Open Letter to My Fellow Jews: The Democratic Party is not your religion (or anybody’s)

2008-09-22
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Open Letter to My Fellow Jews: The Democratic Party is not your religion (or anybody’s)

From the days of FDR, the vast majority of American Jews have identified with the Democratic Party almost if it were their religion.  This included most especially secular Jews like me whose blasé attitude toward their faith and toward religious observance in general made such a replacement all the more important emotionally. This same...

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Is Spike Lee the Jesse Jackson of Film? (The real reason for his spat with Clint Eastwood)

2008-06-10
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One of the ironies of these supposedly post-racial Barack Obama times is that so much seventies-era identity politics has been has been coming back to haunt us like the “undead” in a horror movie. And I’m not just talking about the excrescences of Wright, Pfleger and Meeks, et al. Director Spike Lee has reared...

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