OUR BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER:

Flash Traffic: Binyamin Jolkovsky, head of JewishWorldReview.com is becoming one of the most influential political editors in the country. (Joel C. Rosenberg, 11/09/02, World)

Most Americans don't know the name Binyamin Jolkovsky. But he's becoming one of the most influential political editors in the country. Mr. Jolkovsky runs JewishWorldReview.com, which he founded in 1997 in his "little attic in Brooklyn." It's a provocative and unconventional potpourri of conservative social and political analysis mixed with Orthodox Jewish columns, Torah readings, and eclectic features like "Jewish Juke Box" and "Wandering Jews."

"I've met Jerry Falwell," Mr. Jolkovsky says. "I like Pat Robertson. I don't agree with them theologically. But they are far more representative of my political and social ideas than some radical, far left-wing, secular, atheist nut case who just happened to have been born to a Jewish mother."

The invaluable Jewish World Review is just one example of how people of different faiths are discovering they have far more in common with each other than they do with people who may be similar in merely ethnic terms. This marks the triumph of ideas over race and is a significant difference between the Right, increasingly universalist, and the Left, increasingly racialist.. Posted by Orrin Judd at November 1, 2002 12:17 PM