Mark I. Pinsky has covered Southern politics since 1972 and is the author of “A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed.”
Mark I. Pinsky
By Mark I. Pinsky
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The Schmooze Is ‘Family Guy’ Anti-Semitic?
Sunday night’s episode of “Family Guy,” the long-running animated comedy, included a 25-second segment that illustrated once again creator Seth MacFarlane’s unapologetic anti-Semitism. In the episode, main character Peter Griffin and his friends are off on a typically absurdist search to find God and to get Him to stop thwarting their favorite football team, the…
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News Touring Turkey’s Synagogues
Leon Elnekave, the affable leader of the dwindling Jewish community of Bursa, Turkey’s old Ottoman capital, met my wife and me on a narrow, cobbled lane and unlocked the black wrought iron gate to the 500-year-old Gerush Synagogue. As he led us into the landscaped courtyard, my wife, Sallie, suddenly began to cry. “I don’t…
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News Mr. Grayson Salsas Back to Washington
Thanks to overwhelming support from a growing Puerto Rican community in Central Florida, Alan Grayson, the pugnacious Jewish Democrat ousted in the Tea Party wave of 2010, is returning to Congress after a historic landslide. Grayson’s success comes after the 18-point shellacking he took as an incumbent congressman two years ago. This time, he won…
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News Grayson Defying Convention in Fla.
One of the highest-profile congressional contests this year is a stark faceoff: a left-wing Jew versus a right-wing Christian. As many Democratic candidates from swing congressional districts move to the center — or even further right — this year, the campaign of Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida promises to challenge the Democratic Party’s predominant strategy…
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