The historically ambivalent relationship between American Jews and the Black community continues with the ascendancy of Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement over the past five years. As long as BLM “stays in its lane” and restricts itself to domestic civil rights issues, Jewish groups are happy to go along. 600 such organizations even signed a […]
Black and Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter…to Israeli and American Cops
To many Americans, but especially African-Americans, this time must feel like the worst case of Groundhog Day ever. Like waking up every day to witness yet another Black man or woman shot dead by the police. And each of those days would bring riots and mayhem to cities throughout the country. making you feel like […]
Covid19 and the Abuse of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
COMMENTING NOTE: Because of a technical issue with a plugin update which caused the admin portion of the site to crash, my web host had to revert to a previous version of the installation. This caused some of the comment settings to deactivate and commenting was unavailable for the past week. My apologies. And thanks […]
Jews, Blacks, Muslims: If We Hate Each Other, Our Enemies Win
There is entirely too much hate going around. Orthodox Jews assaulted in New York City, an ultra-Orthodox Jew on life support after a machete attack in Monsey. Jews killed in Jersey City. Most of these particular incidents were perpetrated by African-Americans. It has been excruciatingly difficult for Jews to navigate this minefield of hate without […]
