Is France Anti-Semitic?
Joel Kotkin
August 8, 2002
It has become something of a cliché among Jews here in America, and in Israel as well, that Europe is now experiencing a virulent new wave of anti-Semitism.
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anti-semitism
Your Letters
Jewish Journal
July 25, 2002
In his attempt to critique the Anti-Defamation League\’s (ADL) survey on anti-Semitism in America, our friend and former colleague David Lehrer has misinterpreted ADL\’s findings in three key ways (\”Don\’t Circle the Wagons,\” July 5).
Don’t Circle the Wagons
David A. Lehrer
July 4, 2002
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) just issued a report headlined, \”Anti-Semitism on the Rise,\” announcing that \”a strong undercurrent of Jewish hatred persists in America.\”
World Briefs
Jewish Journal
June 13, 2002
President Bush spoke out in defense of Israel and reiterated his criticism of Yasser Arafat. "Israel has a right to defend herself," Bush told reporters June 10 as he met in the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Hate in Newport Beach
Nacha Cattan
June 6, 2002
As a new study shows a rise in anti-Semitism in the United States, a group accused of Holocaust denial is preparing to unleash a media campaign against what it calls \”Jewish-Zionist power.\”
The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) in Newport Beach, Calif., hopes to \”dramatically increase\” its appearances on radio and television programs to spread anti-Israel messages it says Americans are now more willing to hear. Called anti-Semitic by hate-watch groups, the IHR has a modest following and a small operation in the United States. But the institute set off alarm bells when it co-organized a Holocaust revisionism conference that was to take place in Beirut last year.
Life and Times of Henry Ford
Jack Fischel
May 23, 2002
The belief that Jews are a conspiratorial people bent on world domination has a long history in our Western tradition.
Differing Views on European Anti-Semitism
Gene Lichtenstein
May 16, 2002
The talk here in Los Angeles — about anti-Semitism and Europe — is by turns angry and cynical. And not just from the proverbial \”Jewish man on the street,\” so quick to respond both to real and imagined slights. It is almost as though the suspicion that Europeans could not be trusted, that they were fundamentally bred to the bone as anti-Semites, had finally been confirmed. A Jewish leader here, with considerable professional experience working with European organizations, is bitter: The Europeans need oil, he tells me, and the Arabs have it. The rest is conversation.
Warnings
Rob Eshman
May 9, 2002
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, prophesied that the effect of a Jewish ingathering would be immediate. \”Its very inception,\” he wrote in \”Der Judenstaat\” in 1896, \”means the end of anti-Semitism.\”\n\nWell, not quite.\n\nHere we are, 54 years after Herzl\’s dream came true, and no one is feeling very secure these days.
An Impostor Survivor
Baz Dreisinger
April 4, 2002
In the 1948 film "Gentleman\’s Agreement," Phil Green, changing his last name to Greenberg, passes as a Jew in order to write a searing exposé of anti-Semitism.
Why Is This Seder Different?
Dafna Hochman
March 28, 2002
Every year, the retelling of the story of Passover sparks the same intergenerational debate around our family\’s seder table. Like singing \”Dayenu\” or eating charoset, we look forward to our traditional discussion of the nature and extent of anti-Semitism. My father, with my grandmother cheering on, argues that anti-Semitism is alive and, alas, well.
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