Briefs: Sheriff wants to prosecute YULA girls after soccer brawl; Graffiti targets Jews in Beverlywo
Jewish Journal
February 16, 2007
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Sarah Silverman ‘Nightline’ interview
Jewish Journal
December 23, 2006
What\’s funny to Sarah? And does she tell racist jokes? Well, she does use the \’C\’ word![\"ALTTEXT\"](\"{filedir_3}ssnightline.jpg\")
Michael Richards: still not a Jew
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2006
As Cosmo Kramer in \”Seinfeld,\” Richards played one on TV. But he himself is not Jewish — not that there\’s anything wrong with that.Richards lashed out a heckler at the Laugh Factory last Friday, spitting out the \”N\” word without humor and with abandon. Audience members booed, several walked out, then Richards himself walked off stage.Fellow comedians and fans have been quick to criticize Richards — and misrepresent his religious background.
The Arrogant Poet You Love to Hate
Robert David Jaffee
June 1, 2006
In \”Pound of Flesh,\” at the Odyssey Theater, Ezra Pound spars with Pvt. Cooper, a young soldier who keeps him company while he awaits trial in Italy for his crimes of treachery against the United States in World War II. If this private is not Pound\’s intellectual match, he more than matches the poet on moral grounds.
Ideological Insults
Michael J. Jordan
September 13, 2001
As terror struck New York and Washington, D.C., Jewish activists were still recovering from the ideological bomb of a U.N. conference that lashed out at Israel as racist and apartheid.
February 11: A Rally for Israel
Larry Eisenberg
February 1, 2001
Talmudic sages wondered how King Achav of Israel could have reigned for decades, considering his practice and encouragement of idolatry and every type of sin. They arrived at the answer that at least during his reign there was, if nothing else, unity among the Jewish people. Today we find deep divisions among our people, perhaps nowhere more so than in our attitudes toward Israel and the peace process. It almost makes you wish for the good old days of King Achav.
Terror, Again
J.J. Goldberg
May 11, 2000
Nothing much happened in Los Angeles last week to mark it as a special week in Jewish history. Ditto for Chicago and Sacramento, Calif.
Defiant Actions
Ruth E. Gruber
February 3, 2000
A far-right party has forged an agreement to share power in Austria\’s government in defiance of an unprecedented European Union threat to penalize the country.
Changing Teens’ Thinking
Naomi Pfefferman
August 12, 1999
The fresh-faced teenager looks like the girl next door until she displays her swastika tattoo in an episode of \”The Teen Files,\” which continues this week on UPN. \”I think the Holocaust was a good thing,\” she says, serenely. \”[Hitler] probably should have done more.\”
Cover Story
Joel Kotkin
June 18, 1998
The recent revelations about the South OrangeCounty Community College District\’s desire to offer a course that, inpart, blames the Mossad and the Anti-Defamation League for theassassination of President John F. Kennedy read something like a badclipping from the area\’s far-right past.
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