Trump saying Jews are crazy to vote for his nemesis is a throwback to Ed Koch
In 1988, NYC’s mayor stoked Black-Jewish tensions by demonizing Jesse Jackson
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Culture Why Ed Koch’s response to AIDS was very political and not very Jewish
Recent revelations about the former NYC mayor raise questions about his judgment and decency
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News ‘Not just about Crown Heights:’ A Zionist, an educator and an activist pay tribute to David Dinkins
David Dinkins, New York City’s 106th mayor but its first Black one, died at the age of 93 on Monday. A lifelong Harlem Democrat who spent his career in government and politics, Dinkins became mayor in 1989, defeating three-term incumbent Ed Koch. To many, his name is associated with the 1991 Crown Heights riots, in…
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Fast Forward The Koch Brothers Quietly Invested In ‘Wonder Woman’
The billionaire businessmen and political megadonors Charles and David Koch both invested in now-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s RatPac-Dune Entertainment in 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The production company has produced recent hits like “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk,” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” Bill Gates has also quietly invested in the company. Mnuchin, the…
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Fast Forward Ed Koch Vents From The Grave About ‘Least Likable’ Trump
Ed Koch, the crotchety Jewish mayor of New York City who died in 2013, harbored a decades-long dislike of Donald Trump. Now, he’s venting that dislike from beyond the grave. New writings from Koch’s archives on Trump emerged in a report in the New York Times Monday. “Donald Trump is one of the least likable…
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Culture Why ‘Weiner!’ Documentary Brings Back Memories of Ed Koch
Populism comes in many shades. A global current of simmering anger and resentment, manifested most alarmingly on Friday in the UK, continues to buoy race-baiting demagogues. “Weiner,” the new Anthony Weiner documentary, while stunning in its sensational front-row view of the former congressman and mayoral candidate’s implosion, provides a portrait of another brand of the…
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The Schmooze When Mario Cuomo Did Grossinger’s — With Ed Koch
I first met Mario Cuomo, the former New York State governor who died at 82 on Thursday, at Grossinger’s in the Catskills in 1982. He and Ed Koch were debaters before the New York State Broadcasters Association Annual Conference. Hearing of my Forward connection, Koch told me outright “tell your readers to rush to the…
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The Schmooze Conversations With Ed Koch
That Neil Barsky selected Ed Koch as the subject of his first film was far from an accident. Barsky spent his formative years in New York during Koch’s mayoralty (1978-1989), both as a high school student and later as a journalist. The city was in the midst of desperate times. Crime was rampant and the…
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