by Adam | Wednesday 25 April 2012
This is definitely the most fun I've ever had reporting on a story. New Orleans, Carnival, parades, culture, anarchy, sex, drugs, and violence. For The Atlantic: The parade reached its endpoint, which was a warehouse-turned-event-space on the corner of Piety...
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by Adam | Friday 16 March 2012
My most recent article for Tablet, about a group of non-Israeli IDF vets, is up. OMG check it out here! Some of the members also interact with Israeli-born IDF veterans who have since moved stateside—but again, their experiences are not...
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by Adam | Wednesday 29 February 2012
Folks, I've got a piece in Salon today about the MPAA's decision to give an R rating to a documentary about teenage bullying because of the language used by the bullies. “I believe we’re at a tipping point moment when...
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by Adam | Friday 6 January 2012
Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic was kind enough to cede a little bit of real estate on his blog for me to opine about the specter of binationalism, which is staring down Israel with a particular relentlessness. Here it is:...
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by Adam | Friday 16 December 2011
My latest for Tablet about the political orthodoxy at Hebrew Union College. With this, I firmly put to death the dreams my mother had about my becoming a rabbi. Sorry marm. The division between the old guard and at least...
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by Adam | Friday 18 November 2011
My latest up at Tablet is a profile of Ean Seeb, who is (amazingly) both a marijuana dispensary owner and a machar in the Denver Jewish community. Read here: Seeb is a third-generation Jewish Denver native. Ean, his first name,...
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by Adam | Sunday 13 November 2011
Real deal recipes from politicians via The Awl: Featuring: JFK's WAFFLES, HUMPHREY BEEF SOUP...
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by Adam | Wednesday 9 November 2011
Thrilled to post a link to my first piece for the Atlantic. It's a dispatch from the medical marijuana harvest in Oregon. Read it fools. At High Hopes, the knit is tight. The farm hosts a fantasy football league for...
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by Adam | Saturday 5 November 2011
Jeff Goldberg, my new friend/frequent object of idol worship has written a devastating article about America's ally Pakistan, its nukes, and our future. It's a long read and a worthy read, so read....
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by Adam | Friday 7 October 2011
Or at least loves my most recent article. Get your mind out of the gutter. I was honored to have my Occupy Wall Street dispatch featured on Andrew Sullivan's blog on the Daily Beast, which you can check out right...
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by Adam | Saturday 24 September 2011
I've got a few new things to share up on Tablet's website. First things first, my very first (and probably last) podcast is up. In it, I interview Nathan Thrall who is the Middle East analyst for the International Crisis...
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by Adam | Saturday 10 September 2011
Here is my (glancing) 9/11 piece on Hakeem Olajuwon and moderate Islam, which I wrote for Tablet. We spent humid afternoons in our driveways imitating Hakeem the Dream’s signature move. Called the Dream Shake, the maneuver was famous for freezing...
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by Adam | Friday 29 July 2011
Extraordinarily honored to have an op-ed running in Haaretz today. It's currently trending on the front page. Check it out! For the many whose priorities have shifted away from Israel, now is the time to focus on specific issues. The...
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by Adam | Wednesday 27 July 2011
From the (always thrilling) Times obit section today. Mr. Gwirtzman liked to tell the story of how as a young operative in the 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign he was asked by Mr. Sorensen to find out how many Catholics had...
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by Adam | Sunday 26 June 2011
wrote an extremely moving essay in this week's NYTimes Magazine about his life as an undocumented immigrant. He also has a Pulitzer Prize and is risking deportation by writing the article. Very much worth your time....
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by Adam | Sunday 26 June 2011
An uncharacteristically serious Jon Stewart sits down with Fox News and essentially diagnoses the ills of mainstream media and partisan media while deconstructing Fox News' obsession with him...all while being interviewed by a somewhat hostile Chris Wallace. It's really your...
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by Adam | Monday 2 May 2011
My piece on the Huffington Post today happens to be making some waves. Catch it while it's lukewarm. For a while it all shouted before the bagpipes sounding "Amazing Grace" brought about a silence. We weren't there to celebrate the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 5 April 2011
myself (again) on a political situation about which I am probably still unqualified to make serious commentary...some bad news out of Jenin this week featured the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian actor and activist, who was one of the...
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by Adam | Thursday 31 March 2011
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) that is. Check out his zingers from last night....
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by Adam | Wednesday 23 March 2011
It's a very strange world these days....
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by Adam | Sunday 20 March 2011
The cover of this week's New Yorker is devastating....
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by Adam | Saturday 12 March 2011
Leon Wieseltier, our (imaginary) favorite rumpled grandfather, gets real with Obama about why he should do more about Libya. The comment section does a masterful job of telling Leon to chill. Always fun to see smart people wig out....
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by Adam | Wednesday 16 February 2011
I'm back on my soapbox over at The Huffington Post. Enjoy. Our arrangement in the Middle East has, until now, been based on the idea that our foreign policy has to be realistic. But what's both evident and realistic now...
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by Adam | Saturday 29 January 2011
TNR (or The New Republic), which is just one small letter away from the greatness of TFR, always has compelling work about the world in which we live. Leon Wieseltier writes about how one alarming aspect of the riots in...
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by Adam | Thursday 13 January 2011
This was part of the New York Times overwrought look back at 2010, which sat on my couch under a pile of papers until yesterday. I'm glad I didn't just toss it because Ron Leshem (author of Beauford) wrote this...
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by Adam | Thursday 6 January 2011
Friends, Moment Magazine does great work, I'm proud to have a piece up on the blog for them. Among a number of things, it's about the community of African refugees who flee genocide and resettle in Israel. I hope you...
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by Adam | Tuesday 28 December 2010
Those who were *ahem* critical of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore as being a messageless medium might be thrilled to read this article in the NY Times about the success of Stewart and The Daily Show to bring the 9/11...
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by Adam | Monday 29 November 2010
, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, has some compelling words for a Western audience. We need to support this guy. It's the best hope we're going to get in this generation. Often, people come to the conclusion that...
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by Adam | Friday 5 November 2010
My most recent contribution to HuffPo: Fifteen years after Rabin, the Palestinian Authority, led by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas, has finally passed its Altalena moment. The West Bank, which for over four decades had been a...
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by Adam | Monday 1 November 2010
From my HuffPo piece on the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear: They arrived on buses from nearby city centers and faraway small towns. There was Brooklyn and Philadelphia, but there was also Boise and Purdue. They flew in from...
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by Adam | Saturday 23 October 2010
Some damning, devastating, very upsetting news about humanitarian aid. NPR on Haiti. The New Yorker on the history and shortcomings of aid....
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by Adam | Friday 15 October 2010
by Adam | Sunday 10 October 2010
Dear TFR Readers: I've started my new life as a Huffington Post blogger. Do check out my first piece here. Comment, repost, mention how handsome my headshot is. All traffic helps. Fear not, I will continue to flood this site...
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by Adam | Thursday 23 September 2010
Shoutout to TFR friend Paul for sending this little nugget my way:...
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by Adam | Friday 10 September 2010
Let your own internal detection system gauge the merits of this provocation by the late David Foster Wallace: Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11...
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by Adam | Sunday 22 August 2010
Friends, I am off stealing yard signs for the heated 'ag commish' race in Alabama. If there's not an exciting story there, I promise I will write you soon about Turkey and Dubai. In the meantime, enjoy this and pray...
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by Adam | Friday 13 August 2010
I am really sad I wasn't in New York when Mayor Bloomberg gave his speech in eloquent defense of the proposed mosque and community center near the World Trade Center site. If you haven't been following, most New Yorkers are...
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by Adam | Friday 6 August 2010
The day’s end came while we were gunning back to Ramallah. Along with the wrenching of the van—with the same erratic gusto as before (substituting techno music for Koran verses)—I felt enervated and unsettled by the intensity of the...
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 July 2010
TFR Shoutout:Daniella Cheslow, journalist nonpareil, who accompanied me to Jenin. I boarded the van from Jerusalem to Ramallah a little after 7:00 in the morning, it was cold in a way I hadn’t felt in a long time which is...
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by Adam | Monday 26 July 2010
A couple articles of mine were in the Jerusalem Post today. The first piece is about how one of President Obama's friends from his days in Chicago (and a small focal point in the 2008 campaign) is now helping arrange...
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by Adam | Thursday 15 July 2010
The JTA is now reporting that the Queen of Jordan did not have Hebrew book offers to reject and so she is not a big, thin hypocrite, but rather a hot, regal mensch. Here's the grain of salt, the kind...
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by Adam | Wednesday 14 July 2010
Meduza (pl. meduzot) are commonly known in English as jellyfish, jellyfishes, aborted octopi, or little motherfuckers. Despite its misleading benevolence, I’ve always enjoyed the idea behind the name jellyfish: they are JELatinous fish (I kid), but this appreciation was...
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by Adam | Thursday 1 July 2010
Author's Note: I'm becoming ever-familiar with the failings of the blogger/traveler balance. I've had all of 30 minutes of internet access this week and only a few hours to write so what you're reading is an early draft of something...
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by Adam | Wednesday 12 May 2010
Jeffrey Goldberg making good points about important things....
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 April 2010
Say that one five times fast. I (almost) always like Jeffrey Goldberg's take on things. He's smart and funny and knows what's really worth kerfuffling about. Like this Jim Jones' joke. And how it's stupid to be angry about it....
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by Adam | Monday 19 April 2010
I found this in the New York Times just a few minutes ago. It's essentially the original copy from 2001 of the xerox argument Elie Wiesel recently made in papers across America. There are differences though. This older one is...
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by Adam | Monday 29 March 2010
Spend three minutes with Bradley Burston over at Haaretz for a poignant treat....
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by Adam | Saturday 27 March 2010
If you haven't seen this, wait until about 45 seconds in. Mindblowing shit....
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by Adam | Monday 22 March 2010
“I grew up a Jew in New York City,” Najla Saïd declares early in her autobiographical one-woman play “Palestine.” Saïd describes herself as a Semitic-looking girl who was raised on the Upper West Side in a politically left-leaning apartment...
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by Adam | Wednesday 24 February 2010
Rarely does a blogger (or, more accurately, an occasional disseminator of nominally interesting online written matter) get to do what I am about to do. (Hold tight.) Background: Bloggers are the emblem of what's wrong with Western culture; a writer...
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by Adam | Monday 22 February 2010
Read Evan Bayh's op-ed piece in the New York Times about how he's leaving the Senate because it doesn't work anymore. Of course, he makes some wonderful, meaningful points about government dysfunction, but I'm not sure resigning is the answer....
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by Adam | Thursday 11 February 2010
Take half an hour or however long it takes you to read one of those sprawling New Yorker articles (it actually takes me weeks to finish one issue) and settle yourself into Jane Mayer's excellent piece about U.S. General Attorney...
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by Adam | Thursday 21 January 2010
I'm a good Dem, but I never liked John Edwards. Not in 2008. Not even in 2004. And especially not now....
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by Adam | Sunday 11 October 2009
I'm sure someone beat Thomas Friedman to the punch on this one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. There is something kind of grating about the way he writes though. Am I imagining it?...
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by Adam | Thursday 11 June 2009
If I can joke about being able to walk into a sporting goods store in Houston, Texas, and walk out with ammunition for all kinds of guns then I have no choice but to talk about the shooting at the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 10 June 2009
Some of the press has been commenting on a video filmed by Max Blumenthal, the genius political commentator who went around the most touristy stretch of bars and nightlife in Jerusalem to coerce some drunk American yeshiva kids and recent...
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by Adam | Sunday 31 May 2009
Found this article only mere hours before shuffling off to my big sister's wedding. While greater stability is on the march in Iraq these days, it seems that spurned Iraqi men have resorted to using IEDs [improvisational explosive devices] to...
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by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
For those behind the times...consider yourself lucky. Barack Obama's first 100 days....
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by Adam | Monday 20 April 2009
I've enjoyed staying quiet so far as discursive plots against the Jews go, but this situation is something that really disquiets me. The walkout was impressive, but for the planets to align for this speech at this conference on this...
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by Adam | Thursday 12 March 2009
Since college, I've been trying my absolute best to quell the part of me that typifies a Reactionary Jew, such a person who shouts at the wind and lives with perpetual high blood pressure because of the world's sinister movements...
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by Adam | Tuesday 24 February 2009
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Save New York State's TV and Film Tax Credits I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a...
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by Adam | Friday 23 January 2009
In the lead up to the New World, I took my show on the road. First, in the small revolution, I quit my job. I cleaned the bar one last time, I walked out in the middle of the...
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by Adam | Monday 5 January 2009
Why I'm Not Blogging More About Gaza by Jeffrey Goldberg Andrew Sullivan just asked me (live, not on e-mail; bloggers at the Atlantic actually talk to each other) why I haven't been posting more on Gaza. The simple answer is...
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by Adam | Friday 2 January 2009
Here's an update from Gaza...from where I am not reporting....I have not boarded a plane, I have not hopped on a train....I will be staying right here in New York where its cold and the violence is much more...
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by Adam | Monday 15 December 2008
by Adam | Sunday 12 October 2008
I sent this clip to a friend in Dubai to put on display the craziness of the American campaign trail, especially as Barack Obama (by all empirical impressions) seems to be pulling away with the election. The woman in...
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by Adam | Wednesday 13 August 2008
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by Adam | Tuesday 6 May 2008
It’s 12:56 A.M. on the seis of Mayo which is to say the evening didn’t end as surreptitiously as nights do where a tequila tradition prevails. My friend works for the city (not just any city, but New York) and...
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by Adam | Thursday 17 April 2008
The pigeonholing, Kerry(ing) of Barack Obama: It just may work too....
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by Adam | Sunday 24 February 2008
The subject of Mr. McCain’s age has come up, gingerly, on the campaign trail. When one of Mike Huckabee’s biggest supporters, Chuck Norris, 67, said after the South Carolina primary that he did not think Mr. McCain would have “the...
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by Adam | Friday 16 November 2007
A not-so-brief follow-up to my endorsement posting...I do have to say that even after going out late last night, I managed to watch all two hours of the Democratic debate in the wee hours of the morning without falling...
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by Adam | Sunday 11 November 2007
NEW YORK - In a move designed to counter the amount of voters impacted by Pat Robertson's recent endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for President in the upcoming 2008 election, Adam Chandler, magnate of the new media and proprietor of trustfundreporting.com,...
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by Adam | Tuesday 25 September 2007
by Adam | Friday 24 August 2007
I am at an artists' enclave in the South of France, where as a community, you'd figure there'd be some love. (And don't get me wrong there has been some). Unfortunately, somebody's been drinking some haterade. And anti-American haterade at...
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by Adam | Friday 15 June 2007
This is how I look when I field phone calls from my father. A resident of a Hamas-dominated neighborhood, identifying himself only as Yousef for fear of reprisal by his neighbors, said Gazans would always back the winner, regardless...
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by Adam | Wednesday 6 June 2007
One of my best friends in the world decided to make the four-hour trek to New York, taking the Chinatown bus (from Chinatown DC to Chinatown Manhattan) at 2:30 in the morning. She arrived at 5:50 A.M. and I...
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by Adam | Monday 7 May 2007
Here's a little gem for your Monday morning, sent with love from Fox News of all places. They are reporting about Farfur the lovable little mouse who entertains Palestinian children on Hamas television (Al-Aqsa Television). He sings, he dances, he...
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by Adam | Friday 20 April 2007
I suppose it's blase to beat up on anyone in this administration these days, but honestly, this was too much. Since today is National Apathy Day (chemically, at least), I wanted to posit some kind of passing/flailing/stabbing moral inquisition...
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by Adam | Monday 9 April 2007
As one small blog in an ocean of 70 million, I found something decidedly cute about this morning's article in the New York Times about blogger civility. To be truthful, I didn't read the whole thing, I got really...
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by Adam | Monday 27 November 2006
Innocuous vanity plates or symptom of a larger malady? Read on to find out. In the five minutes after I depart Houston Hobby airport in my mother's semi-old silver Volvo, I encounter the billboard of the ages. I was shocked...
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