wasp Archives – Jewish Journal

Learning Chutzpah From My Husband

Kylie Ora Lobell July 24, 2019

California: the left’s laboratory

Dennis Prager June 6, 2013

Our state of California has become a laboratory. The progressive party, the Democrats, holds every statewide office, from governor on down, and they hold super-majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

U.S. response to a cry for help during World War II

Michael Berenbaum October 24, 2012

A prosecutor by training and a historical novelist by avocation, Gregory J. Wallance has written books of historical fiction and historical nonfiction.

Out of “Focus”

Naomi Pfefferman November 1, 2001

\”David Mamet calls me Hebraically challenged,\” confides actor William H. Macy, a longtime collaborator of the esteemed playwright. \”I\’m the ultimate [gentile]. Part of me is the imploding WASP, a role I\’ve certainly played to death.\”\n\nWith his weak smile and wounded-looking blue eyes, Macy was riveting in his Oscar-nominated turn as a car dealer struggling to cover up his wife\’s kidnapping in the Coen brothers\’ 1996 film \”Fargo.\” He was the humiliated husband of an oversexed porn star in \”Boogie Nights,\” and a beleaguered 1950s sitcom dad in \”Pleasantville.\”\n\nWhich is why he was cautious when director Neal Slavin asked him to star in his noirish feature-film debut, \”Focus\” — based on Arthur Miller\’s 1945 novel about a milquetoast mistakenly identified as Jewish by his anti-Semitic neighbors.\n