African-Americans

"My Negro Problem—and Ours" at 50 Norman Podhoretz, Commentary. "Ellison was right to excoriate me for my dismissive attitude toward black culture, and my Jewish critics were right to take offense at my questioning whether the survival of the Jewish people was worth the suffering it entailed."

Brothers in Arms Michele Alperin, JNS. Shut out of prestigious colleges in north-east America, Jewish academics fleeing wartime Europe found refuge in black colleges—as a forthcoming exhibit in Philadelphia reveals.

America's Most Hated David J. Rusin, National Review. Despite fears of a rise in Islamophobia, FBI records for the last decade show that fewer Muslims per capita have been the victims of hate crimes than homosexuals, African Americans, or Jews.

Nostalgia with a Jewish Soul Diane Cole, Jewish Week. Michael Chabon’s latest novel conjures up the alternative reality of a San Francisco unspoiled by the tensions that complicate today’s relationship between Jews and African-Americans.