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Category Archives: Jason Maoz
Tom Friedman Vs Israel
Jason Maoz writes: Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, proved once again last week that despite his non-stop insistence that he has Israel’s best interests at heart, he relishes nothing more than slinging mud at Israel and … Continue reading
Remembering Sidney Zion
Jason Maoz writes: Sidney Zion, who died earlier this month at age 75, didn’t start out to be a writer, and he might never have become one if not for the 1962-63 newspaper strike – the longest in the city’s … Continue reading
In Praise Of George Will
Jason Maoz writes in The Jewish Press: If George F. Will comes across to some as a starchy combination of ministerial and professorial, he can blame it on his genes: The longtime columnist is, after all, the grandson of a … Continue reading
Israel’s New York Times
Jason Maoz — the most underrated writer in the Jewish media — writes for The Jewish Press: It takes a time like this for the full fury of Israel’s leftists to erupt in the face of their own country and … Continue reading
Anti-Israel Columnist Charley Reese
Jason Maoz writes: Submitted for your amusement, a tale of two columnists, as different as it is humanly possible to be in their view of the Middle East. First, four quotes from the columnist who is second to … Continue reading
Horrid Generation
Jason Maoz writes for the Jewish Press: Dennis Prager, the sometimes controversial, always thought-provoking radio host and syndicated columnist, wrote a column last week on the legacy the baby boom generation has bequeathed to younger Americans. “We live in the … Continue reading
Media Memoirs
Jason Maoz writes the Media Monitor column for the Jewish Press: The Monitor’s recent listing of worthwhile books on the media brought in a number of interesting responses, with many readers sharing their own favorites – several of which probably … Continue reading
Presidential Politics And Jewish Priorities
Jason Maoz writes: With the possible exceptions of 1948 (when Truman kept a wary eye on the polls as he navigated the minefields of Palestinian partition) and 1976 (when fresh memories of Ford and Kissinger’s “reassessment” of American-Israeli relations, short-lived … Continue reading
Bibi Netanyahu – Israel’s Great Right Hope
Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: For not the first time in his political career, Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s Great Right Hope – a figure looked to with increasing longing by an electorate fed up with the blunders … Continue reading
Summer Media Reading
Editor Jason Maoz writes for The Jewish Press: The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986) by Richard Kluger: Massive, award-winning book tells the story of the newspaper that for decades ranked … Continue reading