Category Archives: Anti-Semitism

from “The Melting Pot and Beyond,” by David Biale

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Continuing my excerpting from Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, this is from the first essay in the book, “The Melting Pot and Beyond,” by David Biale, a fascinating look at the Jewish role in forging the notion of the United States … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading: Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, edited by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, has been on my shelf since I bought it in the late 1990s—the book was published in 1998—but I only started reading it last month. I … Continue reading →

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Steve Salaida’s Controversial Tweets About Anti-Semitism, With Context

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Ampersand

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“How Do You Get a Jewish Girl’s Number? Lift Up Her Sleeve:” Antisemitism in Orange County, NY

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Update: Governor Cuomo orders an investigation. According to an article by Benjamin Weiser in today’s New York Times, “Swastikas, Slurs and Torments in Town’s Schools,” that was just one of the antisemitic jokes to which Jewish students in the Pine … Continue reading →

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John Whitbeck, GOP Candidate for Congress, Makes an Anti-Semitic Joke

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This is almost a week old, but someone posted it to Facebook today. The joke is one on which a representative of the Jewish people presents the new pope with a bill for the last supper, something–according to the joke–that … Continue reading →

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Blogging My Summer Classes: Literature of the Holocaust

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have just finished reading the first set of essays written by my students in ENG 261, Literature of the Holocaust. The prompt asked them to consider whether or not they think there is an obligation to remember the Holocaust, with … Continue reading →

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The Separation of Church and State in Early 19th Century England

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

When my brother-in-law died a couple of years ago, I inherited from him a pristine set of The World’s Orators, a multivolume collection of “the greatest orations of the world’s history,” edited by Guy Carleton Lee and published by G. … Continue reading →

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Because antisemitism means never having to say you’re sorry

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

From Jewcy: Now, to be fair, this ad seems to be part of a theme. Go to Wodka Vodka’s website, scroll through the gallery just under the navigation bar and you’ll find–or at least I did just now when I … Continue reading →

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Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, Foreskin Man, Vulva Girl and the Two-Thirds of My Freshman Composition Class Who Are Failing Right Now

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

You know that feeling when there is so much going on, so much you have to do, so many different threads that you need to keep weaving together, or balls in the air that you can’t let drop, or spinning … Continue reading →

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Continuing a Discussion about Brit Milah

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Commenting in the thread about the circumcision ban that has been proposed in San Francisco, Chingona wrote the following: Secondly … and here I’m trying to put into words something that I think is felt on a subconscious and instinctual level … Continue reading →

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