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Oct 19, 2023, 10:24 AM

Jenna Ortega: Antisemite or useful idiot?

Jenna Ortega at 2022 Comic Con. (Chris Roth; used under a Creative Commons license)

With more than 40 million followers on Instagram, what she says about Jews matters. And what she’s been saying has been bad

Jan 31, 2023, 10:49 AM

A Society of Baruch Goldsteins

Palestinians Demonstrate on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre. Photo by Mustafa Bader - CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

On February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, armed and wearing his reserve uniform, walked into Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs and found a room in which dozens of Muslims were praying. Provoked by nothing but his own madness, he lifted...

Jan 8, 2023, 11:52 AM

Jenna Ortega did the right thing. Will others?

In December, two articles appeared here asking which type of antisemitism was more dangerous for Jews: the kind promoted by Kanye West or Jenna Ortega. The comparison surprised many. The fallen-from-grace hip hop artist Kanye openly loves Hitler, while...

Dec 28, 2022, 8:08 PM

Jenna Ortega becomes Hamas poster child, Jewish organizations silent

Jenna Ortega, courtesy Walt Disney Television under a cc by-nd 2.0 license

In a further illustration of what happens when people with seemingly good intent spread propaganda about things they don’t understand, Jenna Ortega, the American actress who rose to fame as Wednesday Addams on the eponymous Netflix series, has become...

Dec 14, 2022, 10:48 AM

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Jenna Ortega vs. Kanye: Whose antisemitic hate is worse?

Surely the actress should feel cognitive dissonance in implicitly supporting Hamas, and also praising Planned Parenthood and the heroic women of Iran

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Daniel Margolis is a US-based journalist, writer, educator, and fundraiser. He now works in the private sector and writes on a freelance basis. His work has been published in various publications, and he contributed to the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, published by Oxford University Press. Margolis is also a member of the board of his synagogue and of the governing board of the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts.

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