The changing prejudice Jews face in America

(JNS) - To paraphrase a French maxim: "The more things stay the same ... the worse they get."

At least, as far as antisemitism is concerned.

This thought came to me early one recent morning, while I was channel switching my TV at home. I came across a broadcast of "Gentleman's Agreement," the ground-breaking 1947 movie, starring Gregory Peck, about discrimination against Jews in post-World War II, post-Holocaust, supposedly enlightened American society.

The film, in which Peck portrayed Philip Schuyler Green, a non-Jewish magazine journalist who posed as a Jew to investigate the extent of anti...