Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University and the co-author (with Terrence Johnson) of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue. His next book, Can We Laugh at That? Comedy in Conflicted Age, will be released on March 24.
Jacques Berlinerblau
By Jacques Berlinerblau
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Opinion The ‘Hymietown’ affair degraded Black-Jewish relations. Jesse Jackson wasn’t the real culprit
Louis Farrakhan's entry into the fray marked the real point of deterioration
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A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar
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‘Secular” is to “Jew” as “holy” is to “Torah,” as “noisy” is to “grogger,” as “crotchety” is to “Larry David.” Which is another way of saying that this coupling of adjective and noun sounds logical, natural and familiar. Could the same be said of a shiduch on the order of “secular Southern Baptist,” or “secular…
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