Tag Archives: Sheldon Adelson

Quick Takes: On Jerusalem, Trump Plays to His Base . . .

Ralph Seliger

WHILE THREATENING PEACE AND UNDERMINING ZIONISM by Ralph Seliger   THE PRESIDENT’S DECISION to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is a typical Trump move, pleasing his strongest supporters while doing nothing concretely positive. He’s winning kudos from Evangelical Christians and hard-right Zionists, including, most importantly, Sheldon Adelson, who backed his presidential campaign to the tune […]

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American Jews Line Up Against the Trump Ban

Ron Skolnik

by Ron Skolnik WITH NOT MUCH to smile about since Inauguration Day, it has been heartening to see the nearly undivided reaction of the American Jewish community to Donald Trump’s January 27 Executive Order (EO) on immigration and refugee admission – widely considered to constitute a Muslim ban. With one or two glaring exceptions — […]

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No Palestine? No Problem!

Ron Skolnik

THE GOP VANISHES THE PALESTINIANS AND THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION by Ron Skolnik   IN AN ACT of legerdemain worthy of Criss Angel, David Copperfield, or the legendary illusionist, Harry Houdini, the Republican Party has just pulled off one of the most astounding political magic tricks of our generation: It has made an entire people –- […]

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McCarthyism in Israel

Ron Skolnik

Suppression By the Government, Segregation in the Streets by Ron Skolnik From the Spring 2016 issue of Jewish Currents WHEN THE KNESSET’S Education and Culture Commitee convened in early January to discuss the work of Breaking the Silence (BTS), one of Israel’s foremost anti-occupation organizations, it was clear in advance that the fix was in. […]

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O My America: Schumer’s Soul

lawrencebush

by Lawrence Bush MY WIFE was on the phone with Senator Chuck Schumer’s office on Friday when I came in through the door. She was urging the Senator to support the agreement with Iran, so I got on the phone to add my two cents — backed by my editorship of a Jewish magazine with […]

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O My America: Shaking the Grogger at Bibi

lawrencebush

by Lawrence Bush LAST YEAR I saw Sheldon Adelson suggesting to an auditorium full of Jews at Yeshiva University that the United States fire a nuclear missile into “the Iranian desert somewhere” as a warning to Iran not to go nuclear. (And I watched Shmuely Boteach, “America’s Rabbi,” sitting by the old billionaire’s side, grinning […]

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December 1: Sarah Silverman

lawrencebush

What shall we say about Sarah Silverman — born in Bedford, New Hampshire on this date in 1970 — but that she has taken comedy to new levels of tension and raunchiness that nearly, but not quite, make us wince as much as laugh? Silverman satirizes prejudice, sexism, ignorance, arrogance, insensitivity, and other destructive social behaviors by […]

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Further Reading

Standing Up to Likud’s Voter Suppression

The Ecological War on Gaza

The Making of Andy Ngo

Yiddish Fiddler’s Unseen Triumphs

Am I a Jew or a Pole?

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