the jewish mafia in action? or just rothstein acting on his crushes?

February 16th

i was entertained by edward rothstein (nytimes) and his last broadside, (see link), a spirited defense of wendy doniger, which principally gave one the feeling that rothstein had lusted after wendy about 50 years ago (and apparently still carries a torch for her). that essay had a rather dreamy picture of doniger from 50 years back. the essay itself was rather, pardon me, putrid.

now here is rothstein's next opus, which is even more entertaining: where rothstein praises goldstein and compares her in passing to einstein; is it coincidence that all these steins and doniger are jewish? i dont know about kurt goedel, maybe he was jewish, too.

this essay carries a glamorous picture of goldstein. does rothstein have a crush on her too?

"Truth, Incompleteness and the Goedelian Way, by Edward Rothstein. Rebecca Goldstein pionts out in her elegant new book, that, like Albert Einstein, the mathematician Kurt Goedel was a Platonist".

the essay itself is mediocre, but if you insist on reading it, here is the url: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/arts/14conn.html?pagewanted=all

the question is, is this the famed jewish literary mafia in action, promoting its own? or is it just that rothstein um... likes, jewish women, how shall i put it, of a certain age?