to the ADL was not enough to explain away his comment that the U.S. is likely to strike Iran because “there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.” In his letter to the ADL’s Abe Foxman, Clark said:…
The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee is taking on internet behemoth Amazon.com, for reprinting Jeffrey Goldberg’s critical review of former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.” Keep reading to see the group’s boycott-threatening letter, which seems to have been sent out to activists, and was forwarded to our offices by a Jewish politico. To:…
John Edwards might be running to the left of Hillary on the Iraq war, but he sounded Joe Lieberman-like on Iran, during a speech in Israel at the high-powered Herzliya Conference. Some snippets… “Iran is serious about its threats.” “The challenges in your own backyard – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel.”…
John Edwards might be running to the left of Hillary on the Iraq war, but he sounded Joe Lieberman-like on Iran, during a speech in Israel at the high-powered Herzliya Conference. Some snippets… “Iran is serious about its threats.” “The challenges in your own backyard – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel.”…
