I'm a proud African American woman & am not offended. It depends on who writes it & their relationship with both groups. If this headline had been written in the late 50's-60's in the American south it would be taken as racist because both groups were persecuted there & it would probably have been written by some bigot offended by their success & looking for a lawn to burn a cross on. The words Jew & black are not in themselves offensive. If you substituted "Two Spaniards and a German....." there'd be no problem. It's just that Jews & blacks have been discriminated against & the words have become associated with racism. I read the whole article & race was hardly mentioned til the very end.

Israel is the Jewish homeland & many Holocaust survivors live there.If they want to call attention to their people's accomplishments then so be it. What Lezak did was totally awesome & had me out of my seat screaming.And I thank them for giving my people credit too ! I'm immensely proud of Cullen Jones & the whole team!

I'm a proud African American woman & am not offended. It depends on who writes it & their relationship with both groups. If this headline had been written in the late 50's-60's in the American south it would be taken as racist because both groups were persecuted there & it would probably have been written by some bigot offended by their success & looking for a lawn to burn a cross on. The words Jew & black are not in themselves offensive. If you substituted "Two Spaniards and a German....." there'd be no problem. It's just that Jews & blacks have been discriminated against & the words have become associated with racism. I read the whole article & race was hardly mentioned til the very end.

Israel is the Jewish homeland & many Holocaust survivors live there.If they want to call attention to their people's accomplishments then so be it. What Lezak did was totally awesome & had me out of my seat screaming.And thanks for giving my people credit too ! I'm immensely proud of Cullen Jones!

First of all, the true headline reads "Two Jews and a black man help Phelps fulfill Olympic dream". The difference is not big but I believe that it should be cited correctly.

Second of all, I'm an Israeli and I would like to say that the meaning of the headline (and the last paragraph of the article from which it was taken from) was not to offend anyone (it was written by a jewish journalist for an Israeli newspaper yes?) but to show a sort of magnificent ethnic teamwork that brought a wishful Olympic medal to the U.S team and to Micheal Phelps. A wonderful achievement for mankind as a unified one and the Immigration nation which is the United States of America. Nothing less, Nothing more.

On the lighter side of things, perhaps another meaning of the headline is to show that jews and black people are good swimmers (since jews are thought to be not very good in sports and blacks are considered afraid of water).

Anyway you look at it, its a celebration of success for all and nothing else.

I am an Israeli who also lived for many years in the US. Now I live in israel. The article simply is a fact, isn't it. Two Jewish fellows and an African American fellow helped Phelps achieve his dream. Nothing wrong with emphasizing this fact. In fact, its quite a unique situation that has to be appreciated, not denounced, a kind of "bond" of all people to achieve a goal. Isn't it a wenderful thing. I wish we all could do the same in real life.