In a normal election year, it would be big news: one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the U.S. fooled by a small cadre of internet trolls into publishing a completely false piece about a GOP presidential candidate. In a normal election year, a story like that would dominate the ...
Mel Gibson is back, and that's bad news for the Jews! August 25th marks the release of Gibson's much-anticipated "comeback" film, Blood Father, in which the former A-list, boffo-box-office romantic lead takes the Breaking Bad approach to mending a soiled image, portraying a gruff ...
In my previous column, I mentioned, somewhat in passing, the importance of being aware of one's own biases. While the average human can never truly be bias-free, and keeping in mind that some biases are less unfounded than others, it's nevertheless helpful to be honest with ourselves about whatever ...
During my years as a GOP organizer and activist, I never really gave the alt-right much thought. In my time, the establishment neocons I worked with faced an entirely different threat: the Ron Paul crowd. You remember them, right? They had that "revolution/love" bumper-sticker thing going ...
I have to admit, I"ve never minded being the only Jew in a room full of anti-Semites. To be surrounded by people who sincerely believe you have preternatural inborn powers and abilities is actually quite the ego boost. When dealing with the segment of the alt-right that isn"t terribly fond ...
Attempting to successfully perform the plays of Shakespeare at an all-black high school was challenging, to say the least. In the spring of 1985, I starred in Merchant of Venice to a week's worth of empty houses. I"d wanted to do Richard III, because my own real-life form of villainy ...
In September 2004, for the crime of having a massively blocked sewer line under my property, I was condemned to the worst fate a creature of the L.A. Westside could face"I had to move to the Valley. Thank God it was only temporary, while a hundred Mexicans wielding a hundred shovels made my ...
Last week, the 2016 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) concluded its weeklong series of screenings here on the L.A. Westside. It's always a special time when the LAJFF comes to town, because when else are you going to see Jews in Beverly Hills? I didn"t attend any movie screenings (I was ...
Emperor of the North, the classic 1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich, details the dysfunctional relationship between train-hopping hobos and the railroad men who kill them. It's the kind of totally unique "70s film that could not get made today, a film in which the male leads are masculine, ...
To put a new spin on the old put-down of vegans, how do you know if you"re a member of the alt-right? Don"t worry"if you"re not, someone will tell you in the comments section. Alt-rightists love being able to cry "he's not one of us!" Milo Yiannopoulos? He thinks he's one of ...
