Tales From the Old New Land - New Notes

1982: Rank and file Israeli soldiers try to square their orders in Sabra and Shatilla with their consciences. 

1983: Holocaust survivors react with betrayal at the revelation that the US shielded Klaus Barbie. 

1984: Jewish CIA spook involved in Iran-Contra as it happens. Does best to make mental gymnastics it takes to justify his actions. 

1985: The story of the Achille Lauro

1986: The story of Jonathan Pollard

1987: A Jewish mother struggles with her daughter's abortion as the Bork confirmation plays in the background. 

1988: Jewish parents have a child aboard the Lockerbie plane. 

1989: A Jewish Frankfurt School graduate struggles with the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

1990: Jewish party member struggles in the dissolved USSR as his children clearly begin to thrive. 

1991: Jewish Arabist forced to lie to the Kurds and tell them that the US will back their rebellion knowing full well the US won't. 

1992: Jewish family caught in the middle of the Rodney King riots. 

1993: Liberal brother finally gets spiteful victory against conservative brother with the Oslo accords. 

1994: Holocaust survivors argue about Rwanda and Bosnia. 

1995: Orthodox Rabbi struggles to reconcile his violent rhetoric with Rabin's assassination. 

1996: Jewish Harvard classmate remembers Ted Kaczynski

1997: German-American Jewish family of survivors tours Switzerland, gets payments from Swiss banks. 

1998: The story of Monica Lewinsky

1999: Jewish family in idyllic Colorado during Columbine. 

2000: Sharon at Temple Mount/Bush v Gore: Liberal brother taken advantage of by conservative brother as the right grows ever more strident. 

2001: 9/11 - Cantor-Fitzgerald

2002: A well-meaning elderly Jew's switch from unimpeachable liberalism to things he would never sanction. 

2003: A wealthy conservative father struggles to justify his low-level hatred of his rebellious hippy child during the Iraq War. (son or daughter?)

2004: Military family's faith in itself undone by Abu Ghraib.

2005: Gaza settler betrayed by Ariel Sharon. 

2006: Liberal idealist's faith in democracy undone by the Gaza election. 

2007: Jewish Washington insiders rally around Scooter Libby. 

2008: Middle aged Hillary supporting woman feels displaced by the Obama supporting next generation. 

2009: Jewish bankers on Wall Street mull the ethics of getting rich off subprime housing loans as the Bernie Madoff trial plays out. 

2010: Poor grandparents rail against Obamacare while benefiting from it. 

2011: Arab Spring - Jewish and Islamic pen pals meet.

2012: Dysfunctional New York family is mystified by well-adjusted gay son, must survive Hurricane Sandy together - preechoes of Global Warming eventualities.
2013: Settler family in the Golan worries about Syrian violence spilling over.  

2014: ISIS takeover, Jewish diplomat powerless to help retribution against Iraqi friends who assisted the Americans.  

2015:  A Jewish mother worries about her half-black son in the wake of Michael Brown her black husband is more stoic. 

2016: Grandparents supports Trump. Parents support Clinton. Kids support Bernie. 

2017: A Jewish harasser's actions catch up with him.  

2018: Michael Cohen gets yelled at by his parents.