Culture

The return of the missing mosques

Almost five years ago, a reader alerted me to the banner on the website of Christians United for Israel. It featured a lovely photo of the Western Wall — but something was missing. The mosques atop the wall. David Brog, CUFI’s executive director, was at first incredulous — he thought I was mistaken, that the […]

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A Turkish test on Iran sanctions?

Recently passed U.S. sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank allow President Obama a degree of leeway in their application. Now, Turkey is reportedly about to put the president on the spot. Reuters reports: Turkey will seek a waiver from the United States to exempt its biggest refiner Tupras from new U.S. sanctions on institutions that deal […]

Bambi, the Zionist

Felix Salten, born Siegmund Salzmann, the man who gave the world (and Disney) Bambi was not only a Jew, but a Zionist. I had no idea until today, when I read it on the excellent Jewish travel and miscellany blog kept by my first boss in journalism, Esther Hecht: In 1925 Salten wrote a travel […]

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Jonah Hill scores with Dustin Hoffman’s daughter

Bloomberg goes Gaga

Songs of Wonder

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