Clinton Confirmation Hearings: Good or Bad?

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, with a pretty set of photographs chronicling Jewish/black relations in this country to celebrate the inauguration of our 44th president. Darn, what's his name again? The important news of the day involves yesterday's confirmation hearings of Hillary Clinton for Secratary of State.  Clinton took the opportunity to prepare the country for a new kind of State Department that would have a renewed focus on diplomacy and direct negotiation with Iran and other previously untouchable rogue states; thereby signaling a break from the kind of shunning politics the Condoleeza Rice State Department...

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Yeesh. A radical Muslim leader threatened to have Paul McCartney killed on his upcoming trip to Israel. Come on. His solo albums aren't that bad. Finally. We've defined a "Chassidishe tuna beigel." Yael Larer is conflicted about his work translating recently deceased Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish's poems into Hebrew. "There is a wine revolution going on" in Israel right now. Sounds good to me. I guess I no longer have to buy Israeli wines just to feel like I'm supporting the homeland. Now, who's got an opener? Germany's federal archive made a list of some 600,000 Jews who were harmed by Nazis. The hippest hebrew magazine, Heeb, has its super hip fall music preview out. Did I mention how hip it is? 900 rabbis were on a conference call with Barack Obama the other...

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