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Jun 22, 2018, 1:24 AM

Trump’s Border Separations and The Holocaust

As the son of a French-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was herself but a child when the Nazis marched into Paris, nothing brings me closer to fury than the tormenting of helpless kids by adults. The image of little children at...

Jun 10, 2018, 11:38 PM

Six Million and One: Susanna Feldman’s Murder

In today's online New York Times there is no current mention of Susanna Feldman's rape and murder by an Arab in Germany. The only reference is two days old, found back-page, among the backlogged news. In the first of those...

Jun 10, 2018, 2:53 AM

A New York Times Hate Crime

The NY Times headline reads: “A Girl's Killing Shakes Germany's Migration Debate.” That debate, however, is not what is shaking Jewish lives the world over. Rather it is the fact that Susanna Maria Feldman, a 14-year-old girl from Mainz near...

Jun 10, 2018, 12:54 AM

A New York Times Hate Crime

The New York Times headline reads: “A Girl's Killing Shakes Germany's Migration Debate”. That debate, however, is not what is shaking Jewish lives the world over. Rather it is the fact that Susanna Maria Feldman, a 14 year old girl...

May 23, 2018, 12:24 AM

Israel’s Morality of Survival

Israel's very existence is, historically-speaking, an improbability. To say that Israel exists still feels, seventy years after its declaration of independence, like the modern resurfacing of some long-submerged ancient mythical realm, Atlantis say. It is the rebirth of a...

May 18, 2018, 9:56 AM

The Hamas Zombie Death Cult Pogrom

Its the stuff of nightmare we've only seen in Zombie flicks (think World War Z, Mad Max:Fury or Night of the Living Dead): homicidal berserkers in rampaging waves fall upon a peaceful group who must repel the horde with all...

Nov 1, 2017, 8:23 PM

The ‘New York Strong’ Bull

Now will begin the NEW YORK STRONG messages. Yeah, except for the dead, right? You can't stay strong when you're dead. Poor dead people. They want so much to be strong but they just can't do it because death...

Apr 24, 2017, 7:59 PM

To Marine Le Pen: My Mother’s Arrest By French Police

In response to Marine Le Pen's claim that French police were not responsible for the deportation of Jews to the Velodrome D'hiver, Drancy and Auschwitz, I offer this eyewitness account by my mother, nee Marie Jucht, a French Jewish...

Nov 14, 2016, 2:05 AM

We are outlaws in the eyes of America

On Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, millions of Americans awoke to find ourselves Outlaws. Latinos, Gays, Blacks, Jews, Women, Muslims, Veterans, Progressives, the Handicapped, who had gone to sleep Tuesday night hopeful that the compassionate national embrace of Difference launched under...

Nov 5, 2016, 9:47 PM

Trump’s War On Women

I think it's pretty clear that the powers-that-be don't want a Woman to serve as President of the United States. Is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton's fast-gaining opponent, Donald Trump, is someone whose gruesome violation of the dignity of...

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About Me

Alan Kaufman is an American-Israeli novelist and memoirist. His books include the novel Matches and the memoirs Jew Boy and Drunken Angel.