The other day I listened to an NPR interview with Dick Thaler, the 2017 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics Science. I was duly impressed with his intellect and manner, and I soon found myself wondering whether he was Jewish. Over 40% of the economics prize laureates have been Jewish. But identifying Nobel Prize winners as…
Sebastian Gorka had some unsolicited words of advice for Harvey Weinstein after the Hollywood producer’s fall from grace this week over a slew of articles detailing decades of allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Gorka, who as ousted from his post on the White House’s National Security Council in August, was referring to news reports…
The New Yorker reported on Tuesday that 13 women have claimed that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them, including three who told the magazine they had been raped. In the article, a spokeswoman for Weinstein denied the claims. Reuters was unable to independently confirm any of the claims. Weinstein and several of…
A devastating investigation into the stories of thirteen women who say Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them was published by the New Yorker on Tuesday morning. The report, penned by Ronan Farrow, comes after the New York Times investigation that resulted in the firing of the Hollywood movie mogul from his media company. The…
Updated, 3:30 p.m.: Mark Oppenheimer has issued an apology through Tablet for his article concerning Harvey Weinstein and Philip Roth, discussed below. Read his comments here. Harvey Weinstein can be said, definitively, to be several things: Formerly one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, a Jew, and unemployed. He can be very substantively alleged…
Donna Karan, a fashion designer who is surprisingly not known for designing long-sleeved dresses that go all the way down to your ankles, defended Harvey Weinstein on the red carpet Monday evening by suggesting that women nowadays are “asking for trouble.” “I think we have to look at our world and what we want to…
Fashion designer Donna Karan defended Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein by suggesting women who dress provocatively are “asking for it.” Weinstein’s other famous female friends Meryl Streep and Judi Dench condemned the film producer over a series of recent sexual harassment allegations against him. The board of the Weinstein Company fired Weinstein, its co-founder, Sunday after…
White supremacists on the “alt-right” are gleefully jumping on accusations that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed employees and actresses for decades as “evidence” of their anti-Semitic worldview. Pointing to Weinstein, some on the far right say his story illustrates that Jews have a perverse and degenerative effect on American society — and are contributing…
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