With “X-Men: First Class” cleaning up at the box office, JTA presents the following video in which JTA’s editor in chief, Ami Eden, examines the eerie parallels between Professor X and Magneto and the lives and post-Holocaust philosophies of Rabbi Irving Greenberg and Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Eden first tackled these themes in a 2003 article for the Forward — and received an enthusiastic response from one of his subjects.
