Confederacy
There’s a memorial in Charlotte to Confederate Judah Benjamin, and the city’s Jews want it gone
“We’ve created enough political pressure on a system that they’ve had to take it down.”
Why Are There No Statues Of Jewish Confederate Judah Benjamin To Tear Down?
Judah Benjamin, Jewish confederate leader and Jefferson Davis confidant, has no statues because he alienated himself from Southerners and Jews alike.
Jon Stewart: 'Confederacy Goes for Romney'
Jon Stewart calls “Most of the Confederacy went for Mitt Romney.”
Why Is This Passover Different From All Other Passovers?
Each year at Passover we gather together, crack the door a bit, and break bread of the unleavened variety. It is a celebration of freedom, of tradition, and a reminder of those ties that bind.
South Carolina’s Franklin J. Moses: Scalawag, But No Paskudnyak?
A scalawag may be a nogoodnik or even a paskudnyak, but in the subtitle of Benjamin Ginsberg’s brisk, informed “Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction” from Johns Hopkins University Press, “scalawag” has a more precise historical meaning.