Muslims Getting Profiled? What About Jews?

Trigger warning: This column may offend some readers. It concerns profiling of Muslims (for terrorism) and of Jews (for espionage). The issues aren’t as different as you might wish. Proceed at your own risk.

Let’s begin with New York dentist Gershon Pincus. A Brooklyn-born Orthodox Jew, age 62, he applied in 2013 for a part-time job fixing smiles at a U.S. Navy facility upstate, in Saratoga Springs. He wanted, he later wrote in an affidavit, to “assist those who serve” in the U.S. military. In mid-2014 he began the once-a-week, 400-mile round-trip commute, while maintaining his Big Apple practice.