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We once escaped a 'Plot Against America.' Can we now?

Before MLK told us he had a dream, a Newark rabbi advised us not to remain silent | Opinion

The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz

Gangsters vs. Nazis: How the Jewish Mob fought American admirers of the Third Reich

Emboldened by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, and fueled by the Great Depression, anti-Semitism increased throughout the United States, and over 100 anti-Semitic organizations sprung up across the country. They had names like the Friends of the New Germany (Nazi Bund), the Silver Shirts, Defenders of the Christian Faith, the Christian Front, …

Racist Interstates? Revamping some of the national highway system makes sense --- but basing those decisions on vague notions of social justice is not the way to do it

The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert The Interstate Highway System, which the U.S. began constructing in the 1950s, has a complicated legacy, to say the least. Boosters see it as the greatest infrastructure program undertaken in the country during the second half of the twentieth century, connecting vast areas in new and important ways, unlocking largely untapped regions outside of cities that helped spark a new kind of middle-class living. Detractors accuse the system s planners and builders of emptying out cities and encouraging the rise of low-density suburban sprawl. That process, critics argue, prompted white flight to the suburbs, while stranding poor minorities in urban neighborhoods disfigured by the highways that bisected them. To these critics, the Interstate Highway System is just another example of America s racist past.