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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The White House counselor’s response is a vexing notion, writes Andrew Silow-Carroll.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr (left) and Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen attend the Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism at the Department of Justice on July 15. (Photo SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump administration officials see a new brand of bigotry through the prism of anti-Israel activity.
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Moe Berg was a catcher for several teams during his 16-year Major League Baseball career in the 1920s and ’30s. (Courtesy of Irwin Berg)
Moe Berg’s story has been told in a nonfiction book and a feature film, but veteran filmmaker Aviva Kempner thought his story also deserved a full-length documentary.
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Protesters in Albania hold a placard depicting billionaire George Soros with dollar signs for eyes during a demonstration against a deal between the country’s Social Democrats and the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration. (Photo by Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Images)
“The notion that wealthy Jews are controlling the government is a longstanding anti-Semitic trope and one of the pillars of modern anti-Semitism.”–ADL
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Protesters in Philadelphia gather to urge an end to the government shutdown, Jan. 8, 2019. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
“Israel built a wall, 99.9 percent successful,” Pres. Trump said Jan. 25 in a Rose Garden speech announcing that he agreed to reopen the government. “Won’t be any different for us.”
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Judd Apatow poses with his wife and daughters at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas on March 10, 2018. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW)
C.K. often treads into taboo areas, but this is hardly his best work.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., May 1, 2018. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In the latest probe of its practices, The New York Times scrutinizes Facebook’s attempts to police its users and remove dangerous content, and suggests the operation is both ad hoc and capricious.
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Amos Oz speaks at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 5, 2015. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Amos Oz, one of Israel’s most widely read and best-known writers, has died. He was 79.
Read MoreThe Festival of Lights is in need of a great tune to truly capture the holiday’s message and themes.
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Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, April 11, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Facebook complained that some its critics were using conspiratorial anti-Semitic imagery even as it hired a firm that went after George Soros.
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A mourner wearing a Star of David around his neck at the Squirrel Hill memorial service for the victims of the shooting at the neighborhood's Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 29, 2018. (Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
If anti-Semitism is a chronic disease, it is one that we can fight whenever it erupts. But that means looking for the right treatment. Fatalism is not the cure.
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