“No matter whose side history is on, Jews have always been expendable. And so long as we are expendable, to talk of ‘Jewish power’ is obscene.”
January 23, 2020
"Anyone who has followed the disintegration of the civil rights alliance in recent years knows that open conflict was inevitable. Blacks and Jews in this country have been on a collision course for more than a decade"
January 23, 2020
"It would be a tragic and immoral mistake to identify the mass of Negroes with the very small number that succumb to cheap and dishonest slogans, just as it would be a serious error to identify all Jews with the few who exploit Negroes under their economic sway."
January 19, 2020
“Only by creating loyalties to something more universal than our immediate tribe — to ideas and values like community, tolerance, pluralism, and equality — can we begin the process of reciprocity and reconciliation between blacks and Jews.”
Originally published March 20, 1984
“Jewish children in years to come may live much like my parents, with a subtle but consuming sense of dread. America could yet turn out to be not so different from the Old World my grandparents fled.”
January 4, 2020
For hijab-wearing women in New York, every subway platform is a danger zone
July 25, 2018