Oct 8, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy, Jewish Experiences
Published: The Good Men Project (October 8, 2015) When you’re a Jewish person who is willing to criticize the State of Israel, you quickly discover three things: To many other critics of Israel, the authenticity of your position will be constantly questioned. Indeed,...
Sep 22, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), Jewish Experiences, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues, Salon.com
Published: Salon (September 22, 2015), The Daily Dot (September 20, 2015) Is America ready to elect a Jewish president? Ann Coulter did her part to draw attention to that question this week, when she sent out a tweet many believed was anti-Semitic implying Republicans...
Jul 27, 2015 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Jewish Experiences, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: MSNBC (July 27, 2015) When Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed last weekend that President Obama would ultimately “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” the former Arkansas governor wasn’t being simply hyperbolic...
Jun 6, 2015 | Autobiographical, Jewish Experiences
Published: Good Men Project (June 6, 2015) Exactly 18 years ago on this day, I nearly died. A somewhat morbid reflection on everything that has happened since. As I’ve discussed in an earlier article, I was the victim of an anti-Semitic hate crime when I was...
Jun 4, 2015 | Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, Jewish Experiences
Published: Good Men Project (June 4, 2015) Some Men’s Rights Activists are blaming the positive media coverage of Caitlyn Jenner on the Jews. Yes, you read that correctly. For several weeks, I’ve been carefully preparing an article on a childhood experience that...
Apr 27, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Jewish Experiences, Race and Racism, Salon.com
Published: Salon (April 27, 2015) You know it's bad when you see how "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" is his most empathetic recent comedy. Adam Sandler is probably not a racist, but his movies definitely have a long history of racial insensitivity. If anything,...
Feb 27, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Jewish Experiences, Salon.com
Published: Salon (February 27, 2015) Nimoy transformed the classic intellectual self-questioning archetype into a dashing "Star Trek" action hero I suspect I can speak for most American Jews when I say: Before I’d watched even a single episode of “Star Trek,” I knew...
Feb 2, 2015 | Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Jewish Experiences, Race and Racism, Scandals
Published: Daily Dot (February 2, 2015) Prospective Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is well-known for his opposition to same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights causes, so recently he decided to protect himself from accusations of bigotry by relying on...
Jan 22, 2015 | Autobiographical, Jewish Experiences, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: Good Men Project (January 22, 2015) Matthew Rozsa explores the divided politics of the American Jewish community. ___ Although I recall a great deal about the day I was nearly murdered, my conscious memory has suppressed the few minutes during which my head...
Dec 17, 2014 | Gun Control, Jewish Experiences
Published: Good Men Project (December 17, 2014) Matthew Rozsa meditates on what we lost when Gabby Giffords was shot … and what we can still hope for. ___ It would be an understatement to say that I’m not an observant Jew. I don’t keep kosher, only periodically...