Getting It Right in Afghanistan
Don’t underestimate al-Qaeda, defeat the Taliban, and keep Iran out.
August 23, 2017
How Jerry Lewis’s Comedy Captures the American Jewish Experience
The nutty professor’s inner Gentile.
While the late and celebrated comedian and actor rarely made overt reference to Jews or Judaism in his work, Jeremy Dauber argues that his humor embodied something quintessentially Jewish. He finds this quality in Lewis’s collaborations with the singer Dean Martin, in which Lewis was “manic and kinetic” while Martin played “the suave, elegant straight man”—in other words, a stereotypical Jew against a stereotypical Gentile. And the same juxtaposition is evident in one of Lewis’s best-known movies:
August 23, 2017
Raed Salah’s Terror Empire and the Recent Violence in Jerusalem
The Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement is well funded and influential.
In Belgium, Legalized Euthanasia Has Begun to Encroach on Religious Freedom
A Catholic hospital is ordered to facilitate the slaughter of the mentally ill.
Cuba’s Jewish History, from Columbus to the Present
A refuge for conversos, Holocaust refugees, and anti-Semitic terrorists.
How Jerry Lewis’s Comedy Captures the American Jewish Experience
The nutty professor’s inner Gentile.