I liked one of these a lot more than the other:
Wall Street Journal: To Tweet, Or Not to Tweet: How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable—at times—seem all the digital distractions of this world.
Washington Post: The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
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Re: David Harsanyi’s column on Jewish liberalism.
Living in Denver, and a Jew, I agree with your appraisal. I suppose the same is generally true of Liberal Jews throughout the U.S. However, I think it is also a matter of generation and location. Older Jews, like me, have often experienced anti-semitism. Especially if they lived in gentile neighborhoods. Many ghetto ( American Jewish neighborhoods) Jews, rich or poor, were insulated from this experience. Lucky for them, but they don’t understand the phenomenon. It’s something that happened in Germany but can’t touch them. After the world became informed of the Holocaust, American Jews have enjoyed a high degree of equal treatment and prosperity. Anti-semitism has not been terribly popular with the majority. So generations of American Jews were never called “dirty Jew?” However, anti-semitism is dormant. My point is that the weaker an Israel, the more enboldened the Jew haters right here. When liberal Jews, who have never visited Israel, talk about occupation, peace accords, etc., they have no idea what they are talking about, because they can’t imagine an outbreak of anti-semitism in their backyard. Maybe the Arabs have a beef with the Jews, but not good old Christian America. Give up the West Bank, Golan and move back a parallel or two and everything is cool. American Liberal Jewry is currently incapable of linking Muslim hatred with good old fashioned European Jew hate, let alone a resurgence of anti-semitism here in the U.S.
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