Category: News and Opinion

The Gateway (Not Every Story is About The Jews, It Just Seems That Way Edition)

|

WHY AM I REMINDED OF ERNIE K-DOE? Strange, but this article supports two seemingly contradictory conclusions:

1) For many Israeli feminists, the “Rape by Deception case” has nothing to do with racism or Arabs, and those who condemn this conclusion as naive should remember that this is the nation that produced Moshe Katsav and Haim Ramon. The anger of Israel women anger is not without some good cause, and Jew of Arab, the bums are still males.

2) There is among some Israelis an almost Germanic desire for racial purity divorced from any mere religious belief, and far more insidious than the "Shiksas are for practice" admonitions of my great-grandmother (who, incidentally read the Forward everyday)

Conclusion by Stephen Stills: "nobody's right if everybody's wrong"

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

|

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

 

By Michael Boyajian

 

Ron Zacchi of Marriage Equality New York recently asked me to join up with Hudson Valley Out and About and distribute MENY cards to their members at a Bethel Woods concert featuring the Boston Pops and Idina Menzel Broadway star of Wicked and Rent.  Needless to say I jumped at the chance to see the famed Pops while helping the marriage equality movement on a splendid summer evening.

McMahon Gets the Full Nelson

|

"Congrats Gatey" read the comment from "Political Junkie," "You beat Politico.com by 5 hours."

Yes, in being the first to report that Congressman Mike McMahon’s re-election campaign had fired a staffer–spokeswoman Jennifer Nelson–who had compiled and circulated to a reporter a list of Jewish don0ors to the Campaign of one of McMahon’s Republican opponents–Michael Grimm, I’d even beaten Liz Benjamin by over an hour, while the Observer, which broke the original story, did not bother to note this development until the next morning.

Maggie Haberman’s story on Politico is more than a bit skeptical. She notes that the campaign’s Finance Director, who according to Nelson (a source of seemingly questionable credibility, if not sanity) assisted in compiling the list, "apparently is not being rebuked, but it is unlikely the compilation of "Jewish money" was either her or Nelson's brainchild…Nelson was the communications director, but she was not the brain trust of the campaign…”

How does she draw such a conclusion?

The implication is some sort of shadowy effort to exploit Jew hatred, or some sort of innate anti-Semitism among McMahon and/or his campaign staff.

Gianna: Peruvian Immigrant American Hero

|

Gianna:  Peruvian Immigrant American Hero

 

By Michael Boyajian

 

When Gianna was teenager twenty two years ago in her native Peru she knew one thing and that was she wanted to go to America to make something of herself.  Knowing no English she paid thousands of dollars to get to the U.S. knowing nothing of the risks involved like violent assault and rape.

You Heard it Here First: McMahon Fires Rogue Staffer

|

Congressman McMahon's campaign tells me that the staffer responsible for a press release outlining an opponent's receipt of "Jewish money" (primarily from the Kaballah community) was acting without authoriztion and has been fired.

Comparing this to last year's imbroglio in Council District 39, where a candidate in a similar situation denied responsibility, but refused to publicly rebuke the responsible party (and still has not done so), this extremely rapid response is a model of damage control (and maybe even accountability). McMahon Campaign Hits Grimm For Taking "Jewish Money" | The New York Observer www.observer.com

The Gateway (Amigos in All Languages, Boobernatorial Karaoke and Bad Things Come with Small Packages Edition) [Revised]

|

Great stuff on City Hall News' new State Senate blog. Although they are sometimes better on the raw facts than on analysis. In this article, we find out Isaac Sasson's challenge to Toby Stavisky is being run by Jay Golub, a Republican activist, which makes sense, since last year Sasson, after losing a Democratic primary for City Council, emerged as a key backer of victorious Republican Peter Koo.

Once again, State Senate Republicans have revived their strategy of running stealth Republicans as Democrats.

How does one say Amigo in Ladino? http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1329-repeat-candidate-sasson-to-self-finance-$1-million-for-stavisky-primary-race.html www.cityhallnews.com

　

Will Rangel Cut the Deal?

|

Congressman Rangel finds himself between what is said: “a rock and a hard place.”

In the twilight of his career, he is forced to make a decision that he does not want to make.

Having Known Rangel for a number of decades, and knowing how important his legacy is to him, every ounce of Rangel’s being is to fight the ethical charges all the way.

It wouldn’t be surprising if he took that route.

© Room Eight