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,...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 30, 2019 | Reviews, Television
I had a tear in my beer as I watched the conclusion of the Country Music documentary series on PBS last week. My Achy-breaky heart really went out to the creator and director of the series because it was just so hard to bear. I experienced a moment of profound...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 24, 2019 | Commentary
I have been remembering high school this week, in the wake of the revelations of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s history of racist actions. And not fondly. As Matthew Barlow noted in The Typescript last week, “racism runs deep” in Canada, a reality that...
