Published on Fri, 08/23/2019 - 3:20pm
Years ago, Frank Rich, the legendary New York Times columnist, wrote a piece — channeling his grandmother — on the first question her generation used to ask when big news broke: Is it good for the Jews? Or (more often) is it bad for the Jews?
You could hardly blame them. Living through the Holocaust makes the question painfully relevant.
But a habit is a habit.
I will never forget my mother’s first words when John Kennedy was shot: “Thank God it wasn’t a Jew.”