John Forbes Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose life is portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie, \”A Beautiful Mind,\” has denied allegations that he hates Jews, during a March 17 interview with Mike Wallace on \”60 Minutes.\”
Was John Nash an anti-Semite? And should it affect the Oscars?
Jill Sherman\’s high school years are anything but carefree. Last year an older classmate, who talked openly about his anti-Semitic attitudes, tried to ignite her clothes with a self-described \”Jew burner.\” Physically, Sherman was unhurt by the attack with a cigarette lighter.
Is anti-Semitism on the rise since Sept. 11? Answers vary, depending on whom you ask.
\”We haven\’t seen a resurgence of anti-Semitism since the Sept. 11 attacks,\” observed Amy Levy, a spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League\’s Pacific Southwest Region, which encompasses most of Southern California. Others, such as Rabbi Meyer May, executive director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, have reported increased verbal assaults.
Recently, though, La Voz has published scathing anti-Semitic remarks that have as its targets the L.A. Jewish community.
Aaron Goldsmith is back where he started — on a city council in a seat that at first was given to him, then challenged by some of his neighbors, and finally supported by voters.
The globalization of trade and communications may soon be joined by a new globalization of anti-Semitism, according to a German scholar who knows the subject well.
James Carroll loves the Roman Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the church he loves isn\’t the church he has. Carroll yearns for that short, winsome time when he was ennobled by liberation theology, Vatican II and his bold opposition to the war in Vietnam. But the hopes of that moment faded away as first Pope Paul VI and, later, Pope John Paul II extinguished John XXIII\’s reformist platform.
FDR died on April 12, 1945. I was 11 years old and heard the news on the radio in the bird store, where I was buying seed for my little canary.
Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in California was down slightly, from 275 in 1999 to 257 in 2000, figures across the nation show a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to the ADL\’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.
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