The unkindest cut
This week in the NJJN:
Reporter Elaine Durbach recalls her childhood in once hopeful Zimbabwe.
Schechter closes a day school campus in Union County.
I explain why Eric Yoffie is only half-right about John Hagee.
The publisher of politickernj.com spins their creepy circumcision cartoon:
Bob Sommer, president of the Observer Media Group, which owns politickernj.com, disagreed. He is Jewish, as is Jared Kushner, owner of Observer Media Group.
“The cartoon was about the use of power, and the senator and the congressman adeptly used their power to the senator’s benefit,” he told NJJN. “That’s what the cartoon is about and any adept reader would understand that.”
Asked why, then, the cartoon included elements of the politicians’ religion, Sommer said, “Both the senator and the congressman are proud of their religion, and it was a humorous use of how they use their power.”
JustASC is written by Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the 