March 4, 2013
Welcome to the unpredictable world of David Suissa’s award-winning weekly column. Named “Best Columnist” by the LA Press Club in 2008, Suissa has selected some of his favorite columns and assembled them in one book: Don’t Get Me Started.
You will read about his “22-State Solution” to the Middle East crisis as well as his “King’s Speech” message of reconciliation from a Jewish leader to the Arab world. You will read his civil critiques of J Street and Peter Beinart, as well as his candid critiques of Israeli policy and PR strategy.
From the notion of “Aiming Higher” during the High Holidays to the deadening effect of the “Facebook Blues,” Suissa will challenge you to see common issues in a different way.
In his Jewish Journal cover story, “Can We Argue Without Fighting?” he explores the reasons for the intense divisions in the Jewish community and suggests some ground rules for constructive engagement. Suissa rails against the “missing class” in Jewish education and the missing nourishment in modern synagogues. He takes the gloves off when he has to, but also seeks out stories and ideas that inspire.
This book includes many of Suissa’s “neighborhood” columns, where he profiles a Coffee Bean employee with Down Syndrome, a Holocaust survivor with an innovative peace plan and a social activist-rabbi-professor lamenting the modern “dumbing down” of Judaism.
You’ll read about a man’s passion for Agnon, another man’s passion for exposing U.N. hypocrisy and an American soccer mom who goes undercover to expose terrorists. You’ll hear about Suissa’s sampling of homemade hummus in a Palestinian refugee camp, a story on the “Forgotten Refugees” of Sephardic Jewry and why America’s future might be better served by a “Coffee Party.”
Whether you’re Jewish or not, religious or secular, liberal or conservative, you are bound to find ideas and insights in this book that will light some sparks.
With equal part humor, clarity and candor, Don’t Get Me Started might even “get you started.”
You will read about his “22-State Solution” to the Middle East crisis as well as his “King’s Speech” message of reconciliation from a Jewish leader to the Arab world. You will read his civil critiques of J Street and Peter Beinart, as well as his candid critiques of Israeli policy and PR strategy.
From the notion of “Aiming Higher” during the High Holidays to the deadening effect of the “Facebook Blues,” Suissa will challenge you to see common issues in a different way.
In his Jewish Journal cover story, “Can We Argue Without Fighting?” he explores the reasons for the intense divisions in the Jewish community and suggests some ground rules for constructive engagement. Suissa rails against the “missing class” in Jewish education and the missing nourishment in modern synagogues. He takes the gloves off when he has to, but also seeks out stories and ideas that inspire.
This book includes many of Suissa’s “neighborhood” columns, where he profiles a Coffee Bean employee with Down Syndrome, a Holocaust survivor with an innovative peace plan and a social activist-rabbi-professor lamenting the modern “dumbing down” of Judaism.
You’ll read about a man’s passion for Agnon, another man’s passion for exposing U.N. hypocrisy and an American soccer mom who goes undercover to expose terrorists. You’ll hear about Suissa’s sampling of homemade hummus in a Palestinian refugee camp, a story on the “Forgotten Refugees” of Sephardic Jewry and why America’s future might be better served by a “Coffee Party.”
Whether you’re Jewish or not, religious or secular, liberal or conservative, you are bound to find ideas and insights in this book that will light some sparks.
With equal part humor, clarity and candor, Don’t Get Me Started might even “get you started.”
