Paraguayan Jewish soccer boss suspended for racial slurs against Arabs

Published on August 17, 2012

Paraguay's soccer association has suspended the Jewish president of a team for hurling racial slurs at a colleague of Arab descent.

One Serious Problem Gone

By David A. Lehrer
Published on February 1, 2012

Racial hatred trial opens in Perth

Published on January 18, 2011

The trial of a West Australian man who posted a video on YouTube accusing Judaism of being a “religion of racism, hate, homicide and ethnic cleansing” opened in Perth. Brendon Lee O'Connell, 38, who is representing himself, described Monday's proceedings in District Court as a “kangaroo court” and told Judge Henry Wisbey he should be facing charges of treason. Two of O’Connell’s supporters had to be removed from court at the judge’s request. O'Connell is facing seven racial hatred charges relating to a 2009 altercation with two Jewish students in a supermarket where a Friends of Palestine protest was being staged against the sale of Israeli fruit.

Sheket, b’vakasha!

Published on February 22, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case

By Joe R. Hicks
Published on February 15, 2007

The basic facts of the case are that last Halloween, a pack of black youths, with no evidence of any provocation, set upon three young white women who had come to an upscale part of Long Beach known to attract trick-or-treaters.

Iconic Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, 77

Published on September 21, 2006

Obituary for crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.

Controverisal Israeli security approach takes flight in U.S.

By Sam Ser
Published on September 21, 2006

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, air travel has become infinitely less pleasant. But has it become any less dangerous?

The Many Faces

By Rabbi Lisa Edwards
Published on October 27, 2005

I just spent the weekend with more than 125 people (including 50 children) who came together because they are Jews with widely varying ethnicities and skin colors. They stay together because the intention of Bechol Lashon (In Every Tongue) -- the initiative on ethnic and racial diversity in the Jewish community and the sponsor of the weekend -- is to provide a time of learning and play in a Jewish atmosphere offering more than welcome.

A Plan to Take Over Troubled School

By Howard Blume
Published on August 8, 2005

A successful charter school operator will launch a campaign to take over the Los Angeles high school where racial tensions erupted into campus brawls earlier this year.

Vote May Be First to Blur Ethnic Lines

By Joel Kotkin
Published on February 24, 2005

For more than a generation, racial and ethnic politics have dominated Los Angeles' mayoral elections. That is, perhaps, until this year, which might be the first election of Los Angeles' emerging post-ethnic era.

Anti-Semitic Sing-A-Long

By Gaby Wenig
Published on August 19, 2004

Borat is a fictional Kazahkstanian reporter distinguished by his utter lack of social propriety who allegedly films segments on American culture for Kazakhstan television. Like the spectacularly stupid pseudo black rapper Ali G and the unashamedly vapid gay Austrian fashion reporter Bruno, Borat is a creation of British Jewish comic Sacha Baron Cohen. And, like the other characters, Borat uses his lack of shame to expose people's darker sides by asking them uncomfortable questions.

The Gifts

By Magnificent Montague
Published on March 18, 2004

From 1955 to 1967, Magnificent Montague was the most riveting rhythm-and-blues disc jockey in the nation, presiding over the birth of "soul" music.

Court’s Race Rulings Raises Deeper Issues

By David A. Lehrer
Published on July 10, 2003

The United States Supreme Court has handed down its decisions on the issue of affirmative action. In the cases of Grutter vs. Bollinger and Gratz vs. Bollinger, the court has ruled on the constitutionality of race-conscious programs and their viability in educational institutions across the country.

Take It to the Church

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 28, 2002

The church is not a place that one typically associates with Chanukah.

Apes as Allegory

By Michael Aushenker
Published on August 9, 2001

Escape from the "Planet of the Apes?" Not this summer

Following the Leader

Published on March 23, 2000

Not long after he took over as national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham Foxman was asked to fly to Geneva and head off an international crisis. It set the tone for what's come since.

Civil Rights Redux

By Marvin Caplan
Published on December 2, 1999

"Farther Along: A Civil Rights Memoir"

by Marvin Caplan.

Louisiana State University Press, $29.95

Black and white liberals, among them an inordinate number of Jews, who fought the civil rights battles of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, are now often seen as faintly archaic figures.

Web Hate Sites Proliferating

By Lev Krichevsky
Published on April 1, 1999

The growth of hate sites on the World Wide Web is staggering, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Torah Portion

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on November 6, 1997

You know me, Rabbi. You know how important thesynagogue is to me, how much I enjoy services; you see me at yourTorah classes. You know what kind of Jew I am: I am the only one atthe family seder table who can read the Hebrew side of the Haggadah,but they won't accept me, because I wasn't born Jewish!"
Every rabbi has heard these painfultestimonies.