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My Message to Douglas Emhoff for his White House Roundtable on...
“We must fight in a strategic and firm way, without giving the haters the massive publicity they crave. It is that publicity, as much as anything else, that normalizes antisemitism."
Why It’s OK to Talk About the Moral Differences Between Societies
About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed.
Bibi’s Extreme Challenge
In exchange for their support, the three ultra-conservative parties who have allied themselves with Netanyahu’s Likud have demanded a range of concessions from him.
Can We Retire the Word “Shiksa”?
In my junior year of college, I dated a Jewish man named Lucas. Things were going well. We’d go out to the movies and...
Agnon’s Great American Story
English was not his language, America was not his landscape, and the story of America was not part of his literary oeuvre, but in 1967 – on his first and only trip to America – Israeli author S.Y. Agnon stood before 1000 Americans and told them his version of the American story.
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