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Marc Davis

Marc Davis
Marc Davis grew up in the Old Country (Brooklyn), where he learned to love the Mets. His mom makes perfect chicken soup, and his dad forced him to listen to Mickey Katz records. Marc spent 28 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. He lives in Virginia Beach with his beautiful wife, Sharon.

“Hang That Jew Or We’ll Hang You!”

May 1, 2013

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One of the most horrific episodes of anti-Semitism in American history – the lynching of Leo Frank – began 100 years ago last week. On April 27, 1913, a night watchman found the bloody body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in a factory basement in Atlanta. Police arrested the superintendent, a New York Jew named Leo Frank.…

The First—and Only—Jewish Miss America

March 18, 2013

In September of 1945, just after the end of World War II, a young woman…

Happy…Sylvester?

December 31, 2012

Have you ever heard an Israeli refer to their “Sylvester” plans and wonder what they’re…

The Plot Against America

December 17, 2012

Political zealots had a field day during the…

Fagin the Jew

November 20, 2012

The antihero of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist is the ”villainous-looking and…

Dream of Scipio

November 19, 2012

When you think of Provence you probably think…

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

October 5, 2012

Theodore Suess Geisel is best known for the…

Did Ulysses S. Grant Hate Jews?

July 4, 2012

In the middle of the Civil War, then-general Ulysses…

Mahler on the Couch

June 8, 2012

Gustav Mahler was a brilliant composer, and a bit…

An American Childhood in Egypt

June 1, 2012

Sipping from the Nile, a new memoir, tells…

The Excommunicated City

May 31, 2012

The city of York, England, is a vacation…

Killing Jesus with Rhyme

May 22, 2012

In a rap battle, participants lyrically insult each…

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