Hate crimes
If it is time for the FBI’s annual readout of hate crimes, it is also the time for small hysteria about what a hateful nation we live in. As often happens, the headlines are worse than the actual facts, once a little reason is applied to the scary numbers.
Hate crimes
The declaration of this weekend — show up for Shabbat — as a memorial to the slaughter of Pittsburgh Jews reminds me of a column I wrote following that unspeakable tragedy. The thing that distinguishes the Pittsburgh attack from, say, Nazi Germany, is that in America, churches and mosques also have been
Hate crimes
How Jewish publishers, editors and writers respond to anti-Semitism was served with bagels and coffee Tuesday morning at a conference arranged by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Jewish panelists were Philadelphia Gay News founder and publisher Mark Segal, Jewish Exponent Editor Liz Spikol, and journalist Stu Bykofsky, a.k.