Mark I. Pinsky has covered Southern politics since 1972 and is the author of “A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed.”
Mark I. Pinsky
By Mark I. Pinsky
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News Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who fought Holocaust deniers, dies
Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man. Whatever celebrity he achieved in life — winning a historic legal campaign against Holocaust deniers, seeing his life dramatized in a television movie starring Leonard Nimoy — he used to further the greater goal of keeping alive the memories of…
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News A candidate mistrusted by some in the Jewish community decries antisemitism — and apologizes
Nida Allam, a county commissioner running for Congress in a deep blue North Carolina district, has frustrated some in the Jewish community who say her criticism of Israel has crossed the line into antisemitism. But Allam — who has been billed as a potential future member of “the Squad,” the progressive cadre in the U.S….
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News Do Chabad’s gains on campus compete with or complement Hillel?
On a bright October Sunday morning, several hundred people gathered on the front lawn of a stately red brick building by Duke University’s East Campus. They were there to dedicate Chabad’s $3 million Fleishman House, designed as a spiritually welcoming home away from home for Jewish students. About a mile away, on the campus, stood…
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News Where the kitschy Holy Land theme park died, a medical facility will rise
The end of days for Orlando’s Bible-based theme park, the Holy Land Experience.was widely foretold. What no one expected was the form its afterlife would take. Consider: Holy Land was the vision of a Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Baptist minister. When low ticket sales and runaway operating expenses led to huge…
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News Were southern Jews in the civil rights era ‘inside agitators?’
T. K. Thorne’s book, “Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days,” challenges the accepted view that all Southern Jews stayed aloof from the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. In her introduction, Thorne quotes Larry Brooks, editor and publisher of Southern Jewish Life magazine, who observed in 2015 that,…
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News Nikki Fried announces run against Gov. Ron DeSantis: ‘This isn’t democracy – this is fascism.’
Florida’s State Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only Democrat holding statewide electoral office, as well as the only Jewish woman ever to win a statewide race, today announced her candidacy to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fried, 43, a South Florida attorney, acknowledged she has a steep hill to climb, presuming she wins the…
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News Can brash, Bronx-born Democrat Alan Grayson take down Marco Rubio?
As he has so often in the past, Alan Grayson is itching for a fight. For the second time, he is about to run against Florida’s incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. Grayson, 63, a pugnacious, progressive and former three-term representative from Orlando, is almost certain to join the Democratic challenge to Rubio in a…
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News As Aaron Rajman’s attackers head for trial, his rabbis remember a sweet ‘Tough Jew’
As more of Aaron Rajman’s accused murderers face trial, the slain young man’s rabbi remembers him a contradiction, a sweet but fierce cage fighter, a proud Jew with a puzzling dark side that led to his death. With two of the perpetrators in prison after taking plea deals, Palm Beach County prosecutors expect the remaining…
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