by Matthew Friedman | Oct 31, 2019 | Essays
The honor guard marched onto the field as patriotic music blared from the minor-league ballpark’s PA system. A contingent of US Marines wheeled smartly and marched to the infield under the billowing Stars and Stripes in their pressed dress blues, with their white caps...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 27, 2019 | Features
“I don’t talk to Jew journalists,” Ernst Zundel shouted into the phone before slamming the receiver down on its cradle. Mere text does little to capture the moment. You have to imagine the rage in the voice of Canada’s most notorious Holocaust denier, spoken in...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 19, 2019 | Features
The first hint was a swastika and an SS symbol hastily spray-painted on a plywood barrier outside a building site on Newark Avenue in Jersey City. It was November 12 2016, the weekend after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Something was...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 10, 2019 | Commentary
We woke on the morning of Yom Kippur to the news from Halle. I felt queasy, but not surprised. My first thought was “of course: another holy day, another attack.” This has happened before; it has happened too many times before. In the last year alone, fourteen people...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 2, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
If you spend enough time in the Jewish social media universe, you start to see the same questions repeated over and over: Are the children of intermarriage with Gentiles really Jewish? Did the Khazars really exist? Why is chicken “meat?” The conversations on Facebook,...
