It is safe to say this is more than enough legal jeopardy for a single human being to manage—especially one running for president. The campaign trail will be one long march of legal trials.

As if the atomic bomb and its potential to destroy the world wasn’t enough tension, Nolan introduces another Jewish character, Lewis Strauss—the opportunist to Oppenheimer’s moral idealist.

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.

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.