The hardest part of growing up is leaving friends behind, all over the world. Such is the burden of my generation: it seems everyone I know has at one time left a love halfway around the world, or has made friends in many places then realized those friends would never meet. Or, like me, realized […]
A day after I write this, an 88-year-old white supremacist walks into the Holocaust museum and shoots a security guard. Racism comes from all sides. I believe strongly in unlimited free speech. Yet one glance at the shooter’s Web site gives me at least some insight into why countries like Germany and Austria have banned […]
So there’s this video circulating the viral Web; a bunch of American Jews in Tel Aviv are interviewed by Max Blumenthal on the eve of President Obama’s speech in Cairo and are shown on camera spouting racial epithets and hateful words, directed at the president. I’ve actually heard people express surprise at such racist outbursts. […]