
Of Germs, Race and Newfangled Hatreds
Jew-hatred comes in many sizes, shapes, and colors—a vast cornucopia of contempt. It’s positively dizzying.
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears regularly on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel's Just War in Gaza."

Jew-hatred comes in many sizes, shapes, and colors—a vast cornucopia of contempt. It’s positively dizzying.

Don’t be surprised if Kagan remains the lone Jewish Justice for some time.

In the United States, where crimes of hate mostly strike Jewish targets, and with violent antisemitism making a disquieting comeback, no one stands guard on the wall.

No one has ever made better use of bad publicity. The worse it gets, the more energized he seemingly becomes, and the more devotedly his base responds.

Leo Frank’s lynching can be credited with inspiring two distinct Jewish movements: the instantaneous creation of the Anti-Defamation League; a half century later, an army of Jewish northerners, linked by the symbolic evil of a noose, joined Martin Luther King’s crusade to bring civil rights to the South.

New York is unfortunately reclaiming old habits, but for different reasons. Back in the 1970s, the causes for surging crime were institutional. Nowadays, the reasons are entirely ideological.

Israel just celebrated its jubilee anniversary — 75 years of modern statehood.

It doesn’t require any special clairvoyance to realize that the world is burning and too many American Jews are standing around fiddling with violins — and I mean the bouncy, and not mournful kind.

With Passover upon us, it is fair to ask: What is the quality of this freedom Jews are now left with? Have we traded in one bondage for another?

The ICC just issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of forcibly transferring Ukrainian children and teenagers into Russian territory in some grand wartime kidnapping scheme.