Category Archives: Jews

The Many Loves Of Matisyahu

From Wikipedia: Matisyahu met NYU film student Talia when she interviewed him for a documentary about men and women not touching. They were set up by Rabbi Dov Yonah Korn, NYU’s Chabad chaplain,[41] and they married in August 2004.[42] Together … Continue reading

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What Makes For A Righteous Goy?

American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …In the late sixties and early seventies, at the same time that the arrival of the “new anti-Semitism” was announced, American Jewish organizations were changing their … Continue reading

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The Consequences Of Making The Holocaust Central In Jewish Life

American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …Once the Holocaust became centered in Jewish consciousness, and to the extent that it became centered, it provided a language and framework that deepened anxiety about … Continue reading

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WEHT To The Black-Jewish Alliance?

American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …there was never much of a black-Jewish alliance on the communal or organizational level. There were a great many individual Jews who over the years had … Continue reading

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Who’s Got The Most Victimhood Points?

American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …the decline in American of an integrationist ethos (which focused on what Americans have in common and what unites us) and its replacement by a particularist … Continue reading

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