One way Donald J. Trump and the GOP won the U.S. presidency in 2016 was leveraging and promoting racial division and prejudice. They attempted a similar strategy in 2018, but lost the GOP majority in...
Goodbye Columbus and Philip Roth’s Typewriter
In May 2018, novelist and son of Newark, Philip Roth passed away at the age of 1985. On this Saturday, July 20, 2019, many of his household items from Litchfield County, Connecticut will be auctioned...
JewliciousReads: Summers Reads – Jewish Summer Beach Reads 2019
I just binge watched two seasons of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to the chagrin of Mr. Podhoretz. I had avoided it, fearing stereotypes, but I watched it and found it satisfying. While many – like...
ShivaWatch: Stars of Disney, the Exodus, and the London Art Scene, as Well as Auschwitz’s ‘Woman in...
We are saddened to report that: A star of Disney Channel shows and two Adam Sandler films passed away at the age of twenty from an ongoing medical condition. Cameron Boyce is best known for his roles...
TJS S3E10 1945-55 part II Shadows on the Golden Decade
The decade after World War Two was a Jewish decade for America. Not only did the Jews achieve the suburban dream, but their culture stepped right into the middle of the American mainstream...
Happy 4th Ya’all
I love America. I always say that you can take me out of America, but you can’t take America out of me. A friend once said to me with surprise that I know more about the current politics in...
TJS S3E9 1945-55 part I Did suburbia make the Jews white?
1945 to 1955 is known as the ‘Golden Decade’ of American Jewry. Here is the first of three episodes which aims to fill in the Jewish Story on the western side of the Atlantic. The...
TJS S3E8 Seventy years of constitutional crisis part II – 1992
In part two of this exploration of Israel’s seventy year constitutional crisis we take a look at the revolution of 1992 and how it contributed to today’s battles. As a special bonus I...
Cusack Learns to Not “Say (or Tweet) Anything” and The Riche$t Israelis, SCOTUS, NYPD, Auction, Kashrut and...
Actor John Cusack, 52, apologized for retweeting a cartoonish meme or meme-ish cartoon of a Star of David-tagged sleeve and arm squashing free speech to his over one million followers. The graphic...
Parkland Survivor Will Not Be Joining Harvard’s Hillel in Fall
To paraphrase the script for the 1942 film, Casablanca, “…it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of a recent high school graduate from Florida and his acceptance to Harvard...