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“The Ally” arrives at a propitious, yet extremely delicate, moment.
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled “Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself.”
“The Ally” arrives at a propitious, yet extremely delicate, moment.
For a nation with 333 million people and boasting the world’s longest continuous democracy, there’s nothing super about our political process.
If Israel is going to rid itself of Hamas once and for all, it will have to make it quick.
It’s time for more people to stand with Selma Blair.
A crime wave has been crashing down on our once serene city on the Hudson. The menace in the air is palpable.
Rifts are so great, differences of opinion so irreconcilable, the house should be condemned.
How comfortably are American Jews sleeping these days? Does Oct. 7 haunt any of them?
Isolated and encircled from all sides by neighbors and fiends that mean them harm, no nation of its size and population deficits has ever had to cope with so many forces arrayed against it.
A play and a movie are rare cultural sightings these days: they showcase Jews as victims.
Biden has actually performed like a Zionist since October 7.