"Israel is on the verge of losing Turkey's friendship"

That's what Turkish Consul General R. Hakan Tekin told me in our conversation last week. Check out more from him here.

Disaster is the mother of comic invention

This is absolutely amazing.

Published: Q&A with Peter Beinart in Jewish Journal

I recently had the chance to talk with Peter Beinart, the writer whose recent essay in The New York Review of Books ("The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment") has taken the Jewish blogosphere by storm. My conversation was published in the most recent issue of the Jewish Journal. (And, since good things come in threes, I had two other articles in the same issue--though these were decidedly more community-based stories.)

With the promise of more to come.