Why Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a Cautionary Tale for 21st-Century Jews [Spoilers]
“BlacKkKlansman” is an alarm clock, telling Jews — who still need police protection at their places of worship — to wake up.
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Author: Charles Dunst
Jay Williams, Former Duke Basketball Star, Calls Himself the ‘Black Jewish Jordan’
Williams isn’t the first professional player to play on Jewish hardwood. As a child, superstar LeBron James used to play regularly at the Shaw Jewish Community Center in Akron, Ohio.
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Desus and Mero are Late-Night Comedy’s Most Jewish Hosts
Desus and Mero don’t single out the Jewish community for a biased mocking, instead treating Jews as they would any other community with whom they interact: as a legitimate target for humor.
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Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish Legacy
“Justice Kennedy’s retirement could drastically shift the balance of the Supreme Court, and threaten the very rights and liberties we’ve fought so hard to protect,” NCJW tweeted on June 27.
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How Geopolitics Keeps Israel Out of World Cup Contention
Israel’s bordering neighbors — with the exception of Egypt, an African state that is part of the Confederation of African Football — played in the Asian Football Confederation, or AFC.
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Anthony Bourdain Used Food to Bridge Divides — Even Between Arabs and Jews
In the opening of the 2013 episode in which he visits Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Bourdain notes that the region is “easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world. And there’s no hope – none – of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off.”
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Jay-Z’s 1st Inspiration was His Jewish 6th-Grade Teacher
In 1980, Renee Rosenblum-Lowden — who is now 77 and lives in Maryland — taught sixth grade at I.S. 318. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, she remembered “Shawn,” as he continues to call him, as smart and linguistically capable beyond his years.
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