Posts Tagged: thomas friedman
Boycott or Opportunity? You Can’t Have Both
JNS.org - There is a smug sense of "I told you so" about much of the recent commentary concerning the challenge that Israel faces...
NYT’s Friedman: Kerry May Unveil Peace Plan Soon
JNS.org - After months of tireless diplomacy, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may be set to outline his framework for a peace deal...
Flouting Critics, U.S. Jewish Groups Continue Iran Push
Times of Israel - A day after columnist Thomas Friedman blasted Jewish groups for allying with Saudi Arabia in what he described as a push...
Thomas Friedman Uses Holocaust Scholars’ Playbook
JNS.org - For years, an organization of Holocaust scholars has been waging what it says is a lonely effort to convince the Obama administration...
‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ Really?
Among the many Israeli sources of irritation for The New York Times, none is more persistently aggravating than Jewish settlements. August has been an especially...
Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik (REVIEW)
Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik (Ontario: Freedom Press, 2013). The first two words of the title Choosing Life in Israel, by P....
A Parent’s Pride and Fear: My Three IDF Reservists
Soldiers wait to be called, and their parents die a little bit inside during this wait. Our three sons are infantrymen, reserve soldiers who expected to...
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco (REVIEW)
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, trans. Richard Dixon (HoughtonMifflinHarcourt, 2011). The center of this novel is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a...
Koch: My End of Year Lament
Almost everyone who lives in New York City knows that I am Jewish. Most know that I am a secular Jew who believes in God,...
Rabbi Protests Thomas Friedman at Yale (VIDEO)
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was met with open hostility as he addressed students at Yale last week. The Pulitzer Prize winning author delivered...
Israel Without Rupert Murdoch
One would be hard pressed to find a non-Jew who has been honored by more Jewish organizations than Rupert Murdoch. (Yes, much to the chagrin...
Thomas Friedman’s Partition Plan
On June 18, 2011 the New York Times published an Op-Ed by its columnist Thomas Friedman, named "What to Do With Lemons," suggesting to "update...
Middle East in Turmoil; The World Is Not Flat
Few articles about the uprising in Egypt were more infuriating than Thomas Friedman's column in this week's New York Times. Titled B.E., Before Egypt. A.E.,...
