https://youtu.be/i_edl6Sv8Vc Two of New Jersey’s Democratic congressmen are calling for urgent action to combat antisemitism and hate crimes. They spoke Monday at a hearing in Teaneck, Bergen County of the House Committee on Homeland Security that focused on the dramatic…
Hos Loftus was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in a Muslim family. Today he is a neurologist living in North Carolina with his wife, Zainab, and their four-year-old son Jehan. After the attack on the Colleyville, Texas synagogue last…
In the final chapter of this series, Father Coughlin disappears from the public eye, but his legacy lives on. When Coughlin stages a high-profile protest episode, the church finally gives him an ultimatum: his radio career or the priesthood. The…
Faced with political defeat, Father Coughlin drops all pretense at diplomacy. He plagiarizes Joseph Goebbels in his Social Justice magazine and writes fan letters to Mussolini. His Kristallnacht broadcast gets him kicked off major radio stations. He incites his followers…
Huey Long’s folksy populism wins over Louisiana voters and becomes darkly demagogic. Picking up where Long leaves off, Father Coughlin and his National Union for Social Justice energize the anti-FDR base at massive political rallies across the country. The Social…
President Roosevelt embraces radio while distancing himself from Father Coughlin, whose broadcasts are becoming increasingly antisemitic. Coughlin rants about the Rothschilds and singles out Roosevelt’s Jewish secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., while the Jewish community debates how to…
Father Coughlin responds to the chaos of the Great Depression by creating a clear villain for his audiences: President Hoover, of course, but also the bankers he claimed controlled politicians and the communists he said were secretly infiltrating the country’s…
Father Coughlin’s decision to broadcast his sermons over the radio scandalizes the American listening public, with angry letters pouring in to radio stations and politicians. Preaching on the dial next to Amos ’n’ Andy was sacrilegious, inappropriate, crass. But soon…