by zt [➚] · Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I just saw that, AJCommittee leaked a memo expressing unease with Obama’s candidacy.
The main concerns seem to have to do with Israel and Iran.
On Israel, Feuer, AJC’s Counsel for Special Projects and the author of the memo, says:
Obama “appears to believe the Israelis bear the burden of taking the risky steps for peace, and that the violence Israel has received in return does not shift that burden,†Feuer writes.
Friends of mine who have strong backgrounds in foreign affairs seem very comfortable with Obama’s stance on Israel. I personally find it more compelling than the seven-odd years Bush lolly-gagged around before stepping up to the plate. Obama rightly believes that Israelis and Palestinians have both erred substantially. Kudos to him for saying so when many, scared of the Israel lobby, blunted their criticisms for campaign dollars.
On Iran:
The memo also expresses concern about Obama’s potential approach to dealing with Iran, in the wake of a new National Intelligence Estimate, released in November 2007, which judged that the country had halted its alleged nuclear weapons program in 2003.
It seems the memo wishes he would interpret the NIE as evidence that we ought to invade Iran as well. Alas, it says Iran suspended its nuclear proliferation program several years ago. Obama suggested diplomacy before that report was released and still does. Again, Kudos to him. AJC, has the Iraq not taught you enough?
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by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
(By Leah Koenig, X-posted from The Jew & The Carrot)
Many people complain that it’s difficult to find a synagogue to join in New York City. There are just so many options, that none of them feel exactly right – you might call it The Shul-Goers Dilemma. These days, however, I’m feeling pretty good at Temple Bet Pollan.
Michael Pollan gets his fair share of love on this blog, and his new book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
has already joined its predecessor, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
as a New York Times Best Seller. Pollan is in the middle of his second whirlwind book tour in two years (I guess he sleeps on the plane) – and I hear the same account every where he goes. Huge venue, sold out show, knockout performance.
Like any effective leader – Martin Luther King included – he’s charismatic and big on the big ideas that change the way we think – or in this case how we eat. But as I devoured (pun intented) Pollan’s new book on my subway commute, I wondered what, if anything, does his worldview offer to the Jewish community? And, perhaps more interestingly, what wisdom does the tribe have to offer back to him?
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by Kol Ra'ash Gadol [➚] · Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.
These years have not been easy years, and certainly for many of them, we have had to spend our energy trying to fight those who would overturn it. But it is a struggle we must continue with. To go back to the days before Roe v. Wade would be a disaster: in the dark days in which abortions were outlawed in most states, women died, regularly, of botched abortions. I don’t suppose it’s news to anyone that that’s the case, but just in case, let’s review a current case: Nicaragua.
Since Nicaragua outlawed abortions once again in 2006, we know of – for certain- over 100 women who have died. Keep in mind those are the ones who were reported, who made news; we will probably never know how many women really.
Over at Human Rights Watch, check out their report, from which I quote:
A medical doctor at a large public hospital in Managua, however, testified to one case:
Here [at this hospital] we have had women who have died.… For example, [name withheld] came here and had an ultrasound. It was clear that she needed a therapeutic abortion. No one wanted to carry out the abortion because the fetus was still alive. The woman was here two days without treatment until she expulsed the fetus on her own. And by then she was already in septic shock and died five days later. That was in March 2007.
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by Kol Ra'ash Gadol [➚] · Sunday, January 20th, 2008
And how often do I get to post from my favorite blog, Consumerist, on Jewschool? I’m gonna grab this baby and run with it:
We all know that people have been -for quite some time- acting under the mistaken notion that kosher = healthy. I seem to recall some major war in Poland between two different rabbis and their organizations over who got to oversee Polish vodka production because people there were convinced that kosher meant better product.
Now, Chinese exporters are betting that kosher certification can convince foreign consumers that their wares are safe. It’s just another marketing tool for them, of course.
Consumerist quotes the San Jose Mercury News:
Many Chinese companies were unfamiliar with the concept: One furniture maker asked for kosher certification, drawing a polite rebuff. Another facility asked to get certified as kosher even though it was smoking eel on site, a kosher no-no. The company was turned down; it is now building a separate, kosher-only facility.
And many companies weren’t ready for the grilling the rabbis gave them on their first visits to their plants, seeing it as a sign of distrust. “In China, everything works on relationships,” said Grunberg of the Orthodox Union, which certifies more than 400,000 products worldwide.
The News, also notes that according to the OU, Kosher certifications by rabbis have doubled to more than 300 in China in the past two years. Originally, it was apparently to get access to the kosher market, $11.5 billion U.S a year, but after the rash of problems with contaminated pet food, toothpaste, seafood and the like, Chinese exporters have turned to kashrut certification in order to assure people that their product is safe.
There might be some benefit to having kashrut oversight: since 2001, the Orthodox Union has required makers of products it certifies as kosher to place a code on their packages identifying the plant where it was made so the product can be traced in a recall. However, since September of this year, all Chinese food exports have been required to have this code by Chinese regulators.
It doesn’t especially bother me, really, though, I must admit. While I don’t think that hashgacha is likely to make the products safer (or at least not much) at least there’s the possibility that there will be more interesting products at my local cheapo grocery that I can buy. I can’t tell you how excited I was when I found some very tasty red bean flavored steamed buns with a nice OU on them!
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by TheWanderingJew [➚] · Saturday, January 19th, 2008
If you’re able to get to Tel Aviv tomorrow (Sunday) or Haifa next weekend, you ought to check out “South Coast.” I caught tonight’s screening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and really got into it.
A feature length documentary, it explores the 25ish year history of hip hop in Brighton, England, comparing it to the scenes in the US (“east coast” and “west coast” America lend to the film’s “south coast” England title), London, and other parts of Europe. Listen to good music, watch some amazing break-dancing, see local writers and graffiti artists, and throw in a tonne of archival footage and interviews, and you too will be an expert on the south coast hip hop scene.
Thanks to the Hebrew subtitles, you can also chalk it up to an, um, educational viewing: learn new slang that you might otherwise miss out on. Learn the hip hop culture jargon – dis haters, curse, bboy and pop, and scratch – b’ivrit. (If only I’d brought a notepad!)
“South Coast” has recently picked up Israeli distribution and will be showing on more dates and screens in the near future. Check out the website for more details. In the meantime, you have two more chances to catch “South Coast” (“äçåó äãøåîé”), and ask the director, Will Jewell, questions after the screening, as part of the 7th British Film Festival.
by E. [➚] · Friday, January 18th, 2008
New Yiddish Rep, founded by David Mandelbaum of La MaMa and Theater for the New City fame, is proud to present 3 new pieces for Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike!
Sunday January 20th at 7 pm.
Tsures ba Laytn / People with Troubles
A reading of three Yiddish radio melodramas by the great Nahum Stutchkoff. If you think Jews in the 1940s had it easy (though you probably don’t), Stutchkoff will set you straight. Catastrophic illness, death, infidelity, and other old-time radio entertainment. No English supertitles.
Sunday February 3rd at 7 pm.
Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d.
The last testament of a Chasid before his death fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Holocaust classic by Zvi Kolitz. Adapted for the stage and performed by David Mandelbaum, directed by Amy Coleman. In Yiddish with English super-titles.
Monday, February 4th at 7 pm.
The Essence, a dim sum of Yiddish Theater
An overview of Yiddish Theater from Abraham Goldfaden to the present day. Created by Allen Rickman, performed by Allen Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson and Steve Sterner. Narration in English, songs and scenes in Yiddish with English supertitles.
There is also a film series in conjunction with the New Yiddish Rep’s new projects. On January 24th, New Yiddish Rep will present Grine Felder, 1937, USA. The National Center for Jewish Film writes about the film: An ascetic young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews.†The most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish talkies, Edgar G. Ulmer’s soulful open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. Green Fields celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness and innate piety – no other movie has ever represented the shtetl with such lyricism.
All of the performances and screenings will take place at:
The Community Synagogue
325 E. 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
Suggested Donation of 15 dollars for performances. The theater appreciates donations, but maintains an “pay as you exit” policy to ensure that Yiddish theater is accessible to everyone. So come support new Yiddish theater, Jewish art and community development! We’ll see you there!
by chillul Who? [➚] · Friday, January 18th, 2008
These articles from the New York Jewish Week and the Jewish Daily Forward do a wonderful job telling us what happened. The usual suspects are all there: a faith-based organization, a homosexual scandal, a Facebook protest group.
What it doesn’t properly convey is, how did we get here? So a gay alumnus was barred by his yeshivah high school’s administration from attending his 10-year reunion with his same-sex partner — so what?
The Orthodox don’t like the gays. Isn’t that all we need to know?
Not really.
I’m trying to collect my thoughts about high school, about openness, about sexuality and spirituality and about the history of the Yeshivah of Flatbush, at one time a standard-bearer of Modern Orthodoxy in America. But I keep coming back to the prophet Yeshayah.
In chapter 55, towards the start of the Haftara reading for public fast days, Yeshayah haNavi speaks in God’s name: “כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר יֵרֵד הַגֶּשֶׁם וְהַשֶּׁלֶג מִן-הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְשָׁמָּה לֹא יָשׁוּב–כִּי אִם-הִרְוָה אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וְהוֹלִידָהּ וְהִצְמִיחָהּ; וְנָתַן זֶרַע לַזֹּרֵעַ, וְלֶחֶם לָאֹכֵל. כֵּן יִהְיֶה דְבָרִי אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא מִפִּי, לֹא-יָשׁוּב אֵלַי רֵיקָם: כִּי אִם-עָשָׂה אֶת-אֲשֶׁר חָפַצְתִּי, וְהִצְלִיחַ אֲשֶׁר שְׁלַחְתִּיו.”
(Just as the rains and the snows fall from the sky and do not return without saturating the earth that it may sprout and blossom, giving seeds to the sower and bread to the diner: so will these words exiting my mouth not return to me empty, but they will complete their mission and accomplish my will.)
Therein lies the difference between us and God. God, it is traditionally asserted, knows the inner thoughts of every living thing, and sees the future to its farthest conclusion. We rarely know the end results of any of our actions.
Flatbush was a great place for me. I grew up in Brooklyn in a Modern Orthodox family. I was a smart kid with a vivid imagination and a bit of a passive-aggressive streak. I believed in fairness, in the Judaism I was taught, and that God was truly good and was looking out for all of us.
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by Y-Love [➚] · Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Columnist/blogger Andrew Sullivan from The Atlantic’s “Daily Dish” received a letter from a reader commenting on Richard Cohen’s Washington Post column, “Obama’s Farrakhan Test” written in the aftermath of the backlash from the anti-Muslim emails sent out to potential Jewish voters these past couple weeks. Cohen’s column calls Obama into question for not having spoken out against his church’s having awarded one of its most prestigious awards to Louis Farrakhan.
Sullivan writes about how perturbed he is about the Cohen piece, saying that he has long advocated the viability of a black presidential candidate, and adding that:
And so…some Jewish-Americans, seeing a black man with real power emerging on the national scene, immediately panic that it’s Farrakhan in disguise.
This Daily Dish reader apparently thought of the column as representative and symptomatic of a far deeper, more insidious problem of general distrust among Jewish voters and a cynical eye being cast towards Obama:
[U]nfortunately I think Obama faces a lot of obstacles with the Jews–especially older ones who’ve grown leery of the black community. The anti-semitism there is real, and not just with Farrakhan, but with Jesse Jackson referring to New York as “Hymie Town” to and Al Sharpton calling Jews “diamond merchants” and Andrew Young’s more recent comments about Jewish store-keepers. And these aren’t isolated incidents – the hate pops out of the mouths of rappers and athletes. This is especially hurtful to a group that has traditionally espoused black civil rights.
Sadly even my mother, who lives in Florida, says about Obama, “I just don’t trust him.” She can’t give any reasons, though she will usually mutter something about Israel.
My mother’s fear is that he’ll cut ties to Israel. She’s typical of the older generation and their belief that in every black person’s heart, there is hatred toward the Jews….Cohen’s column is a disgrace. There is something of the “loyalty oath” about it. But, unfortunately, it’s more deeply reflective of Jewish opinion than any of us rabid Obama supporters would like to admit. I don’t know much about what Obama is doing to reach out to Jews, but he should probably be doing more of it.
I definitely agree with the reader that Obama needs to be doing far more outreach to Jews — the reality of Obama’s “impeccable” voting record on Israel issues has simply not reached enough people “on the ground”.
My major fear is, will his publicists be working in vain pushing subjectively irrelevant information to a population whose collective mind is already made up? One finds no shortage of young Jewish Obama supporters (some of whom said his “views on Israel…put their minds at ease”, but is the older generation so set in its ways that it can not warm up to the idea of a pro-Israel black liberal president? Is it to this end that the Forward notes that Jewish South Carolinians historically sought “to balance their Jewish identity with acceptance into the larger white community” even until the tolerance of slavery — did some unfortunate Jews of old lie down with the antebellum pro-slavery dogs of South Carolina’s yesteryear and are their descendents waking up with post-Jim Crow fleas in this campaign?
In reaction to Cohen’s column, Obama issued a statement saying:
“I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan,” Obama said in the statement. “I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree.”
(Part of me also wants to say that this reader’s mother is driven by a mutated version of the left’s anti-Semitism, but from a defensive. Threat-based racism (“all members of group X want to kill me and I can’t let that happen”), or any other prejudice-based reason for not voting for a candidate will easily find themselves well covered over by a claim of “oh s/he won’t support Israel.”)
Is today’s under-40 Jewish voter so much more intrinsically enlightened than those of the prior generation? I think that those of us for whom Web 2.0 is not something we encountered in middle age, and for whom multicultural interaction was a quite un-revolutionary norm from infancy, have had our brains primed for Obama in a way previous generations have not. We have seen alliances rise and fall in unprecedented ways, and life under the yoke of the anti-Semitism previous generations lived under will make one wary of even the most benevolent.
But I think it behooves us, those of us with parents in that generation, to stop them from contributing to the ruination of the election for us — and chas v’shalom voting for a right-wing candidate, running after a blue-and-white mirage of “doing something good for Israel”.
by BZ [➚] · Thursday, January 17th, 2008
This post is by guest contributor Amit.
The first Jewish university in history, the Hebrew University, was established in 1925, on Mt. Scopus outside of Jerusalem. In 1948, when the state of Israel was established, the university was moved to several buildings in town – most notably the Terra Sancta College, which was returned to the Latin Patriarchate several years ago. The University became a public institute and was put to work churning out doctors and lawyers and teachers for the new state. Ben Gurion also made it part of his personal agenda to establish the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, which is the world’s largest repository of copies of Hebrew manuscripts. Slowly, the universities became part and parcel of the governmental educational system, all the while sacrificing more and more of their financial freedom in return for promises of government money.
Less and less money, obviously, has been coming in, as the Israeli treasury is adopting not only a Thatcherist economic worldview, but is run by a professional level that has no college education save in economics. So the universities are cutting back on chairs and lab funds and library money. 800 senior professors have left Israeli universities in the past ten years, an amount that is equal to the current number of professors at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute together. Anyone who has gone to an American college can remember at least one Israeli professor, I’m sure, and more PhD candidates and holders are leaving all the time.
The universities are also trying to save money by employing less and less fairly. Adjunct professors are fired every eight months so the universities won’t have to give them a pension plan. Research assistants are as well. The cleaning and security staff is outsourced to external contractors so the universities won’t have to give them benefits university employees are entitled to.
Against this backdrop, the senior faculty (i.e. tenure-track professors), is demanding that the government raise their salaries by 30%. The government will not budge. The professors chose not to direct their anger at the general deficiencies of the universities, because then their strike would be broken by the courts – so they focused on the fact that the public sector has received more pay raises in the past ten years than they have, and this is an argument the labor courts cannot counter, and under Israeli law the strike can go on indefinitely. The university presidents asked for injunction orders nonetheless, which created a tremendous breach of trust between them and their former colleagues.
The students – who have been working and coping with a 50% courseload at the same time – are suffering both from the strike, which now looks as if it will cancel the semester, if not the school year – but also from the general state of higher education in Israel – don’t really know whom they should be supporting. Should it be the professors, who ignored the students’ strike last year, and who seem not to be starving (like the teachers, who just finished their strike) – or should it be the treasury, who is itching to implement a plan to triple tuition and fund less and less of the universities’ budget proportionately?
It is, quite truthfully, the battle of the stupid professors – who created a strike which excludes all but the richest of the universities’ employees – and the evil treasury, who would like nothing more than to stop government funding for all but the most necessary of sciences (which would be business administration, thanks for asking).
The professors and the treasury are meeting now to try and broker an agreement. The university presidents announced that if there is no settlement by Friday noon, the universities in Israel will close – for the first time in their 80-year history – until further notice.
by Ruby K [➚] · Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Since I have a history of not holding back when I disagree with Jewish institutions, it’s nice to see they get one right this morning:
As leaders of the Jewish community, none of whose organizations will endorse or oppose any candidate for President, we feel compelled to speak out against certain rhetoric and tactics in the current campaign that we find particularly abhorrent. Of particular concern, over the past several weeks, many in our community have received hateful emails that use falsehood and innuendo to mischaracterize Senator Barack Obama’s religious beliefs and who he is as a person.
Kudos to the folks at the Wiesenthal Center for starting this up, and to the folks who affixed their name to it, including reps from the JCPA, the Religious Action Center, the Orthodox Union, UJC, the AJC, the National Council of Jewish Women, and even the Anti Defamation League. Yasher Koach on this one.
(hat tip: the good folks at TPM)
by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Avigdor Lieberman, avowed racist and right-wing MK, pulled his 11-seat Beiteinu party out of the coalition government, leaving Olmert still standing with a majority of 67 of 120 seats but lacking a clear mandate.
CNN reports, “Avigdor Lieberman announced Wednesday he was pulling his Israel Beiteinu party out of Israel’s coalition government because the new push to establish a peace deal was taking the focus off more pressing issues, such as the threat from Iran.”
More:
 Lieberman said the issues of a shared capital, borders with a Palestinian state, and the return of Palestinian refugees are “the most sensitive nerve points of the Israeli society” and threaten to divide the Jewish state.
“We are moving from consensus and agreement to discord,” he said.
…”This process, this direction of Annapolis, I cannot accept and if I cannot accept this process I must be out of the government.”
…Good riddance.
by LastTrumpet [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Opponents of Germany’s new smoking ban have appalled Jewish leaders by selling more than 1,000 “smokers’ T-shirts” that display a yellow Star of David and suggest that discrimination against nicotine addicts is like Nazi anti-Semitism during the Third Reich.
The controversial T-shirts went on sale on an internet site in the run-up to a smoking ban which came in to force in 10 of Germany’s 16 federal states on New Year’s Day. Its promoters insisted that Germany needed to be woken up to what it described as “disgraceful discrimination against smokers” in bars and restaurants and claimed that its shirts were “the most aggressive smokers’ resistance shirt available”
Photographs of the T-shirts show them displaying a yellow Star of David identical to the Judenstern, or “Jewish star”, that the Nazis forced all Jews to wear in Germany after they were elected to power in 1933. The word “Jude”, or “Jew”, which was inscribed in the centre of the Nazi stars, is replaced by the word raucher, or smoker..
Almost as bad as all the “Bush & Olmert are Creating a New Holocaust” signs I saw last week.
Full story.
by BZ [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Once again, we are delighted to announce the courses for the 2008 National Havurah Committee Summer Institute! The Institute will be August 11-17 at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. Every teacher is a student, and every student is a teacher.
Morning:
Afternoon:
- S. Bear Bergman (Poretsky Artist-In-Residence) – Storytelling, Diaspora, and Survival
- Julia Appel – The Art and Spirit of Prayer Leading
- Mitch Chanin – Controversy for the Sake of Heaven: Facilitating constructive dialogue across political differences about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other controversial issues
- Stephen Eisdorfer – Law and The Law
- Shelly Fredman – The Soul’s Search for Meaning—Creating a Personal Theology
- Bob Freedman – What Words Can Do!
- Bob Goldenberg – What is oral about “Oral Torahâ€?
- Matthew Goldfield – Infinity and God
- Jill Jacobs and Guy Izhak Austrian – It Goes Without Saying: Power, Passivity, and Social Change
- Eleni Litt – Line, Color, Form: The Shape of Torah and the Kabbalah of Color
- Benjamin Maron – Beyond the Binary: the “Other†Genders in the Mishna and Contemporary Judaism
- Adele Reinhartz – Diversity and Rupture: The “Parting of the Ways” between Judaism and Christianity
- Aviva Richman – The Vagina Monologues Meet the Talmud
- Micha’el Rosenberg – Do We Mourn for the Dead, or for the Living? The Case of Suicide in Halacha
See you in August!
by E. [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
If there was one book in 2007 that simply didn’t get enough attention, it was Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s volume: Jacques Faitlovitch and the Jews of Ethiopia. For the first half of the 20th century, Faitlovitch was one Lodz-born ideological sculptor of the Ethiopian Jewish ingathering. Before Operation Moses and Solomon, this man transformed himself into a traveler, scholar, Orientalist and Zionist and in turn changed the face of modern Jewry. And within this book, you can dig around the roots of Jewishness in the 21st century – one baffled by its loss of authenticity, and defiant in the face of categorization. Semi’s book offers us a fair and probing look into one Jewish Orientalist, who while striving to save Ethiopian Jews from a Protestant missionary onslaught and collaborating with black Jewish sects in Harlem, ended up creating a valuable piece of history. If he were alive today, he would be writing for Jewschool.
by Kung Fu Jew [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
A quick update from the peace beat, an event tomorrow in Manhattan. Last year at this time, C4P did a tour in the states promoting cessation of violence on both sides. During the tour, Bassam’s daughter was hit with a rubber bullet and died. Now C4P continues their tour across the states, including this stop in New York City.
COMBATANTS FOR PEACE
BASSAM ARAMIN and YONATAN SHAPIRA
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 7:30PM
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at 2nd Avenue
#6 train to Astor Place • F train to Second Ave.
Exactly one year after Abir Aramin was fatally wounded, founding members Bassam Aramin and Yonatan Shapira begin a national speaking tour with Combatants for Peace. Bassam’s wife Salwa and daughter Areen will be present.
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by Ruby K [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
.. but wow, what kind of guilt by association, subliminal implication, concern trolling crap is he pulling today?!
Heck, Obama’s not even my PERSONAL (not all of Jewschool, just speaking for me) first choice (that would be John Edwards). But this is just plain garbage:
I don’t for a moment think that Obama shares Wright’s views on Farrakhan. But the rap on Obama is that he is a fog of a man. We know little about him, and, for all my admiration of him, I wonder about his mettle. The New York Times recently reported on Obama’s penchant while serving in the Illinois legislature for merely voting “present” when faced with some tough issues. Farrakhan, in a strictly political sense, may be a tough issue for him. This time, though, “present” will not do.
Sure. Smear Obama by talking about his preacher. waive all sorts of boogeymen. Use the ghosts of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney to smear the very personification of one of the things they fought for. Hint that Obama doesn’t take racism or antisemitism seriously. And then, end your last paragraph with “I don’t for a moment think that Obama shares Wright’s views on Farrakahn.” Not that you’re an intellectually dishonest hack who’s trying to spin a smokescreen my youngest niece could see through or anything like that. I wouldn’t say that about you.
Trying to push this disgusting meme that Obama is somehow antisemitic and a radical Muslim is pissing me off. And why does he have to answer questions the other candidates never get called to task on by folks like Cohen? Will Cohen write the same article on Huckabee’s Revelations and rapture ready buddies? Even though they’re things Huckabee seems to actually believe himself? Let’s see.
Apparently, I’m not the only person annoyed by this, MJ Rosenberg from Jewschool’s Best of 2007 winning website Talking Points Memo has a good take.
update: Oh look, it’s a whole genre!
by Jewish Robot [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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