Reportedly, he also had a “Jewish countenance.”

The socialist in the back of shul.

Too many Communists in the kitchen—making blintzes.

“Developing the manhood” of American Jews or rendering Judaism vacuous?

The Jews of Squirrel Hill didn’t follow their coreligionists elsewhere into the suburbs.

It didn’t go as planned, but it did help new immigrants.

The kosher-industrial complex.

At the urging of German Jewish leaders.

Mordecai Manuel Noah’s Ararat.

The U.S. has a long history of anti-Semitism, but it’s always been different.

Sidney Franklin, matador of the Torah.

And did so more than Gentiles with foreign-sounding names.

And the ephemerality of political correctness.

Sidney Shachnow, in memoriam.