By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="322" caption="European delegates walk out during Ahmadinejad's speech (via JTA)"][/caption] Well, it's not as if the United Nations Durban II conference against racism was ever going to avoid controversy. The primary storyline going into the conference was the contentious--if not by any...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD3P99bxwXg] As you can see in the video above, President Barack Obama gave his first television interview yesterday, to Dubai station Al-Arabiya. The full transcript can be found here. ...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler President Barack Obama (still sounds so new, doesn't it?) announced that he has chosen former Senator George Mitchell to be his special emissary to the Middle East. Mitchell is a veteran negotiator, most known for an agreement he brokered in Northern Ireland, and...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler First of all, hello! We at Moment and ITM hope you had a lovely holiday season. Here's to a beautiful 2009! (Or at least one without World War 3 and total economic meltdown.) In case you haven't seen it, our January/February issue is out,...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler According to data based on precincts "with High-Concentration Of Orthodox Jewish Voters," Orthodox Jews were not only unafraid of Barack Obama, some communities voted for him in larger numbers than they did for John Kerry in 2004. Shmuel Rosner blogs (and has a nice...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1wse5_MeT8] In the aftermath of the election and an entirely new incoming administration, the Republican and Democratic parties have shuffled their rosters to prepare for the next Congress. As a result, some Jewish members have been promoted and now hold top positions. This week, representatives...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Well, it's been a few weeks now since Barack Obama was elected, and preliminary indications do not point to a massive restructuring of the fundamental American traditions (besides the ones that said only white people should be president). No, Obama has not nominated...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Not bad for my first go, eh? Check out churchsigngenerator.com for nonstop fun. Click "more" to see another try from the other perspective. (HT: Randy Shiner) ...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler Over at the Islam's Advance blog, writer Wajahat Ali has a post about how Barack Obama and the various foreign policy decisions he will inherit from the current administration are viewed across the Muslim world. Although the post goes into the Wars in...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler The jokes are good, but let's hope Obama's plan for solving the fiscal crisis is better than his comic timing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMTm_hYOS3Y&feature=related] ...