Not Once Did He Say “Jews.” His Own Side Booed Him Anyway. Zohran Mamdani spent the third anniversary of October 7 trying to please everyone. He pleased nobody, and the people who paid...
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October 7th: Three Years Ago This Morning
I’m writing this at about the same hour I woke up three years ago. That Saturday morning the walls of my apartment in Jerusalem started shaking from booms, and at 8:15 the sirens went off. It...
While We Were Off, Part 4: London Students Pick October 7
There are 365 days in a year. A group of London students looked at all of them and picked October 7. The group calls itself the University of London Coalition, and it’s planning to march from...
While We Were Off, Part 2: Dancing at the Nova Site
Simchat Torah 2023 is the day the music stopped at Nova. Hamas murdered 378 people at the rave in the Re’im Forest and dragged 44 more into Gaza. Three years later, this past Saturday, dozens...
Same Story, Bigger Screen: NAZA and the Treason That Wasn’t, Until It Was
I haven’t seen NAZA. I mention this up front because it seems to be the one thing I have in common with nearly everyone in Israel who is currently furious about it. The film hasn’t...
Stairs, Ships, Swedish Babes, Menachem Begin and a Tuna
Athens in 1982, a ferry with no beds, my father’s sunken destroyer, and a song about a Walkman and heartbreak. A photo of a staircase showed up in my feed this week and the memories started flooding...
Choreography, Not Courage: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv
Rahm Emanuel gave a speech in Tel Aviv yesterday. OK. Cool, right? I met his niece, Rebekah Emanuel in Jerusalem in 2012 at one of those 2-day conferences that the city’s tourist infrastructure...
F*ck Your Bagels, Zohran
Civics 101, real quick: Jewish Americans have the same constitutional right as every other group of Americans to organize, advocate, donate, lobby, and support whatever political causes they believe...