The White House says an official “misspoke” when he said the Obama administration would not allow the Goldstone report recommendations on Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war to reach the International Criminal Court.
In case you want more on this story, Jim Besser has a Q&A in the New York Jewish Week with Daniel Sokatch about Sokatch’s decision to leave the San Francisco Jewish federation for the New Israel Fund. What were the frustrations? In any big organization there are people who are resistant to change, just as […]
The John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation yesterday announced the recipients of its annual MacArthur “Genius” Grants, the renowned $500,000 stipends. Rob Eshman, the editor of the LA Jewish Journal has gone through the recipients and picked out the Jews on his “Bloggish” blog. Deborah Eisenberg, 63, a short-story writer, Beth Shapiro, 33, an evolutionary biologist […]
