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Martin DyckmanNovember 23, 2015

The letters, mailed from Vienna in the summer of 1938, spoke of enthusiasm and hopefulness at the prospect of coming to the United States. Nothing revealed the reason except for the stationery that had been hand-altered to show a new address. It was a few months after Hitler had taken over and life was becoming […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 22, 2015

The letters, mailed from Vienna in the summer of 1938, spoke of enthusiasm and hopefulness at the prospect of coming to the United States. Nothing revealed the reason except for the stationery that had been hand-altered to show a new address. It was a few months after Hitler had taken over and life was becoming […]

Associated PressNovember 16, 2015

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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio says Israel’s fight against terrorism is the same one being fought by the United States and Europe. The Florida senator spoke in Miami Beach during a large rally in support of Israel and against anti-Semitism. He says the threat to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv is the same as the threat […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 31, 2015

How don’t we love Donald Trump? Let us count the ways. He is arrogant, artful, audacious, autocratic, avaricious, biased, bigoted, blustering, bombastic, bossy, a braggart, calculating, capricious, chauvinistic, coarse, conceited, cocky, crude, cunning, contriving, cynical, dangerous, deceitful, dislikable, duplicitous, dogmatic, dictatorial, dissentious, domineering, egotistical, erratic, evasive, feckless, haughty, high-handed, hypocritical, imperious, inconsistent, inflammatory, insatiable, insidious, […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2015

I grew up in a segregated community in Florida and attended supposedly “separate but equal” schools in a small town that had separate water fountains, bathrooms and even beaches, among other restrictions. We were expected to cross the street when a white woman was approaching and never look a white man in the eyes – […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 22, 2015

Appalled, perplexed, baffled, mystified, angry. Any of these words captures how I feel upon reading story after story about the rise of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe. I am mindful of George Santayana’s adage, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Apparently that condemnation includes us all. We continue to see […]

Daniel TilsonFebruary 8, 2015

There goes President Barack Obama again, being all intelligent, nuanced, thought-provoking and downright provocative. Don’t you love it, or at least respect and admire it? I do. I’m imagining a lot of heads nodding. Am also imagining a lot of heads shaking back and forth. Maybe some gnashing teeth and foaming at the corners of […]

Tag: Anti-Semitism
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Martin Dyckman: They pander the repulsive to the bigoted

Martin Dyckman: They pander the repulsive to the bigoted

Marco Rubio: Israel, Europe, U.S. in same fight against terrorism

Martin Dyckman: We’ve seen Donald Trump’s type before

Anthony Major: Live, learn – and let live

Ed Moore: Are we Condemned to relive the anti-Semitic 1930s?

Daniel Tilson: President Obama Prayer Breakfast furor is teachable moment