Daily Archives: July 28, 2020

NYT: ‘tempers are rankled by sweltering temperatures’

Comment: “This is the Spike Lee theory of criminality, I believe. First mentioned in “Do the Right Thing,” then “Summer of Sam.” The heat made me do it, yes sah. I’m surprised the Times hasn’t gone full-bore with this and … Continue reading

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JP: Brooklyn’s Anti-Gentrication Groups are Pushing Antisemitic Narratives and Activism

From the Jewish Press: Today’s situation of riots, anarchy, and anti-Jewish violence, has a lot of parallels to the Crown Heights riots of ‘91, and one of them is this: Jews in middle and southern Brooklyn are under siege again. … Continue reading

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