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January 27, 2023

American Jews Have Ceased to Be Cool, and They Should Stop Trying

The days of Sammy Davis, Jr. are gone.

Between 1956 and 1961, three of America’s biggest celebrities—Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Sammy Davis, Jr.—converted to Judaism. In 2022, one of America’s biggest celebrities, Kanye West, became one the country’s most prominent anti-Semites. John Podhoretz reflects on what this says about the changing place of Jews in the United States, and suggests that they might no longer be, in Davis’s words, “a swinging bunch of people.”

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