A book review and how it relates to my own life etc.

By Laura Cooper May 22, 2011

I’m annoyed (and not just at Obama; I think you’ve got that covered anyway). I’m reading a book called The New Rabbi by Stephen Fried (2002), and it’s not very good. It’s a journalistic log of what happens “when a rabbi is replaced” in a popular, large and prominent congregation, which may or may not…

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Acknowledging Each Other’s Right to Exist

By greback May 22, 2011

One would think that you cannot surrender your moral high ground in the Middle East. To do so is suicide so the thinking goes. It would be a display of weakness. And so no country owns up to its mistakes, much less its crimes. The Arab World that admits it created the Israel they whine…

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Obama Can Still Steal Iran’s Thunder: Support Bahrain’s Shiites

By greback May 22, 2011

President Obama missed a major opportunity last week: to become repressed Shiites’ patron and steal Iran’s thunder. The crackdown in Bahrain, more than any other Arab country, offer a stupendous opening to US foreign policy and the regional balance of power. The United States should consider an aggressive policy against the Bahraini monarchy, solicit the…

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