New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, in his colorful article in Annals of Business, “Not Quite Cricket,� takes you inside the world of Robert Allen Stanford Antigua's Cricket Magnate and $8 billion Ponzi Scam artist - or as we like to call him, the answer to the question, What would the difference ...

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is a Jew. Rush's Conservative Gentile persona is a successful act that has earned him record multimillion dollar contracts in the radio business. Rush's real name is Ronald Levy. He was born on the upper West Side of Manhattan. His father was a dermatologist and his mother a junio...

We get letters with blogworthy and insightful suggestions so here are the best guest submissions received yesterday... in honor of the holiday...a real megillah. Henry sends this from the Atlantic which he notes is an insightful analysis--we agree... How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic...

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Great pun, "A streetcar none desire" in the WSJ article, though we cannot vouch that WSJ invented it. And the story is simple. They are building a light rail in Jerusalem and a lot of Jews and Arabs agree and oppose the change. Man bites dog. It is news. See an article, a map showing how the tram li...

We ordinarily are not readers of Jewlicious blog so you may have to forgive us for thinking this ironic. An anonymous poster "themiddle" unleashed today a tirade against Raphael Golb for what? For, among other things, for anonymous posting! Just to be clear, we don't approve at all of what Golb is a...

Yes and no. According to the Times, the young conservative is being brought up as a Christian. So no, he is not Jewish by religion. But also according to the Times, Jonathan Krohn's mother was Jewish before she converted to Christianity. According to Jewish law, Jonathan is a Jew. Appropriately, the...

Frank Rich in the Times is on the top of his game this week . He gives us a script summary for America for the next eight years: We need to restore America's values after the long orgy of vulgar materialism. In the course of Rich's sermon he mentions the newly impoverished nobel laureate Elie Wiesel...

The arrest of Raphael Golb is part of a complex scandal that is destined to attract additional headlines and attention because it involves several hot-button newsworthy story elements: a tale of the misuse of the Internet using false identities for a personal vendetta an account of strange academic ...

This sad Times story must be incorrect. If indeed Schiffman discovered Golb was impersonating him, I am sure that he would have called Golb and his father and demanded that he stop the charade. That's how things are done within a civilized community. The Times reports that Schiffman went to the dist...