Yet Turkey, the U.S., and others still seem to hope Assad will come around Plus Israel is the hot congressional vacation spot, and more in the news Jewish player remains top American Electoral college math makes Jewish vote there mighty valuable  | |  A proposed boycott of Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, a 28-year-old grocery where political passions run high, is raising worries among its sizable Orthodox Jewish membership Pity the Park Slope Food Coop. Drubbed almost annually by some crabby reporter in the New York Times, satirized by author Amy Sohn in her last novel, Prospect Park West, the 28-year-old cooperative grocery store in the heart of gentrified Brooklyn suffers from an image problem. The conventional wisdom is that it's a bastion of smug bourgeois bohemians flitting around organic produce aisles in yoga pants, proclaiming their virtuosity on everything from international politics to composting. It's an image that hasn't been helped by the coop's latest media storm: a proposal by a tiny cohort of members to have Israeli products pulled from its shelves. More  | Hungary has made a hard turn to the political right, but Holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer, who in three decades of journalism has assailed Hungarian communists and Austrian fascists, refuses to let anti-Semitism return unchecked More |  | Robert Stone's 1998 political novel Damascus Gate—in a new paperback edition worth a second read—sets hipster spies, foggy cultists, and terrorists loose in the millennial capital of the Holy Land More | |
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