Tag Archives: Tommy Lapid

rapid lapid: end of the mexican standoff

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Dave

Yet, again a new Israeli leader emerges.A brand new shiny? A flash in the pan love affair in US media with the TV celebrity. This is not the same as the favorable profiles of Netanyahu when he first emerged as … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Hanin Zoabi, Jodi Rudoren, M.C. Escher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ono Academic College, Professor Brown Israel Democracy Institute, Tommy Lapid, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party, Zahava Gal-On | Leave a comment

good men in a storm?…raising canaan

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Dave

It was believed that secular Zionism of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century was conceived to offer something distinct from the assimilationist currents that the Enlightenment and secular humanism was conceptually formulated to bring about. It was a ruse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anna Porter, Ben Hecht, Benjamin Halevi, Edwin Black, eichmann trial, Francisco Gil-White, Francois Genoud, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Haavara Agreement, Hannah Arendt, jabotinsky, Joel Brand, Malchiel Greenwald, Meir Dagan, Meretz Party, Moshe Sharett, Norman Finkelstein, Rudolf Kastner, Rudolf Kasztner, Shinui Party, Tommy Lapid, uri avnery, Yair Lapid | Leave a comment

bad taste blindfold test

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

A strange paradigm. Where there are more synagogues looted, desecrated and burned in the Land of Israel than in the entire diaspora combined. Where the polemics of anti-Judaism are considered a rite of passage and armchair sport for the loose-lipped … Continue reading →