Menachem Rosensaft

Let's assume for a moment that a presidential candidate of either party had come out against interracial marriage. How many of us would be inclined to vote for him or her?

Until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the anti-miscegenation laws of 16 states including Virginia, Texas, Florida, North...

Reacting to the inclusion of the "white nationalist" anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow on a panel on "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the Pursuit of Diversity Is Weakening the American Identity" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Ed Schultz observed on MSNBC's The Ed Show that, "We've...

As the father of a daughter, I found President Obama's phone call to Sandra Fluke on Friday to be an act of singular grace and compassion. "He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women," she told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell minutes...

Arthur Jones, a neo-Nazi, outspoken anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, wants to be a Republican congressman from the Land of Lincoln.

This is neither a joke nor an exaggeration. The 64-year-old Jones, who organizes "family friendly" celebrations of Adolf Hitler's birthday and maintains that "the Holocaust never happened," actually is a...

Better late, even extremely, excruciatingly late, than never. MSNBC's decision to oust Patrick Buchanan as its arch-conservative political commentator last week was long overdue.

Some of Buchanan's erstwhile colleagues at the network are voicing their unhappiness at this development. "Mika [Brzezinski] and I strongly disagree with this outcome," Joe Scarborough...

Peter Bober, the mayor of Hollywood, Fl., since 2008, epitomizes what the late US District Court Judge Whitman Knapp (for whom I had the great privilege of clerking) used to refer to as the Equine Theory of Life: there are far more horses' posteriors in the world than horses. Elected...

I cannot for the life of me decide, with apologies to Shakespeare's Lafeu in "All's Well That Ends Well," whether Rick Zitelman is a knave or a fool. Regardless, he has a great deal to answer for and should not be allowed to evade public excoriation.
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It is virtually impossible to imagine anything more reprehensible than the recent spectacle of haredi, that is ultra-Orthodox, Jewish boys wearing yellow stars of David and simulated striped black-and-white concentration camp uniforms at a demonstration in Jerusalem. Offended by the Israeli authorities' efforts to curtail the verbal and physical abuse...

The spectacle of haredi -- that is, ultra-Orthodox -- thugs spitting on Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old schoolgirl in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh has exacerbated the already frayed relations between the fundamentalist religious sector of the Jewish community, in Israel and elsewhere, and the rest of us, that is,...

An abhorrent rally Saturday night in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square featuring haredim, that is, ultra-Orthodox Jews, wearing yellow stars and simulated concentration camp uniforms brings to mind Walt Kelly's observation in the classic Pogo comic strip, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

"It's like how it started with...

Sandra Gabrilove Saltzman, who died late on the night of December 24, 2011, at the age of 63, attended the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan, Fieldston High School in Riverdale, NY, Brown University, and New York University School of Law. This eulogy was delivered at her funeral on December 28,...

When Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon partnered with Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, to propose Medicare reform, Wyden was promptly denounced by New York Times columnist and Nobel Economics laureate Paul Krugman as a "useful idiot" who did "a bad, bad thing." Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat...

On December 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96 (I), which declared genocide, defined as "a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups," to be "a crime under international law which the civilized world condemns, and for the commission of which principals...

On December 17, 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11 expelling "Jews, as a class" from large parts of Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee "within twenty-four hours." A few weeks later, following protests from Jewish groups, President Lincoln had this order rescinded. When Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of...

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared that he had come "from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the birthplace of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him)."

With the Obama administration and much of the organized Jewish community focused on the schizophrenic Palestinian bid for UN membership, a series of recent remarks by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seem to have largely slipped under the radar.

"Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating...

Most people would not consider a mere five years to be an "era," that term generally being reserved for far longer spans of time. And yet, as is evident from Ben Shephard's masterful The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War, published this month, the...

I cannot remember reading anything as despicable or callous as Henry Kissinger's observation, captured for posterity on secret White House recordings newly released by the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, that "The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And...

Who are we if not the product of our past? And sometimes we realize that the essence of our identity may have its roots a long time ago.

The following incident appears in the pages of the Memorial Book, of the Jewish community of Brzeziny, a town...

I take no position on whether countries should prohibit religious proselytizing. Over the centuries, Jews, especially Jewish children, have far too often been the victims of proselytization. During the years of the Holocaust, desperate Jewish parents in Poland smuggled their children out of the ghetto for safekeeping by Christians only...