Britta Lokting
By Britta Lokting
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Culture Susan Klebold Doesn’t Believe God Is Watching Over Her Family Anymore
In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered a kind of “religious warfare” in the community of Littleton, Colorado. The notion that she hadn’t raised her son to be…
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News Trump Appoints Aide With Anti-Semitic Ties
On Monday, Donald Trump appointed a top foreign policy advisor whose father was an active member of the John Birch Society, which has a history of segregationist and racist views. Trump named Joe Schmitz, a former inspector general in the Defense Department, his top foreign policy advisor. Joe Schmitz’ father, John Schmitz, won election as…
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Culture Isn’t There Someone Out There Who Wants To Buy Alan Dershowitz’s Judaica?
I have to preface this story by admitting that I did not know who Alan Dershowitz was until about a month ago. (Hi, Alan.) I was writing a different article for this newspaper, about the collection of the Valmadonna, a famous Judaica library broken up and sold in pieces, and I was speaking with an…
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Culture Isaac Mizrahi Hates Nostalgia But Loves His Mother
While I waited in the lobby of the Jewish Museum Tuesday for the press preview of “Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History,” I plotted how to get the designer’s autograph. The coffee table books titled “Isaac Mizrahi” by Chee Pearlman being sold in the gift shop looked expensive. There were only a few blank pages left…
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Culture Martin Peretz, Outspoken Ex-New Republic Chief, Angrily Quits YIVO Board
After years of frustration with Jonathan Brent, the CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Marty Peretz, a board member and the former longtime owner of The New Republic, walked out of YIVO’s budget meeting on Monday March 7 and resigned. “I think Jonathan Brent is … irresponsible, dictatorial,” said Peretz…
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News Arizona Rabbi Enlists ACLU To Quash Mayor’s Town Hall Prayer Habit
Rabbi Adele Plotkin wants the mayor of Chino Valley, Arizona to stop praying — at town council meetings. Plotkin, 66, of Congregation Beit Torah, contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona about Mayor Chris Marley’s practice of reciting a prayer in the name of Jesus to open the meetings. “It’s where you are that…
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Culture ‘Big Short’ Actor John Magaro Is Hiding in Plain Sight
John Magaro doesn’t usually celebrate his birthday. Despite the fact that he landed one of the lead roles in “The Big Short” playing Charlie Geller, a nerd with glasses who starts a hedge fund out of his garage in Colorado, he shies away from attention. On a recent Friday night though, still more than a…
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Culture Cancellation of Israel Play Provokes Censorship Accusation
The National Coalition Against Censorship has sent out a letter criticizing the recent decision of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in Miami to cancel a production of Julia Pascal’s play “Crossing Jerusalem” in the middle of its run. The play follows an Israeli family during the second intifada in 2002, and was met with…
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