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"BlacKkKlansman" tells the story of two cops -- a black and a Jew -- infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in 1972. (Screenshot from YouTube)
“BlacKkKlansman” is an alarm clock, telling Jews — who still need police protection at their places of worship — to wake up.
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Jay Williams playing for Duke in a game against Maryland in the 2001 NCAA tournament. (Brian Bahr/ALLSPORT/Getty Images)
Williams isn’t the first professional player to play on Jewish hardwood. As a child, superstar LeBron James used to play regularly at the Shaw Jewish Community Center in Akron, Ohio.
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Desus Nice, left, and The Kid Mero in North Hollywood, Calif., April 20, 2018. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for VICELAND)
Desus and Mero don’t single out the Jewish community for a biased mocking, instead treating Jews as they would any other community with whom they interact: as a legitimate target for humor.
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen during a ceremony at the White House, April 10, 2017. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
“Justice Kennedy’s retirement could drastically shift the balance of the Supreme Court, and threaten the very rights and liberties we’ve fought so hard to protect,” NCJW tweeted on June 27.
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Rami Gershon of the Israel national soccer team reacts after a Euro 2016 qualifying match against Belgium at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israel’s bordering neighbors — with the exception of Egypt, an African state that is part of the Confederation of African Football — played in the Asian Football Confederation, or AFC.
Read MoreIn the opening of the 2013 episode in which he visits Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Bourdain notes that the region is “easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world. And there’s no hope – none – of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off.”
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Jay-Z at a Samsung Mobile event in Brooklyn, New York, July 3, 2013. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Samsung)
In 1980, Renee Rosenblum-Lowden — who is now 77 and lives in Maryland — taught sixth grade at I.S. 318. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, she remembered “Shawn,” as he continues to call him, as smart and linguistically capable beyond his years.
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