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I was reminded of the old Jewish joke about the man with the broken watch who goes into a storefront window and asks the man behind the counter to fix his watch. “I don’t fix watches. I perform circumcisions

…words in context. To fail to see any “hint of anti-Semitic implications” in Faurisson’s collective condemnation of the Jewish people as liars

I challenged Chomsky to a public debate on the issue of whether it is anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish to deny the Holocaust. This was his answer: “It is so obvious that there is no point in debating it because nobody believes there in an anti-Semitic connotation to the denial of th...

she made a film calling for the destruction of the Jewish state by armed struggle. She has personally received training in terrorism at camps from which terrorist raids were staged. She advocated the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Sadat. After playing her cont...

I get calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “blood libel.” But under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. There is no such thing as group libel. In other words you can say all you want about “the Jews

he faced a possible death sentence. I had no idea that he was informing against his colleagues in the Jewish Defense League at the same time that he was making bombs for them. Informers are a peculiar lot

you attach the Jewish community to your action…I now find it hard to understand how you can mount a passionate defense for a convicted rapist.

a conflict arose between some leaders of the African American and Jewish communities. Most African American leaders were deeply committed to race-specific affirmative action programs that gave advantages to all Black applicants

…ledge forced me not only to think about them but to try to place them in the context of my own role as a young Orthodox Jewish skeptic in a largely Christian America. Our school taught us that even though America was a majority Christian country

Tammy Faye Bakker declared the judicial ruling “a great victory for Christianity.” I responded that “the fact that a Jewish lawyer helped bring that about must show that it was a great victory for all Americans.” The New York Times reported further on her reaction to our victor...

so I knew what it contained. We all had a great chuckle at what Tammy Faye regarded as an appropriate gift for liberating her husband from bondage.

… stopped being a strictly observant Orthodox Jew. My synagogue attendees had become episodic and my involvement in the Jewish community peripheral. The reason was my children. Many people became more religiously committed “because of the children.” For me

… began to devote considerable time and energy to the defense of Israel against efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. As I entered my seventh decade and looked back on my life’s work

…in the 1930s in Hitler’s Germany. They had no doubt that they were right and that I was pure evil for my support of the Jewish state

there have been efforts to enact academic and cultural boycotts of Jewish Israeli academics. This boycott is directed against Israel's ""occupation"" of Palestinian land—but the occupation that the boycott supporters have in mind is not of the West Bank but rather of Israel itsel...