Can you at least not spell sad Leon "WieseltHier"?? That'd be German for "weasels here."

We are enjoying such a sweet Wieseltier moment! Barry "Gooey" Gewen over at Paper Cuts metes out instant retribution: "Wieseltier knows how to spew vitriol, and the smoke that rises from the page can be fun for readers to inhale."

At least he sort of admits to inhaling.

I went on Fox to advocate for Sharia, and they made such fun of me.

I'm not sure that single-sentence summary is correct. He writes, "Spinoza, of course, would never have written so glowingly about Jewish law, and neither would Feldman, and neither would I." And also, "I do not want The New York Times to become the voice of moderate Judaism, or of any Judaism."

Which seems to be kind of the opposite. Of course, the piece itself is so numbingly dull that it's hard to say.

I thought the piece on "hipster" farmers was sort of cute. It didn't even call them assholes.

I'll read the New Republic as soon as I finish reviewing the Encyclopaedia Britannica for Maxim's.

What does the New Republic literary editor actually do, besides whine?

Nice one Pareene. Was wondering when the hipster farmers story would get a shout out here.

Ha! Gem of a post.

When will the New York Times finally be more accepting of the tribe? It's the last acceptable form of discrimination at the paper, I understand.

Just a little clarification...

Halacha, not Torah, is to Judaism what shariah is to Islam.