10 Questions for George Allen
Now that George Allen has ’fessed up to the truth of his origins, shedding the aspersion and joining the Dispersion, the voting public is entitled to a full accounting of the affair. Here are 10 questions that we believe the senator needs to answer:
1) Corned beef with Russian dressing: Kosher or kosher-style?
2) Christmas dinner: Ham, turkey or Chinese?
3) Madonna and Kabbalah: What’s not to like?
4) Feith, Wolfowitz, Libby: Cabal, patriots or killer infield?
5) Hank Aaron or Hank Greenberg?
6) Circumcision: Mazel tov or ouch?
7) Menachem Schneerson: Will he make a comeback?
8) Caspar Weinberger, Harold Brown, James Schlesinger: Who was the first Jewish secretary of defense?
9) What kind of name is Caspar, anyway?
10) Ari Fleischer. Would it have killed him to marry a nice Jewish girl? Maybe one his own age?
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
, editor-in-chiefSupport our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
