USA

By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California–Years ago we were regaled with a “wardrobe incident”  on TV : a female performer “inadvertently” uncovered her breast. Days ago, a similar kind of incident occurred. It was a  “mike incident” (microphone kept on while speakers thought it was off) , showing the president of the United States whispering to the president

By David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The brilliance of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Prince Waleed and their clade really impresses me.  Twenty years ago, they were subsidizing Rush Limbaugh and the neoconservatives to spread what’s become the core notion of today’s right. (Though it also crops up on the far-left!) The notion that assertions can trump facts.

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– As everyone knows, Mike Wallace, son of Friedan Wallik, he of the Old Country, was a mensch. He was also a tough-talking TV reporter and an investigative sleuth who never gave up until he found what he wanted.  The Brookline, Massachusetts boy who made good in America, died recently

  By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — As George Zimmerman disappears now into the legal wilderness of white complicity and police reticence, and good people in Tulsa lay down their dead into the crypt of black marginality, this white man wonders how frightful it must still be to a black male in America. Friends

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Passover is the best gift we ever gave to the world; nobody who was ever a human being could turn down its message of freedom, its transformation of the taste of tears into the wine of hope, its view of the leaves of parsley as the springtime of

By Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS—He discovered something within himself to elevate his hard, quick journey (some say it was his deep love of the Gospel) and his uncommon vision.  In truth, Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Mike King) lived a short, brutal life, filled with prison stays, bouts of depression, fear, and threats.  Yet he