The Huffington Post, September 13, 2009. “Judas Reconsidered — Betrayal: Should We Hate Judas Iscariot”? These are the shout lines given the most recent article in the New Yorkermagazine (8/3/09) on the Gospel of Judas by Joan Acocella (credentials unknown, though her specialty has mostly been dance), which burst upon the scene in 2006 via a […]

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The Huffington Post, December 19, 2007. The New York Times is at work again and the “demonization” of Judas Iscariot is once more in play. The best example of this is the appearance at the beginning of the month of an op-ed piece, “Gospel Truth” by Prof. April DeConick of Rice University (The New York Times, 12/1/07). In […]

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The Jerusalem Post, September 16, 2007. There is an old proverb known to most everyone: “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.” Unfortunately the Israelis “sowed the wind” in 1967, but not in the way most people think. Now they are, indeed, “reaping the whirlwind” but, once again, not in the way the screaming or agenda-driven […]

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The Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2007. Christiane Amanpour in her “God’s Warriors: The Jews” broadcast on CNN this weekend—aside from giving voice to as many anti-Israel and anti-“settlement” critics as one might imagine and almost no “Jewish” (really?) God’s Warriors, except to portray them in the most trivialized manner – must have used the term […]

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The Huffington Post, March 8, 2007. The latest ‘discovery’ of the so-called ‘Jesus Tomb’ or ‘Jesus Cave’ is so preposterous that it has to be laughed out of court. For starters one must say that one must be glad that ossuaries of this kind in Israel are finally getting the publicity they deserve and that […]

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The Huffington Post, January 23, 2006. ‘Trial Balloons’ to rehabilitate ‘Judas Iscariot’ (evidently emanating from Vatican ‘sources’) are presently in the news with predictable outcries from both ‘the Right’ and ‘the Left.’ While this kind of proposal is all to the good — regardless of the impact it might have on one’s ‘Faith’ — and, […]

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January 18, 2006. Robert Fisk (“Telling it like it isn’t,” Los Angeles Times, 12/27/05) must be living in “cloud cuckoo-land.” He objects to alleged pro-Jewish and what he seems to imply as “pro-Israel” or “pro-Zionist” bias in U. S. newspapers. He wants the West Bank to be referred to as “Occupied Palestine” and objects to “Jewish” […]

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Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2002. James, the brother of Jesus, was so well known and important as a Jerusalem religious leader, according to 1st century sources, that taking the brother relationship seriously was perhaps the best confirmation that there ever was a historical Jesus. Put another way, it was not whether Jesus had a brother, […]

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Jewish Forward, 1992 New Borders The Dismemberment of Iraq

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