Is this really my first post of 2010? My bad....
There have been numerous ups & downs in the Israel-US relationship, and last week's fiasco between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Vice President Joe Biden hardly represents the worst low of this complicated international relationship. In February 2005, the Bush administration sanctioned its ally in the "war on terror" over Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles sales to China, suspending arms shipments and cooperative endeavors for many months. In September 1991, US President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker held up $10 billion in US loan guarantees for many months in protest of Israel's settlement obsession. Going further back, President Gerald Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger "reassessed" the US-Israeli relationship in 1975 and suspended arms shipments to Israel for 6 months. The "atmospherics" between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu in 2010 are reported to be awful, but we are nowhere near the kind of hysterics that went on between the US and Israel over the settlement issue in decades past. At least not yet.
Still, there is something of a kind of "fuck you" quality that seems inexplicable and distasteful in how VP Joe Biden was treated by the Israelis on March 9, 2010. Forget the endless backstory -- here is what is important: Joe Biden has been one of Israel's best friends in the Senate since the mid 1970s; as he rose to become an expert in the Senate on foreign affairs he was cultivated and allowed himself to be cultivated by Israel and the Israeli lobby. In Congress, being pro-Israel is easy and is the norm. But American Jews sensed something more in Joe Biden (the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 2001-2003 and 2007-08) than pandering knee-jerk opportunism (like that practiced by Hillary Clinton, soon-to-be Senator of New York). Joe Biden was a "true friend of Israel," the special status which helps catapult a senator from Delaware into the big leagues.
Israeli politicians love such Senators. "True friends of Israel" are treated like visiting High Commissioners whenever they pass through. Meetings with President Peres and PM Netanyahu, helicopter tours of the Holy Land with the Defense Minister, meetings with any Israeli politician you'd like, all with the finest coffee and danish. No expense is spared. After all, Israel receives $3 billion a year annually in US foreign aid, and Congress is the place where these things are scored and marked up.
You'd think that for the 60 hours that Joe Biden made his first visit to Israel as the US Vice President, the Israelis could orchestrate an embarrassment-free visit. Unless the Israeli master-of-ceremonies is Binyamin Netanyahu.
With Bibi serving as Biden's host, Biden was forced to condemn Israeli behavior during his visit (something he had no intention of doing), and Secretary of State Clinton was publicly calling the 60-hour visit an "insult to the United States" and delivering a private verbal bitch-slap to Netanyahu himself. The State Department called in Israel's ambassador to deliver a stern upbraiding. David Axelrod called the Israeli behavior an "insult and affront" and everyone questioned the "reliability" of Netanyahu. Tom Friedman wrote that Israeli leaders "have lost total contact with reality."
Thursday morning, as he was to depart Israel-Palestine, Biden gave a speech at Tel Aviv University. His prepared speech spoke of the "incredible hospitality" of the Israeli people. But nothing that occurred in his 60-hour visit was hospitable. Biden had come to praise Israel and the Palestinian Authority for agreeing to enter into a round of shuttle diplomacy (called for some strange reason "proximity" talks), the first supposedly substantive negotiations between the two sides in over a year. Biden was to deliver a message of friendship and affection for Israel, a "well done" slap on the back to Netanyahu for bucking his right-wing base and agreeing to some tactical adjustments in settlement policy. Biden was also there to let Israel know that the US is going to work hard with the world community to punish Iran for its adventurism. It was supposed to be a "good cop" visit, all hugs and kisses.
The Sunday before Biden touched down, on the very day that the Arab League endorsed Palestinian participation in the proximity talks, the Israeli cabinet announced it would go ahead ("for security reasons") with 119 new units in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Beitar Ilit (in violation of its commitment to a partial moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank). Biden thus arrived in Israel with a mini-crisis on his hands. The Palestinians were outraged by Israel's announcement, but not enough to abandon the talks -- better to score an easy diplomatic point than walk away from the only game in town. In fact, the Israeli cabinet likely knew it could make the announcement without jeopardizing the proximity talks -- the Ramallah leadership is so bereft and broken that it endures such Israeli slaps with little more than an ineffectual lambasting.
What came on Tuesday in Israeli minds was far less controversial than the 119 units in Beitar Ilit. A subcommittee of the Interior Ministry approved 1600 long-planned units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, on the northern edge of what Israelis consider to be municipal Jerusalem. Back in November of 2009 when Netanyahu agreed to a partial moratorium on construction of settlements, he specifically reserved for himself and for all who would listen the God-given right for his Israeli government to build housing units in the "undivided eternal capital of the Jewish people." But the sheer brazenness of the announcement, the quantity of it, and the timing of it, was simply too much to ignore.
Biden went ballistic with Netanyahu that evening. It wasn't simply the affront to the Vice President; it represented a strategic threat to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Netanyahu, claiming no prior knowledge of the Interior Ministry's decision, apologized for the timing of the announcement, but not for the substance of the move. On Wednesday, the Palestinians in Ramallah were more than pleased to hear Biden condemn the Israeli move. By Thursday, Biden was delivering a two-part message: 1) there is simply "no space" between Israel and the US on matters of security, and Israel has no better friend (the original message); and 2) "only close friends can tell you the truth" -- that the settlement policy is a disaster to Israel and to the United States (the new message, probably crafted by Middle East hand Dennis Ross, who was on the trip visiting with old friends on both sides).
It doesn't matter whether Netanyahu knew what was coming as his own government announced (with blaring fanfare) a decision which would infuriate the world and play perfectly to his political domestic base. Whatever the timing, the construction of new Jewish housing units in parts of Jerusalem that weren't part of Israel before 1967 is a specific goal of the Netanyahu government. (Check this link to see how Jerusalem's municipal boundaries have been expanded by Israeli decree.) In fact, this government would not exist if Netanyahu weren't committed to expanding Jewish neighborhoods in Arab East Jerusalem. The expansion of Jerusalem construction was one of the key platform planks of Netanyahu's government. This Likud Israeli government does not care one tiny bit what Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, or David Axelrod (let alone Barack Obama) think of housing construction in Israeli-defined municipal Jerusalem. Israel came into existence against great odds by openly defying the great post-World War I British superpower. It is part of the historical DNA of the modern Zionist movement to disregard the prodding of foe and friend alike. As throughout the Middle East, so too in Israel: defiance of the colonial overlord is an essential ingredient for domestic popularity, and a key element of the proud national self-narrative.
On the other hand, Netanyahu does not want to see his second shot at the PM-ship of Israel go down in flames like his first go-around between 1996 and 1999. His first PM-ship unraveled because he could not have it both ways. He could not play to his domestic base and make his American allies simultaneously happy. Months ago, I speculated that the Obama administration could not envision a successful negotiation between Israel and Palestine with Netanyahu at the Israeli helm, and with Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian helm. But these are the cards you are dealt. Poor George Mitchell has brought the two distrusting sides to accept the farcical theater of shuttle diplomacy, and will dutifully race back and forth the 40 minute drive between West Jerusalem and Ramallah until the talks inevitably unravel.
Eighteen months ago, Israel's supporters in America thanked their lucky stars that Barack Hussein Obama had Joe Biden to his left and Rahm Emanuel to his right, with Hilary Clinton in Foggy Bottom. Israel's supporters thought all would be well, whatever Obama's friendliness with Chicago-based egghead critics of Israel. Leave it to the bumbling and inept Binyamin Netanyahu to singlehandedly turn the entire Obama administration into an orchestra of Israel criticism. It couldn't happen to a more deserving asshole.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thinking About Airline Security
The decade that began with 9/11 ends with the near-miss of 12/25. Paul Krugman called this decade today in the New York Times the "Big Zero," the decade we accomplished nothing and learned nothing. He was talking about the economy, but it applies to other things as well. When it comes to terrorism and air travel, it certainly has been the "Big Zero" decade. We haven't learned a thing.
I flew back from Israel on December 22, 3 days before the latest Christmas Day fizzled attack on a Northwest/Delta Airbus 330 as it was descending towards the Detroit airport. On December 22, I flew on a Delta flight. Before I ever entered the plane at Ben Gurion Airport, I was subjected to 9 distinct security measures. I knew, as do all air travellers leaving Israel, that I needed to arrive at the airport security line 3 hours before departure time. So here is what happened: (1) My taxi was stopped at a fixed security checkpoint more than a mile out from the airport. (2) I was eyeballed by a security officer as I walked towards the main entrance of the departure hall. (3) I was pre-screened by a verbal question and sent into a line of other passengers. (4) I was then verbally interviewed by a security officer who examined my passport, my boarding pass, and asked me questions about why I was in Israel, how it was that I spoke Hebrew, who invited me to conduct business in Israel, where I -- once it was apparent I was a Hebrew-speaking American Jew -- prayed in the United States, what my family ties to Israel were, where I stayed, who my friends in Israel are, if I had packed my own case, if I was taking any gifts. (5) My checked luggage was then x-rayed. Because of my answers, I was allowed to skip a hand inspection of the contents of my checked and carry-on luggage (we won't count that). After checking my luggage at the flight desk, (6) my papers were again examined, and (7) I then had my carry on pieces x-rayed and I passed through a magnetometer. The magnetometer went off, and (8) I was then directed to stand on some unusual electrified platform for a few seconds, and only then was I permitted to gather my carry-on and waved through. Let's not count passport control as a security measure (though it is). All this took 90 minutes. I had 30 minutes to visit duty free. Boarding began 1 hour before departure time. At the gate, (9) I was again subjected to a complete x-ray of my carry-on luggage and then subjected to another magnetometer. That lead to the jetway and to the plane. And remember -- because of my answers, I skipped through at least 2 further security layers: a hand inspection of my luggage contents and a body search (I've had both in the past).
Eight days earlier, I flew a Delta flight to Israel from JFK. I was subjected to 4 security measures. (1) My checked luggage was subjected out of my view to an x-ray scan. (2) I had my passport and boarding pass quickly eyeballed by a TSA officer. (3) I then went through a magnetometer while my carry-on was scanned. (4) Because I was flying to Israel, there was a secondary magnetometer and x-ray of my carry-on luggage conducted by bored and apathetic private security personnel at the gate (hired by an airline that is so penny-pinching that it charges $6 for an onboard snack in coach domestic flight). For most flights, that security check at the gate is not performed. No one asked me a question. Not a one.
It doesn't take much brainpower to figure out what is wrong with this picture. The key is the verbal interview. A trained interviewer needs to ask certain intrusive and pointed questions. And based on those answers, certain other questions should be posed. If anything is wrong, keep asking questions, submit luggage to hand inspection, do a body search with a wand or with your hands. And that is something that simply will not be done in these United States. Imagine for a second: ask someone named Umar Farouq Abdalmutallab a few questions. Observe his answers and his demeanor. Have a computer on hand connected to a database of 550,000 names on it. Check his or her name if you have any hesitations about sending him on to his next step. Do this for every single passenger. Profile passengers. Travelling alone? Have an Arabic or Muslim name? Are you a citizen of some country known for terrorist inculcation? (I don't mean the usual suspects -- I also mean Britain.) What is your religious beliefs, if any? Who are your friends?
But we will not see these practices in these United States. "Privacy issues." "Civil rights." "Overly intrusive." But the real issue is the manpower and cost it would take to provide real security for the US air transportation system, which is magnitudes greater than the passenger totals of a single small country's single international airport. Instead we have an understaffed TSA putting passengers through a charade of meaningless procedures which do not actually provide security, but rather dispenses a psychological calming effect to the travelling public.
Rather than ask a question or use professional profiling techniques, the air transportation system responds with palliative demonstrations of faux dynamic response to a heightened sense of insecurity. We now have to sit in our seats without a blanket, have entertainment systems altered to disable GPS maps, time our bathroom trips so we don't spend too much time in the lavatory, and reduce our carry-on belongings. In other words, use the same stupid methods inaugurated in late 2001: subject everyone to ineffective "security measures" because no one will dare ask a passenger a question. This passive security system -- no forward questions, no profiling -- has failed again and again. Until there is a fundamental change in the way the TSA approaches air transportation security, we will never find a solution to the scourge of our modern, hate-filled times.
What a joke.
I flew back from Israel on December 22, 3 days before the latest Christmas Day fizzled attack on a Northwest/Delta Airbus 330 as it was descending towards the Detroit airport. On December 22, I flew on a Delta flight. Before I ever entered the plane at Ben Gurion Airport, I was subjected to 9 distinct security measures. I knew, as do all air travellers leaving Israel, that I needed to arrive at the airport security line 3 hours before departure time. So here is what happened: (1) My taxi was stopped at a fixed security checkpoint more than a mile out from the airport. (2) I was eyeballed by a security officer as I walked towards the main entrance of the departure hall. (3) I was pre-screened by a verbal question and sent into a line of other passengers. (4) I was then verbally interviewed by a security officer who examined my passport, my boarding pass, and asked me questions about why I was in Israel, how it was that I spoke Hebrew, who invited me to conduct business in Israel, where I -- once it was apparent I was a Hebrew-speaking American Jew -- prayed in the United States, what my family ties to Israel were, where I stayed, who my friends in Israel are, if I had packed my own case, if I was taking any gifts. (5) My checked luggage was then x-rayed. Because of my answers, I was allowed to skip a hand inspection of the contents of my checked and carry-on luggage (we won't count that). After checking my luggage at the flight desk, (6) my papers were again examined, and (7) I then had my carry on pieces x-rayed and I passed through a magnetometer. The magnetometer went off, and (8) I was then directed to stand on some unusual electrified platform for a few seconds, and only then was I permitted to gather my carry-on and waved through. Let's not count passport control as a security measure (though it is). All this took 90 minutes. I had 30 minutes to visit duty free. Boarding began 1 hour before departure time. At the gate, (9) I was again subjected to a complete x-ray of my carry-on luggage and then subjected to another magnetometer. That lead to the jetway and to the plane. And remember -- because of my answers, I skipped through at least 2 further security layers: a hand inspection of my luggage contents and a body search (I've had both in the past).
Eight days earlier, I flew a Delta flight to Israel from JFK. I was subjected to 4 security measures. (1) My checked luggage was subjected out of my view to an x-ray scan. (2) I had my passport and boarding pass quickly eyeballed by a TSA officer. (3) I then went through a magnetometer while my carry-on was scanned. (4) Because I was flying to Israel, there was a secondary magnetometer and x-ray of my carry-on luggage conducted by bored and apathetic private security personnel at the gate (hired by an airline that is so penny-pinching that it charges $6 for an onboard snack in coach domestic flight). For most flights, that security check at the gate is not performed. No one asked me a question. Not a one.
It doesn't take much brainpower to figure out what is wrong with this picture. The key is the verbal interview. A trained interviewer needs to ask certain intrusive and pointed questions. And based on those answers, certain other questions should be posed. If anything is wrong, keep asking questions, submit luggage to hand inspection, do a body search with a wand or with your hands. And that is something that simply will not be done in these United States. Imagine for a second: ask someone named Umar Farouq Abdalmutallab a few questions. Observe his answers and his demeanor. Have a computer on hand connected to a database of 550,000 names on it. Check his or her name if you have any hesitations about sending him on to his next step. Do this for every single passenger. Profile passengers. Travelling alone? Have an Arabic or Muslim name? Are you a citizen of some country known for terrorist inculcation? (I don't mean the usual suspects -- I also mean Britain.) What is your religious beliefs, if any? Who are your friends?
But we will not see these practices in these United States. "Privacy issues." "Civil rights." "Overly intrusive." But the real issue is the manpower and cost it would take to provide real security for the US air transportation system, which is magnitudes greater than the passenger totals of a single small country's single international airport. Instead we have an understaffed TSA putting passengers through a charade of meaningless procedures which do not actually provide security, but rather dispenses a psychological calming effect to the travelling public.
Rather than ask a question or use professional profiling techniques, the air transportation system responds with palliative demonstrations of faux dynamic response to a heightened sense of insecurity. We now have to sit in our seats without a blanket, have entertainment systems altered to disable GPS maps, time our bathroom trips so we don't spend too much time in the lavatory, and reduce our carry-on belongings. In other words, use the same stupid methods inaugurated in late 2001: subject everyone to ineffective "security measures" because no one will dare ask a passenger a question. This passive security system -- no forward questions, no profiling -- has failed again and again. Until there is a fundamental change in the way the TSA approaches air transportation security, we will never find a solution to the scourge of our modern, hate-filled times.
What a joke.
My first year using an iPhone: Favorite Apps
As 2009 rolls away, I thought I'd take a moment to share with probably no one what I've come to enjoy most on my iPhone 3G, purchased in January of this year. In other words, yet another list of "my favorite apps" to clog up the Internet. In the past 11 months I've installed and removed dozens of apps, but these are the ones that I use almost every day.
First things first: you would be a fool not to jailbreak your phone. Only 10% of the customer base does so, but it is a no-brainer. There are easier and harder ways to do this, and if you are not tech savvy you might find it difficult. Always a struggle when Apple issues a software upgrade (so resist the temptation to upgrade your phone's software whenever the opportunity arises - wait until DevTeam gives the all clear), but the JB community has managed to keep up so far.
If you are already running iPhone OS 3.1.2 and have a Windows PC, here are clear instructions for jailbreaking your phone, from Redmond Pie, a great site by Taimur Asad, a student at Bahria University in Pakistan.
Having said that, here is what I have found to be my everyday essentials (just Google for more info):
1. (JB) OpenHebrew3. Made by Tom Zickel, an undergrad at the Technion, it is the perfect way to make an iPhone handle Hebrew, long before the iPhone was introduced (just this month) to the Israeli market. Still the best.
2. (JB) Ultrasn0w. This is already a bit outdated, but it is how I achieve "unlock" status on my slightly dated baseband. Be careful here! If your baseband has been updated along with 3.1.2, you might not be able to use this trick. Instead you will need something called (JB) Blacksn0w. Unlocks the phone so you can pop in a GSM chip from any provider. Most local telcoms sell pay-as-you go chips. Essential for international travel and getting cheap local rates. OK, I don't use this every day, but whenever I am overseas, it is essential.
3. ($) News Feed Elite. A great aggregator of news sources, very customizable.
4. Skype. Only works out of the box in Wifi environments, but with (JB) VoIPover3G will work in 3G-land also.
5. ($$$) Slingplayer. $40 well spent. Same as Skype, designed by AT&T to work only in Wifi, but with (JB) VoIPover3G will work under 3G. Of course, you need a SlingBox connected to your cable box at home. But once you have it all set up, watch your home TV ANYWHERE!
6. (JB) VoIPover3G. Requires going into the guts of the phone with SSH (abbreviation for Secure SHell; get [JB] OpenSSH), but it damn works!
7. ($) Tweetie. Best twitter app I've come across.
8. ($) WhiteNoise. Great way to go to sleep. Pick your sound, from crickets to waves on the beach to white noise. Also a free lite version, less sounds.
9. (JB) Backgrounder. Allows apps to run in the background. Combined with (JB) ProSwitcher and you have a Palm-Pre style quick application jumper. Can be a real battery drainer if you aren't careful.
10. ($$) WorldMate Gold. Expensive but useful way to keep track of all your trips, flights, hotels, car rentals.
11. Shazam. What the hell is that song? Run this app while the music is playing, and it will go out and get you all the details.
12. ($) Missile Command. Favorite game from grad school, rendered nicely.
13. ($) HebrewBible. The whole Hebrew Tanakh, searchable. Also includes Siddur.
14. ($) TopDictionaries Hebrew<->English Translator. $10, but the best dictionary out there. Uses its own keyboard inside the app.
15. Wikipanion. Nice gateway into Wikipedia. Great way to settle disagreements about facts.
16. ($) PocketTouch. $.99. Nice gesture-based way to flip through songs. Great in the car or (I am told) while exercising. It was better as a JB app, but the developer went legit.
17. Sportacular. Great way to stay current on sports scores, pushes game updates.
18. (JB) BossPrefs and (JB) SBSettings. Install in that order. Great way to gain control of the phone's settings quickly.
First things first: you would be a fool not to jailbreak your phone. Only 10% of the customer base does so, but it is a no-brainer. There are easier and harder ways to do this, and if you are not tech savvy you might find it difficult. Always a struggle when Apple issues a software upgrade (so resist the temptation to upgrade your phone's software whenever the opportunity arises - wait until DevTeam gives the all clear), but the JB community has managed to keep up so far.
If you are already running iPhone OS 3.1.2 and have a Windows PC, here are clear instructions for jailbreaking your phone, from Redmond Pie, a great site by Taimur Asad, a student at Bahria University in Pakistan.
Having said that, here is what I have found to be my everyday essentials (just Google for more info):
1. (JB) OpenHebrew3. Made by Tom Zickel, an undergrad at the Technion, it is the perfect way to make an iPhone handle Hebrew, long before the iPhone was introduced (just this month) to the Israeli market. Still the best.
2. (JB) Ultrasn0w. This is already a bit outdated, but it is how I achieve "unlock" status on my slightly dated baseband. Be careful here! If your baseband has been updated along with 3.1.2, you might not be able to use this trick. Instead you will need something called (JB) Blacksn0w. Unlocks the phone so you can pop in a GSM chip from any provider. Most local telcoms sell pay-as-you go chips. Essential for international travel and getting cheap local rates. OK, I don't use this every day, but whenever I am overseas, it is essential.
3. ($) News Feed Elite. A great aggregator of news sources, very customizable.
4. Skype. Only works out of the box in Wifi environments, but with (JB) VoIPover3G will work in 3G-land also.
5. ($$$) Slingplayer. $40 well spent. Same as Skype, designed by AT&T to work only in Wifi, but with (JB) VoIPover3G will work under 3G. Of course, you need a SlingBox connected to your cable box at home. But once you have it all set up, watch your home TV ANYWHERE!
6. (JB) VoIPover3G. Requires going into the guts of the phone with SSH (abbreviation for Secure SHell; get [JB] OpenSSH), but it damn works!
7. ($) Tweetie. Best twitter app I've come across.
8. ($) WhiteNoise. Great way to go to sleep. Pick your sound, from crickets to waves on the beach to white noise. Also a free lite version, less sounds.
9. (JB) Backgrounder. Allows apps to run in the background. Combined with (JB) ProSwitcher and you have a Palm-Pre style quick application jumper. Can be a real battery drainer if you aren't careful.
10. ($$) WorldMate Gold. Expensive but useful way to keep track of all your trips, flights, hotels, car rentals.
11. Shazam. What the hell is that song? Run this app while the music is playing, and it will go out and get you all the details.
12. ($) Missile Command. Favorite game from grad school, rendered nicely.
13. ($) HebrewBible. The whole Hebrew Tanakh, searchable. Also includes Siddur.
14. ($) TopDictionaries Hebrew<->English Translator. $10, but the best dictionary out there. Uses its own keyboard inside the app.
15. Wikipanion. Nice gateway into Wikipedia. Great way to settle disagreements about facts.
16. ($) PocketTouch. $.99. Nice gesture-based way to flip through songs. Great in the car or (I am told) while exercising. It was better as a JB app, but the developer went legit.
17. Sportacular. Great way to stay current on sports scores, pushes game updates.
18. (JB) BossPrefs and (JB) SBSettings. Install in that order. Great way to gain control of the phone's settings quickly.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
India at the White House
It's been really interesting to follow the media coverage of the security breach that occurred last night at the first White House State Dinner of the Obama administration. Two reality-TV wannabes walked through a Secret Service security checkpoint and had their pictures taken with Katie Couric, Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, and the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden. I kid you not. The couple - who are being looked at by a production company for a new Bravo-TV series "The Real Housewives of Washigton, DC" - even posted their pictures on Facebook! The story is dominating the American media tonight, but one is hard pressed to find more than a single mention of this embarrassing diplomatic and security Keystone Kops amateurism in all of the Indian media. What an international embarrassment!
CNN yesterday made a big deal of the fact that Jennifer Hudson would be performing a quartet of "American standards." Ho hum. Of far greater importance was that A. R. Rahman performed (he too was photographed in a joint shoot with the party crashers). For Harold & Kumar fans, our old onscreen stoner buddy Kal Penn was "in the House." Jai Ho!
CNN yesterday made a big deal of the fact that Jennifer Hudson would be performing a quartet of "American standards." Ho hum. Of far greater importance was that A. R. Rahman performed (he too was photographed in a joint shoot with the party crashers). For Harold & Kumar fans, our old onscreen stoner buddy Kal Penn was "in the House." Jai Ho!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Bad rabbis
Take a look at the article I wrote, just published in my colleague Silk's Religion in the News. The article is entitled "Airing the Syrian Laundry."
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