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Jun 24, 2018, 2:19 PM

Trump’s immigration policies are skin deep

In July 1942, French police, acting at the behest of their Nazi masters, rounded up over 13,000 Jews, herding them into the Winter Velodrome where they were confined for days virtually without food, water or sanitary facilities. The stadium,...

May 24, 2018, 1:02 PM

The caricaturist and the master: On Wolfe and Roth

The American writers who died within days of each other were both iconoclasts, one was quintessentially Jewish

Jan 14, 2018, 11:17 PM

Trump’s shithole slur: As American as the KKK

While Donald Trump has suffered opprobrium for wondering aloud at a White House meeting why he must tolerate immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than venues like Norway, critics should at least credit him for an aphorism that strikes a...

Dec 23, 2017, 10:44 PM

Now we’re tearing children from their parents?

Illustrative: A Border Patrol vehicle sits along the US-Mexico border wall on January 25, 2017, in San Ysidro, California. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Under Trump's doctrine, if you cross the border into the US with your family, the government will take your children

Nov 6, 2017, 1:21 PM

The Judeo-Christian values of Trump’s America

Donald Trump’s decision to phase out the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals program has sent a wave of fear through the almost 700,000 young people covered under the initiative. Brought here illegally as children, they have grown up as Americans....

Oct 29, 2017, 3:37 PM

America’s fertile soil for authoritarian rule

America's long history of intolerance enables the rise of a Steve Bannon's extremism

Oct 12, 2017, 2:55 PM

Trump, the Earth, and the lost lesson of Genesis

The annual reading of the Torah has come full cycle and, once again, we begin at the beginning with the story of God creating the heavens and the earth and all they hold. The process culminates with the creation...

Sep 6, 2017, 12:29 PM

Rescinding DACA and Jewish history

The Dreamers' fate will indicate how dark America's immediate discriminatory path

May 11, 2017, 11:59 PM

Is there room for Confederate memorials in the public space?

The decision of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to remove four Confederate monuments from public display following the murder two years ago of nine blacks in a Charleston church by a white supremacist has drawn the ire of some...

May 2, 2017, 3:20 AM

Trump and the Civil War: No, slavery was not fading away

Why did we need the Civil War? Couldn’t we just have worked things out amicably without the need for all that carnage? So wondered Donald Trump in an interview with the Washington Examiner scheduled to air subsequently on Sirius...

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Jack Schwartz is a former book editor of Newsday.