With so much nonsense written about the Israeli elections, these seem two of the best analyses, and they call to mind Goldberg's line about Yesh Atid: "…such a Jewish name."'There is a Future.' Optimistic, but threaded with melancholy." News and Opinion

If you focus too much on the mostly symbolic (and highly appropriate) recognition of groups too long marginalized, you miss the main point.  

I know it's supposed to be night music, but it just seems like a Doc Pomus morning.

I'm not sure each and every provision of the new gun law is necessary (NYS already has really high mandatory penalties for committing a crime while in possession of a firearm), a I’m also not sure whether every provision meets constitutional muster (though there are no obvious atrocities like sing

Last month, I had a few things to say about the proposed City Council reapportionment plan and how it relates to Hasidic Williamsburg and other communities in the greater northwest portion of Brooklyn. Among the things I said was:

Wishful Thinking Department:

My recent piece on how City Council redistricting is playing out in Hasidic Williamsburg, follow-up News and Opinion

Not only is Walmart selling assault weapons, but they're selling assault weapons made in China with non-union slave labor!

I once noted that it was perhaps unfair some folks are judged by a single moment in their long lives. In that vein, I went onto predict that when Rabbi Abraham Hecht died, his Times obit would say "called for Rabin's Assassination."