![]() Those calls reminded me that, more complex than many of the issues I faced in the press, and often more explosive, was the minefield of American Jewry.”Īlly: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide “The Israeli ambassador eating trief? In public? On Christmas?” I tried to defend myself-“I didn’t eat it, I eyed it”-but fruitlessly. “You should be ashamed of yourself!” they remonstrated. A day after the Forward’s faux pas, I received several angry phone calls from around the United States. ![]() Yet, in the new media age, old stories never vanish. The Jewish Daily Forward printed a full retraction. George Will graciously corrected the quote and Josh Rogin apologized. Ironically, the embassy employed Nathan’s caterer wife to cook gala kosher dinners. I merited much of a paragraph relating how, at the Christmas party of media grandees Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, I “hovered dangerously over the buffet table, eyeing a massive Christmas ham.” But Nathan Guttman, a reporter for The Jewish Daily Forward, changed the word “eyeing” to “reaching for,” insinuating that I ate the ham. The only thing worse than being mentioned in Mark’s bestselling book was not being mentioned in it. Most miffing was the book This Town, a pillorying of well-connected Washingtonians by The New York Times’s Mark Leibovich. “I had to pull columnist George Will out of a baseball game-like yanking Hemingway out of a bar-to correct one misattributed quote, and berate blogger Josh Rogin for recording a public talk between Jeffrey Goldberg and me in a synagogue, on Yom Kippur. ![]()
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