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1977 was the year punk rock — lead by its (mostly) Jewish standard bearers, the Ramones — exploded out of New York’s Lower East Side. But a full year before the Ramones urged us to “eat Kosher salami,” another group was bragging that they “knocked ’em dead in Dallas…they didn’t know we were Jews.” That group […]

Here’s the story of some Jews who escaped the dangers of the Holocaust–and headed straight to the tropics. In 1938, leaders of 32 countries convened in the French vacation town of Evian, where they intended to decide what to do with the legions of Jews fleeing Germany. Of the 32 countries represented, 31 said they couldn’t […]

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