The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” […]
Tag: anti-semitism
Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?
by Omer Aziz Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Mass., a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed […]
Free speech vs. banning Jews: Where’s the line?
The University of California, Berkeley is known for many things, some good and some very bad, even outrageous. In 1964, a ban on campus political and religious […]
We can learn from Colleyville synagogue attack
Emotions have been everywhere over what happened in Colleyville Saturday night — relief, gratitude, anger, fear, frustration, exhaustion. The attack on Congregation Beth Israel ended without the […]
Democracy depends on the separation of church and state
Early last week, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the head of the World Values Network, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling pop singer Dua […]
Can you spot the anti-Semitic tropes?
by Manya Brachear Pashman Lexicographers have a long history of hindsight on the word “anti-Semitism.” When James Murray, the original editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, encountered […]
