Bad Rachel

A pair of Lebanese journalists from opposing sides of the Lebanon/Hizballah divide, on set recently at Hizballah’s Al Manar TV for a chat ab...

On Wieseltierian tears   Oh blithersome couturier of wordifactious spewage , Your loathsome predilection for effluxicating brewage ...

I’d like to congratulate my co-religionists on yet another job well-done.  We Jews have frequently enjoyed risking our own future in e...

Thus spake Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations (and once-upon-a-time Diplomatic  Advisor  to Olof Palme, the Swe...

Sneezy, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, and Sleepy find life as Egyptian parliamentarians in a post-Tahrir Square, post-Mubarak worl...

Here’s how it was, in his own felicitous words , back in the bad old days of America, before Barack Obama was elected president: “[I]n a lot...

“There is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence—none,” says Barack Obama, speaking of the slaughter last night ...

To my grandmothers of blessed memory, for their bounteous affection, their great good humor, their amused patience—and their baking To...

In the mountains the butchers come and go Talking of  boys  in native Pashto.   Or is it perfume from a burqa That tempts me fro...

Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not,/And upon the kingdoms that call not upon Thy name./For they have devour...