Israel-U.S. Mistrust on Iran Paves Way to Attack
A consistent premise in the dizzying game-theory construct that is the run-up to a potential attack on Iran is that the closer the Israeli leadership feels to the U.S. leadership, the less likely...
View ArticleThe Massacre in France, One Day Later
UPDATE: A day later, and we know the likely killer is in fact a Muslim man motivated in part by jihadism and specifically anti-Israel hatred. I still stand by much of this post: not all anti-Semitic...
View ArticleMultiple Choice
Today in Tablet Magazine, literary editor David Samuels sits down with Ben Marcus to discuss his new novel, The Flame Alphabet Keeper of the Flame
View ArticleIsrael Cozies Up to Germany, South Korea
A recent op-ed calls on Israel to cut more naval procurement deals with South Korea, a “world-class sea power” in a different part of the world, even while acknowledging a smart recent purchase it made...
View ArticleBar Refaeli To Star in Mossad Pic
It’s a well-known fact: history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as bad French-Israeli co-production of a B-movie starring Bar Refaeli. The supermodel and underwear enthusiast will join...
View ArticleDenied
Today in Tablet Magazine, historian Deborah Lipstadt asks why Republican Congressman Dave Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, is allowing his senior adviser Aharon Friedman, counsel to...
View ArticleOrchestral
Today in Tablet Magazine, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim recounts the time a boyfriend left her—for God. Prelude and Fugue
View ArticleMeet the New Mets Minority Owners?
Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, owners of the New York Mets, settled a lawsuit brought by the trustee in the Bernard Madoff bankrupty for $162 million (Joe Nocera has an excellent column explaining why the...
View ArticleSundown: Iran Goaded Gaza Terrorists
• Israel has accused Iran of operating in Gaza and Sinai, and forcing Islamic Jihad to prolong last week’s rocket exchanges. [Haaretz] • On Peter Beinart’s Zion Square, dissents from his “Zionist...
View ArticleBack to My Roots
As I filled out the forms to change my last name back to my grandfather’s original surname, I wished my ancestors had been Burmese or Chinese, instead of Polish. Win or Wong would have been a lot...
View ArticleMad Men
Thousands of miles away from the nearest NCAA game, bleary-eyed basketball fans roam the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv suffering from March Madness, a phenomenon known in Hebrew as Mertz...
View ArticleSanctuary
With recent revelations that the New York Police Department engaged in wide-ranging ethnic profiling of Muslim communities in New York—and that they at times mistook Middle Eastern Jews for...
View ArticleDaybreak: Likely French Killer Cites Palestinians
• The suspect in the French Jewish school (and also French soldiers) killings, Mohammed Merah, is in custody after a long stand-off. He claims to belong to Al Qaeda and that the killing was done to...
View ArticleNYC Could Have Only Two Jewish Reps. (or One)
Amid the redistricting shuffle and the news out of Queens and Brooklyn—that Rep. Bob Turner, his district disappearing, will run for Senate; that Rep. Gary Ackerman will retire; that Rory Lancman, who...
View ArticleHameshugah
Today in Tablet Magazine, Todd Warnick reports from Israel, where March Madness—or Mertz Hameshugah—is sweeping the country since so many graduates of American colleges play professionally in the...
View ArticleRomney Makes Strong Case in Illinois
Not that he hadn’t before, but in yesterday’s Illinois primary, Mitt Romney made a convincing case that he is the Republican candidate best suited to taking on President Obama in November’s general...
View ArticleZimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s Killer, Not Jewish
I’ve heard the question asked enough and seen it asked enough over Facebook and what-not that it seems worth answering: no, George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford,...
View ArticleSurveillance Activity
Today in Tablet Magazine, Jacob Silverman reviews Moroccan-French director Ismaël Ferroukhi’s new film, Free Men, about Muslim members of the French Resistance in World War II, in light of recent...
View ArticleKiller’s Jihadism Shakes Up French Politics
This morning, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned the killing of four Jews at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and, in reference to the alleged killer Mohammed Merah’s statement that...
View ArticleName Change
Today in Tablet Magazine, Paul Sochaczewski recounts his experience changing his last name from Wachtel back to Sochaczewski, the name his ancestors changed after arriving in the United States. Back to...
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